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Women’s History Month: Honoring Women in the Insurance Industry
When Barbara Bufkin started in the insurance industry nearly four decades ago, she didn't think about women's roles. She started her career as a commercial underwriter, then a casualty facultative ...
COVID-19: On Disrupted Loss Reserve Diagonals and Lengthening Tails
It's axiomatic to assert that the coronavirus has changed everything both personally and professionally. Going forward, it'll be our aim at Assured Research to strike a balance. No one, of course, ...
Leading Through Crisis
As of this week, many companies are finding they have begun to quickly execute the business continuity plans they have developed and documented in order to address the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. ...
Flood Insurance Is an Opportunity, Not a Liability
Insurers are gun-shy about writing flood policies, and who can blame them? With faulty prediction models, seemingly ever-changing target flood zones and a track record of unpredictable claims, many ...
From Hurricanes to Pandemics: Do Your Agency Partners Have Continuity Plans?
It's something that small agencies don't like to think about, but disaster can mean the loss or passing of key personnel. Here, Roland Chan, founder and CEO of FindBob, an InsurTech that helps ...
Using Behavioral Economics to Improve P/C Insurance Outcomes
The sensors in your house track your habits and convey them to your insurer, who underwrites your homeowners policy. A customer signs an "honesty pledge" and then reports a claim to the insurer. ...
CIO Checklist: COVID-19 Highlights Need to Revisit Continuity Plans
The importance of well-documented business continuity and disaster recovery plans has reached new urgency with insurers. Natural disasters and cybersecurity issues are on the rise, and new threats ...
A Good Piece of Advice About Assessing a Change in Roles
Karen White, CEO of RMS, said one of the best decisions in her career was to join Oracle, which took her career on a different trajectory. At the time, in 1993, she had a very secure position as CEO ...