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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 ...
A Surprising Way to Achieve Price Competitiveness
How can a company liberate itself from the death spiral of product commoditization? Competing on price is generally a losing proposition—and a very exhausting way to run a business. But when a ...
The Uberization of Insurance and Pac-Man
Much has been written about innovation in the insurance industry as well as Google's Compare, USAA's recent participation in Compare, Liberty Mutual's venture with Nest, big data, etc. What is really ...
Workers Comp Underwriting Profit Possible as Trends, Reserve Quality Improve: Fitch
Traditionally one of the most challenging underwriting segments in the U.S. commercial lines insurance market, workers compensation has experienced a meaningful turnaround in performance from large ...
Too Much Capital, Too Little Return
Finding attractive investment opportunities is a familiar challenge in a world of low to negative yields, tight spreads and high equity prices. In this year's Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) ...
What the Future Holds for Catastrophe Modeling: Aon’s Impact Forecasting
Technologies are rather like bicycles. Just as riders must continue to move forward or risk falling down, so too designers of catastrophe models are moving full speed ahead to stay on course, experts ...
Getting Well Soon: The Next Trillion-Dollar Industry for P/C Insurers?
Sleeping on the job has never been a fast track to success, but sleeping on the way to the job may lead to an early and unscheduled retirement. More than 1 in 5 fatal car accidents in the United ...