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The Chicken and Egg of Employee Engagement
Are happy, engaged employees a driver of business success or merely a consequence of it? Plenty of studies have identified a link between employee engagement and company performance. One of the most ...
Does Analytics Mark the End of Underwriter Influence?
Underwriting is the secret sauce of the insurance industry. The process of selecting and pricing risk is essential to the profitability of a carrier, and the deep expertise necessary for this skill ...
Brace for Impact: ‘Agile’ Leaders Needed to Reshape Insurance Industry, Educators Say
Disrupters such as the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, the sharing economy and fintech are reshaping the insurance industry and those who lead it. So when Carrier Management asked a sampling of ...
Not All ‘Optimization’ Is Price Optimization; Allstate’s CGR Proves It
"The purpose of price optimization is to extract as much profit as possible from policyholders, who are often required to purchase insurance policies," according to a February 2015 press release from ...
An Accident of the Rating Process: Allstate’s Cure Explained
In Part 1 of this article series, I described cost-based pricing used by actuaries, which includes business judgment—introducing differences between the technical price indication for a book of ...
About Those Rates: Why Allstate’s Rating Program May Not Be What It Seems
Actuaries occupy a quiet, arcane world, their debates obscure: Loss development factors: weighted vs. straight? Premium impact: parallelogram vs. extension of exposures? Reserve methods: chain ladder ...
Verifly CEO Seeks to Carve Out ‘On-Demand’ Niche in Drone Insurance Market
The idea of drone insurance would have been far-fetched not that long ago. Enter entrepreneur Jay Bregman, a longtime drone and radio-controlled aircraft enthusiast. He's the CEO and co-founder of ...
Cyber Risk and the Threat of the Unknown
As new technology is developed and digital applications are rapidly becoming more prevalent, cybersecurity continues to be an evolving risk and a potential loss area for insurance companies. The ...