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2nd Act: From Commercial Airline Pilot to AXA XL’s Head of Aerospace Claims
Like most of us in the insurance business, Tom Vargo, AXA XL's claims manager-Aerospace, did not grow up wanting to be an insurance executive. He was fascinated with airplanes and wanted to be an ...
How to Characterize Emerging Risks for Liability Modeling
This is the second part of a two-part article. In the first part, we defined a framework that can be used to classify both systemic and emerging risks. Here, we focus in on how this framework can be ...
Workers Compensation: Past, Present and Future
The workers compensation system is healthy and strong. On behalf of the National Council on Compensation Insurance, it feels great to be able to say that with confidence, especially as NCCI is ...
How to Model Systemic and Emerging Risks for Liability Risk Management
While insurers' use of models to analyze and quantify risk is well established in the property space, it's becoming increasingly important in the casualty space. The use of models in this area has ...
2nd Act: U.S. Air Force Cyber Operations Officer to CEO Cyber MGA
Vishaal Hariprasad, the chief executive and co-founder of a managing general agency specializing in cyber risk solutions, is known by the nickname "V8," a nickname he got during his days in the Air ...
Viewpoint: Closing the Gap on Insurance to Value in Property Policies
Inadequate valuation of physical assets in property policies results in a shortfall in premium collected, which in turn hinders the ability to rebuild fully after a loss. This is a problem for ...
Viewpoint: Why Activists Should Rethink Hard Insurance Exits From Fossil Fuel Underwriting
Insurers play an important role in helping protect families, businesses and communities as our economy transitions to a greener energy future. However, those protections are coming under increased ...
How Lawyers Sank Florida Carriers — and Target ‘Travellers’ With SEO
A troubling phone exchange reveals a problem for insurance carriers that started in Florida and is expanding beyond the state's borders, according to an actuary who recalled the dialogue at a recent ...