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How an Iowa Mutual Insurer Recovered From Financial Storms
When Iowa mutual GuideOne Insurance began assessing ways to add an infusion of capital to strengthen its balance sheet, the company went to the usual places a mutual of its size might turn to for ...
Bad Cops No More: Friendlier Auto Insurers Needed for Telematics Future
Radical changes in marketing and product design of auto insurance policies will help unlock customer benefits of sharing driving data, a well-known insurance telematics evangelist advised during a ...
A Telematics Future: Don’t Forget Insurance Agents
During a recent interview, Matteo Carbone, director of the IoT Insurance Observatory, described a new set of approaches, modeled on the success of South African insurer Discovery, which U.S. auto ...
A View Into the Future of Car Insurance: When Driver Scores Replace Credit Scores
Offering a view into the future of auto insurance, the leader of a mobility data and analytics firm said during a recent interview that he foresees a time when drivers will know their driving scores ...
Are Captives the Answer for Uninsured HOAs? Utah Opens Door
When actuary Greg Fears attended a Western Region Captive Insurance Conference in April, he expected to learn and share information about emerging uses of captives for commercial risks, including ...
PFAS by the Numbers: $165B Ground-Up* Litigation Losses Possible
When Frank Demento received a mailing from managers of his water district on Long Island last year, the news it contained seemed pretty good. The level of a harmful chemical, perfluorooctanesulfonic ...
Judgment Day
In May 2022, a judge at the U.S. District Court in Texas ruled that IBM had breached a 2015 licensing agreement signed with a competitor, BMC Software Inc., awarding BMC more than $1.6 billion in ...
Middle Manager Is the Middle Child
The middle child breaks up fights, mediates disputes, and smooths the differences between older and younger siblings. They carry the weight of family responsibilities and often don't get the ...