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Is Ebola Compensable Under Workers Compensation?
Beyond healthcare workers, not many employments will qualify for workers compensation protection due to Ebola. Two tests must be satisfied before an illness or disease can be considered occupational ...
How to Unlock ‘Trapped Limits’ in Your Reinsurance Program
An insurance company that purchases three $100 million layers of property-catastrophe coverage may find it is short of coverage if three $200 million events occur, even though the total coverage ...
The Drones Are Coming to Insurance Claims
After a catastrophe hits, mobile units filled with adjusters are on site with the claimants to evaluate property damage. Flash forward five years and insureds may never meet their property claim ...
Putting Out the Fire at Fireman’s Fund
FROM THE ARCHIVES: A VINTAGE CARRIER MANAGEMENT ARTICLE FROM 2014. Five CEOs in seven years, a revolving door of senior leadership that is making rating agencies and the entire insurance industry ...
SCOR Well Placed Despite Challenging Market, Says CEO Kessler
The reinsurance industry faces several headwinds related to macroeconomic and industry burdens, but SCOR is well placed to handle these, according to Denis Kessler, chairman and chief executive ...
Practical ORSA Solutions for Challenged Insurers
After much anticipation, Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA) initiatives are now underway worldwide—taking effect in 2014 in Canada and 2015 in the United States, with similar initiatives ...
Insurers Wary of ‘The Cloud’ Have Options for High Performance Models: AIR COO
Immediacy is the new norm in today's business environment, and catastrophe risk management is no exception. The insurance industry is increasing its use of catastrophe modeling to inform business ...
Following the Science on Fracking, the Environment and Human Health
Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) combined with horizontal drilling has unleashed a huge oil and gas boom in the United States and redrawn the world energy map. But could this new technology result in ...