Insurers Have Their Say
California's growing availability crisis is poised to get worse unless changes to ratemaking beyond the introduction of forward-looking catastrophe modeling take ...
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Safer From Wildfires
Commissioner Lara's new regulation, California Code of Regulations Section 2644.9. Consideration of Mitigation Factors; Wildfire Risk Models, effective Oct. 14, 2022, ...
The Pros and Cons of Going Private
In the days before hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb decided to drop its buyout of SiriusPoint, Carrier Management asked analysts at AM Best and Fitch Ratings about the pros ...
CEO Reflections: Thoughts on Long-Term Leadership
I was initially hesitant when asked to share my thoughts on leadership.
A quick Google search will yield thousands of entries—books, ...
About Anthony J. Kuczinski
Anthony J. "Tony" Kuczinski served as chief executive officer of Munich Re US P&C Companies from 2008 through 2022.
He retired from ...
13 Product Development Questions
There are a host of questions that insurance executives should ask themselves concerning product development. Here are a "baker's dozen" product development questions that could form a beginning set ...Getting to Know Church Mutual
Church Mutual is the largest insurer of religious institutions in the country, with a history dating back more than 120 years. The company insures houses of worship, human services organizations, ...
Getting to Know Baloise Group
Located in the heart of Europe, with its head office in Basel, the Baloise Group is a provider of prevention, pension, assistance and insurance solutions. Its core markets are Switzerland, Germany, ...
Race as a Control Variable
One way to minimize proxy discrimination in multivariate pricing models is to introduce a "control variable" representing a protected class to the analysis. Birny Birnbaum explained the approach ...