Insurance Regulation
Root Debuts; Carrier’s Smartphone App Helps Good Drivers Get Cheaper Rates
Root officially debuts in the U.S. market on Oct. 25. The fledgling auto insurer, just 18 months old, relies on telematics and a customer's smartphone to deliver what it says will be significantly ...
Carrier Climate Change Risk Disclosure Has Improved: Ceres Analysis
Insurers in the United States are increasingly willing to disclose their risk management practices related to climate change, according to a new report suggesting that last year's global accord in ...
Will Big Data, Social Networking Scores Remove Risk-Sharing From Insurance?
When people take to Twitter to comment on the great evening they enjoyed with good food and wonderful friends, reducing their monthly insurance bill is probably the last thing on their mind. But such ...
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 ...
Insurers Optimistic About Latest Round of Covered Agreement Talks
Insurers say they are encouraged by the most recent developments in the covered insurance/reinsurance agreement negotiations between the United States and European Commission. Following the latest ...
For Good Measure: Connecting Corporate Strategy With Risk Tolerance
When early seafarers began to chart the world's distant corners for the first time, a crucial component to the required technology was measurement. Measures needed to be both accurate and practical. ...