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Clinical Trials and Insurance: Carriers Adapt to Unique, Evolving Demands
Clinical trial liability insurance has been around for more than two decades. But as the development and testing of new drugs has gone global, risks in the sector are growing and also becoming more ...
Small Business Opportunities Hiding in Plain Sight
Sometimes, opportunities really do hide in plain sight. In 2007, I was running ACE's wholesale E&O and D&O business when I noticed that all the small accounts sat on the underwriter's floor, ...
Genetic Markers May Fuel Next Wave of P/C Insurer Asbestos Reserve Hikes
Actuaries and casualty insurance company financial officers who are not tuned into the revolution occurring in molecular biology may be blindsided by the next influx of asbestos claims, according to ...
Measuring Embedded Portfolio Profit With Predictive Analytics
Predictive analytics rapidly is emerging as a must-have tool in the insurance carrier's arsenal. However, in most common applications, the power of advanced analytics is deployed from the bottom up: ...
Meeting the Challenges of Self-Service Insurance
As the global economy evolves and changes, insurers must also evolve to provide information and access to their clients across a wide range of channels if they are to avoid being left behind. ...
Stress Testing Your ERM Initiative: Is It Delivering What You Need?
Solvency regulation has entered a new phase in the insurance industry as in-depth, forward-looking insurer self-assessments replace reviews of past balance sheets in states where Own Risk and ...
Retention With Profit: Best Practices for Auto Underwriting
"Every generation needs a new revolution," noted Thomas Jefferson, and in present times it seems that several revolutions are joining forces in the insurance world. The recent innovations of ...
How Insurers Can Wield Social Media to Attract Millennial Customers
Bloomberg has reported that the rate of home ownership in the United States is at its lowest level in 20 years and the number of first-time buyers entering the market is at an almost 30-year low. The ...