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‘Urgent Need’ to Understand Single Points of Failure in Digital Supply Chains: Report
The rise of cyber risk accumulation events has highlighted the need for cyber insurers and reinsurers to understand single points of failure (SPoFs) within their customers' digital supply chains, ...
CSE ‘Runoff’ Prompts Downgrade, Withdrawal of AM Best Ratings
AM Best announced that is has downgraded and withdrawn the financial strength ratings of CSE Insurance Group's Civil Service Employees Insurance Company and CSE Safeguard Insurance Company, ...
GEICO Lays Off 6% of Workforce; Will Require More In-Office Time
In a letter to employees, GEICO president and chief executive officer Todd Combs said the Berkshire Hathaway company is laying off 2,000 associates, or about 6 percent of the workforce. "This will ...
E-Scooter, E-Bike Injuries Up 21% in 2022
Injuries associated with micromobility devices increased nearly 21 percent in 2022 from 2021, a new report released by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) shows. Micromobility-related ...
Calculating Targeted California Returns on Surplus
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) 2022 Report on Profitability by Line and by State provides a comparison of the rates of return on net worth for the last 10 years (through ...
Permitted After-Tax Returns for California Insurers (2012-2021)
Since reinsurance costs are ultimately a substitute for direct costs of capital, we can better understand the ratemaking process in California by understanding how companies are allowed to ...
Rebuilding the California Property Market: Reinsurance Costs and Recent Reforms
In November of last year, Allstate paused writing new homeowners policies in California. State Farm, the state's largest homeowners writer, stopped accepting new applications for insurance back in ...
Improved Auto Insurance Results Coming—But Not Soon Enough: S&P GMI
Strong rate hikes fueling nearly a 16 percent in direct written premiums for U.S. private passenger auto insurers will bring the industry combined ratio down from a "worst-in-decades" result for ...