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Executive Viewpoint: Climate Protection Requires Tech Innovation
The warning could not be more urgent. According to a recent assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), our world now risks missing the target for limiting global warming to ...
Underwriting Wildfire Risk
The 2021 California wildfire season continued the worrying trend of more extreme fires than the historical norm. As of December 12, 8,786 wildfires had destroyed over 2.5 million acres, about 1 ...
Resolve Not to Resolve; Make SMART Goals Instead
Why do so many resolutions not make it past the first week of January? Are people just less tenacious than they used to be, or do people just expect to break them? As we seemingly rush headlong ...The 12 Days of Christmas with Majesco P&C Core Suite
It's officially the holiday season. Everywhere you go you will hear Christmas carols and one we all know – whether you celebrate the holiday or not – is the 12 Days Christmas. You know, the one ...Distribution Management: A Path to Maturity
In the 1993 movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray plays a Pittsburg broadcaster stuck in a loop, replaying the same day, February 2, over and over. The screenplay, written by Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis, ...Efficiency meets effectiveness in personal auto risk indicators
Personal auto underwriting expenses challenge many insurers to balance high costs, which can undermine profitability, and cost-cutting measures that may obscure the view of risk. This dilemma has its ...Earthquake Risk and Modeling: What Changes are Coming
Our understanding of earthquake risk is ever-changing. Over the past two decades, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) has released five iterations of the National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM), ...
Writing Commercial, Specialty Lines for Startups: Q&A With Vouch Execs
When InsurTech Vouch announced in September that the company is developing embedded insurance to make buying commercial insurance more accessible for its customers—high-growth technology companies ...