Research
Beware of New Capacity Even as Cyber Insurance Market Soars: Fitch Ratings
The cyber insurance market continues to display both tremendous growth and enormous opportunity for the U.S. property/casualty insurance industry as demand continues to soar, according to a new Fitch ...
AI Could Boost Insurer Revenue and Jobs, But Resistance to Change Remains: Accenture
Artificial intelligence could create significant boost for insurers in both revenue and employment, but they risk missing out if they don't switch soon, according to a recent Accenture report. That ...
Recent Crashes Are Slowing Self-Driving Automobile Development
A series of high-profile accidents involving self-driving cars are slowing the mad rush into the autonomous vehicles business, according to a report issued Wednesday. The accidents, some of them ...
U.S. Customers Not Widely Aware of InsurTechs Just Yet: J.D. Power
InsurTechs may be trying to transform how carriers, brokers and agents do business, but customers aren't widely aware of their existence just yet, J.D. Power has determined. J.D. Power's 2018 U.S. ...
Cyber Insurance Is Quite Profitable at the Moment: PwC
Most carriers say that cyber insurance is quite profitable for them at the moment, and a majority are also using reinsurance to manage their exposures, PwC found in a new global survey of specialist ...
Carriers Still Don’t Get Dinged Much From Distracted Driving Costs: Analysis
Insurance companies are finally putting a price on the risk of distracted driving, and it's relatively cheap. Last year, a ticket for using a mobile phone while driving added $226 to the average ...
No Gender Pay Gap for CEOs at Large U.S. Corporations: University Research
The popular press regularly publishes articles about gender pay gap in the workforce, and it has recently started talking of a "female premium" in CEO compensation, according to research from the ...
Plenty of Reinsurance Capacity Remains for Mid-Year Renewals: Aon Benfield
Global reinsurer capital continued to rise in 2017, despite the $136 billion in insured losses from natural catastrophes last year, according to a reinsurance market report published by Aon Benfield. ...