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Allstate Buys Downtown Chicago Office Building After Selling Northbrook Campus
The Allstate Corp. has acquired an office building in downtown Chicago months after agreeing to sell most of its campus in Northbrook, Ill. Allstate confirmed it purchased the property at 29 N. ...
Secondary Perils Are Increasing Share of U.S. Catastrophe Losses
Secondary peril events such as wildfires, tornadoes and severe thunderstorms are becoming more impactful and generating an increasingly larger amount of insured losses, affecting the bottom lines of ...
Data Points: Attorney Impact on Commercial Auto Losses
Commercial auto insurance loss severity rose about 5 percent per year during the five-year period ending 2019, as the proportion of claims that had attorney involvement increased to nearly 30 ...
Why ADAS Drives Claims Severity Higher (It May Not Be What You Think)
When auto insurance executives talk about claims severity trends across the industry, a common theory they advance is that repairs on vehicles with expensive advanced driver-assistance systems ...
Tech Bytes: New Partnerships at Co-operative Insurance Companies, BTV, RepairPal
Betterview, an InsurTech serving property/casualty insurance companies, announced that Co-operative Insurance Companies selected Betterview's Remote Property Intelligence Platform to help reduce ...
Travelers Leaning Into AI, Tech as Earnings Rise
Reviewing the 2021 highlights of both a final quarter and a year that saw Travelers deliver double-digit returns-on-equity, the company's chief executive focused on technology investments aimed at ...
American Financial Group Acquires InsurTech Verikai in $120M Deal
American Financial Group (AFG) acquired Verikai Inc., a machine learning and artificial intelligence company that utilizes a predictive risk tool for assessing insurance risk, effective December ...
How Zurich Commercial Uses Underwriting Discipline to Find Profit in Any Market
Zurich Insurance Group has worked hard to turn around its financial results over the past five years by bringing underwriting back to the organization, with a greater focus on selecting the right ...