Costs of Small Business Cyber Attacks Are Down But Frequency Is Up, Says Hiscox
The less-than-encouraging news: Only 33 percent of U.S. small businesses consider cyber risk high or very high.
The somewhat encouraging ...
Commercial Lines
Prepare for the Soft Market: Why You Need to Set Performance Metrics Now
On the face of it, it appears to be a good time to be an underwriter. A combination of historic underperformance, an elevated risk outlook and investor reticence is encouraging underwriters to push ...
U.S. Commercial Lines Survey Shows Aggregate Q3 Increase of 6.1%
Commercial insurance prices for the U.S. increased 6.1 percent in the third quarter, maintaining an upward trend. According to the latest results from WTW's Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey ...
AM Best Maintains Stable Outlook for U.S. Property/Casualty Commercial Lines
Persistently strong underwriting performance during and after the global pandemic – despite substantial economic and capital markets volatility – has prompted AM Best to maintain its "stable" ...
AXIS Capital Sponsors First Cyber-Catastrophe Bond Issued in Public Debt Markets
For the first time, a cyber-catastrophe bond has made its way into public debt markets. Long Walk Reinsurance Ltd. issued a $75 million so-called cat bond, sponsored by AXIS Capital, to insure ...
Q3 2023 Signals Six Years of Premium Increases for Commercial Lines: CIAB
Overall commercial property/casualty premiums increased slightly more than 8 percent on average in the third quarter, marking six full years of steady increases. According to The Council of Insurance ...
Repeat, Repeat and Repeat Again: How The Hartford Embeds IoT Capabilities in Commercial Insurance Businesses
The world is progressively witnessing heightened interconnectedness. Sensors present in physical objects capture data and link to digital communication networks. The data ...
2024 Outlook on the MGA Market: Time to Normalize Difficult Conversations?
The insurance industry experienced widespread and significant tightening in the reinsurance markets in 2022. "Volatility" was the watchword as the year 2022 wound down. Reinsurers raised prices, ...
Mobility Trend: Consumers Prefer AV Deliveries Over Robots, Drones
With Amazon aiming to make 10,000 deliveries with drones in Europe this year and Walmart planning to expand its drone delivery services to an additional 60,000 homes this year in the states, ...