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What Insurers Should Know About PFAS
Scientists faced a problem when the space race was heating up in the mid-20th century. They needed to develop materials to withstand the heat of atmospheric entry and corrosive effects of water when ...
Executive Viewpoint: When It Comes to Protection, It’s Time to Go on Offense
During my time playing wide receiver at the University of Northern Colorado, I learned firsthand there are a lot of advantages to being on offense. Being on offense is proactive. It means you know ...
How to Win Reinsurance Negotiations in a ‘Show Don’t Tell’ Hard Market
We need to talk about the cost of reinsurance. Primary property/casualty insurance carriers and MGAs are still squeamish following the most difficult January reinsurance renewals the industry has ...
Fact vs. Fiction: ChatGPT, Large Language Models and the Power of AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a hot topic for the past 10-plus years, enabled by constantly increasing adoption of cloud technologies and modern approaches to data management. Applications of ...
Which Came First, the Cyber Chicken or the Cyber Egg?
One of the biggest challenges for cyber insurers isn't predicting when an act of cyber war could occur but figuring out how to define cyber war in the first place. That's according to panelists at ...
Setting Up a Safety Nest: When Cheap Insurance Still Excludes Millions
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, there were tens of millions of Americans driving without insurance—a problem that the financial stresses of the pandemic may have exacerbated. Whether the ...
6 Emerging Risks to Watch: From Glacial Floods to More Destructive Wildfires
In this edition of Risk Alerts, we highlight toxins in children's makeup, glacial floods, pollution's impact on mental health, wildfires, food addiction and superbugs. Perilous play time. A study by ...
InsurTech Tackles Underserved Homeowners Market: Uninformed Buyers
Ian Gutterman doesn't think there's any underserved market of people who need cheap insurance. "There's plenty of that available," says Gutterman, a longtime investor and industry analyst, whose ...