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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 can then be analyzed, ...
Nationwide Insurance: Using a Decade of Learnings to Create Next-Generation Telematics Solutions
Telematics insurance has traversed more than two decades, cycling through phases of curiosity, dedication and subsequent disappointment. Only recently has the U.S. auto insurance sector acknowledged ...
Report: Auto Insurance Shopping Cools
The quarterly, year-over-year U.S. auto insurance shopping growth rate declined to -1.2 percent in Q3 2023, down from a 5.2 percent increase in Q2 2023, as rate increases and tightening budgets ...
A Turnaround Story: Boost People, Then Financial Results, Aspen CEO Says
The turnaround at Aspen Insurance Holdings—the result of a multipronged, multiyear effort—is bearing fruit with a return to consistent profits. Mark Cloutier, executive chairman and CEO, ...
Reinsurers’ Earnings Rise on Lower Disaster Losses, Improved Investment Results: Fitch
Lower natural catastrophe losses, better investment results and strong revenue growth in property/casualty reinsurance led to strong earnings' increases for the four main European reinsurers in the ...
Reinsurers Cautious About U.S. Regional Property Cat as Storm Losses Rise: Gallagher Re
After a costly 2023 severe convective storm season in the U.S., reinsurers underwriting in the regional property-catastrophe market are skeptical about providing frequency cover, but their overall ...
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, ...
Tesla Launched Its Own Car Insurance. These Drivers Say It’s a Lemon.
In February, Mark Bova purchased a used 2018 Tesla Model S. Before leaving the dealer, he bought insurance from Tesla, finding the initial $93 monthly premium "really reasonable." Sixteen days later, ...