Personal Lines
One in Four Young Adults Don’t Leave Home; Trend Rising
The share of young adults living with parents or other family members in the U.S. continues to grow in the aftermath of the most severe recession in the post- World War II era. A record 57 million ...
IBM’s Watson Teams Up With USAA on Customer-Facing Application
Fresh off of six months of training with a team from USAA, IBM's Watson is poised to answer questions from USAA's members in the first commercial use of the artificially intelligent computer as a ...
Colorado Regulators See Real Link Between Quakes and Wastewater Wells
Colorado regulators said on Thursday that the disposal of oil and gas wastewater at a well in Weld County likely caused a series of small earthquakes this year, in another sign that a U.S. drilling ...
Cat Losses Ding Travelers’ Q2 Net Income
The Travelers Cos. began 2014 with a bang, giving investors a first quarter of soaring net and operating income, thanks in part to a major acquisition. For Q2, however, higher catastrophe losses ...
Bain: Few P/C Outfits Excel at Both Attracting and Keeping New Clients
When it comes to building new business, the property/casualty insurance industry has split in two. Some companies in the marketplace are great at acquiring customers; others are brilliant at ...
Canadian Earthquake Cat Modeling Gets an AIR Worldwide Revamp
AIR Worldwide revamped its earthquake model for Canada, with updates covering seismicity, paleoseismic and active fault data, among other areas. Simply put, the Massachusetts-based catastrophe risk ...
Reserve Charge, Cats to Dent State Auto Financial Earnings; EMC Down on Cats
Midwest insurers State Auto Financial and EMC Insurance Group preannounced anticipated declines in second-quarter earnings last night, with catastrophe losses hitting both companies, and a ...
Cars Need to Think Like Humans to Drive Themselves; Pollution an Issue: Auto Scientists
Automakers intending to bring driverless cars to market need to work as much on software design as mechanical engineering, the researcher leading Nissan Motor Co.'s automated-vehicle program said. ...