Surveys
Commercial Insurance Remains a Buyer’s Market: Willis Towers Watson
Fluid capital and ample capacity has kept the commercial insurance sector stable overall and also a buyers' market. That reality holds despite potential regulatory and monetary policies pending in ...
Clunky M&A Deals Are Spurring Uptick in Insurance Claims: AIG Study
Faulty mergers and acquisitions have spurred an uptick in insurance claims as dealmakers overstated profits or breached accounting rules, insurer American International Group Inc. said in a study of ...
Commercial Lines Insurers Plan Predictive Modeling Embrace: Willis Towers Watson
Predictive modeling is becoming even more widespread among U.S. property/casualty insurers, with rapid gain likely in the coming years for commercial lines carriers. The big news: Two-thirds of the ...
Insurers Are Rapidly Adding ‘Virtual’ Customer Service Tools
Frustrated with automated answering machines before you finally get to speak with a customer service representative? When it comes to insurance, you'll just as likely end up dealing with a robot as a ...
Robot Surveillance Tech Could Aid Hurricane Damage Assessment, Other Risky Tasks
Cornell University researchers are developing a system to enable teams of robots to share information as they move around, and if necessary, interpret what they see. This would allow the robots to ...
Google Glass, Voice-to-Text Still Create Driver Distractions: Research
Manual-entry tasks such as texting cause slower reaction times and more eyes-off-road glances than voice-to-text input with smartphones and Google Glass. But all of the secondary tasks beyond driving ...
Cat Bond Issuance Hit $2.3B in Q1 as Market Habits Shifted: PCS
Catastrophe bond issuance reached $2.3 billion in the 2017 first quarter, a record level that landed slightly higher than the same period a year ago, the Property Claims Services Unit of Verisk ...
P/C Insurers See $ in IoT, Smart Home Tech; Limited Data Access Hampers Potential
Internet of Things and smart home technology offer significant growth potential for property/casualty insurers, but data access limits could restrict how big the boom becomes, according to a new ...