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How Parametric Triggers Can Allow Insurers to Cover Pandemic Business Interruptions
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused severe levels of disruption to economies around the world and has affected businesses of all sizes—and the insurance industry has been caught in the middle of the ...
Fountains and Drains
You're either a fountain or a drain. Funny thing is, you're not born that way. It's a choice you make each day when you wake up. How do you tell which a person is? Take an inventory of how that ...
Dynamic Planning Framework: How Carriers Can Deal With Uncertain Risks
Insurance companies have always been leaders in dealing with uncertainty. The difference today is that the threat environment has become more volatile. Climate change has made natural disaster ...
Not Every InsurTech Is a Startup: How Swiss Re Delivers Tech Solutions
It's not just InsurTech startups that have an edge on innovation. Some established reinsurers have developed their own analytics and technology divisions that offer a variety of InsurTech-type ...
How to Compute Car Insurance Discounts for Automated Safety: Enter Swiss Re
A car owner should be able to pay lower insurance premiums for driving a car with safety features, such as automated braking that stops the car when the driver is distracted or lane keep assist ...
COVIDigation Nation: Why So Many Cases? Are More Coming?
Let's get a few things out of the way. First, I am not a data scientist or an actuary. I am an attorney interested in data. More specifically, I am interested in using data from disparate sources to ...
Best Practices for Developing an Automation Mindset Across an Organization
With interest rates near zero percent, insurance carriers are facing a shifting paradigm. Investment income will not be able to drive return on equity alone, and the combined ratio will have to bear ...
The Big Picture: How COVID Should Change the Industry
Responding to a Carrier Management call for executive viewpoints, industry leaders told us how the pandemic has changed them. In addition, they shared ideas about how the industry should plan for the ...