Insurance Regulation
PCI Backs NAIC Flood Insurance Reform Agenda
Property/casualty insurers are throwing their weight behind NAIC proposals that includes long-term reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program and also an expanded private market that ...
Western European Insurers, Hammered by Low Interest Rates, Slow to Revamp Investments
Insurers in Western Europe have generally stayed the course with their investment mixes in recent years, even as they've been hammered by record-low interest rates, Standard & Poor's Global ...
New Capital Rules Poised to Transform Kenya’s Insurance Industry
A push by Kenyan regulators to clean up the East African country's insurance industry is poised to trigger stake sales or exits by underwriters unable to meet the new capital requirements, according ...
A.M. Best’s ‘A-‘ Rating Not as Good as It Seems: Fitch Analysis
Fitch Ratings warned Tuesday that users of insurance ratings from four large credit rating agencies (CRAs) fail to understand differences in the rating scales—differences that separate A.M. Best ...
EY CRO Survey Preview: Evolution Toward True ERM
With regulatory requirements intensifying and endless technological advances, senior risk management executives for property/casualty insurers face a complex and shifting landscape. As a result, many ...
Insurance Matters for Police Reform: University Researcher
Liability insurance may be a "neglected backdoor route to police reform," according to a researcher from the University of Chicago. John Rappaport, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago ...
Insurers Seek Influence on Next Round of Transatlantic Trade Negotiations
Insurers are doing what they can to shape the next negotiating round for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which is set to begin the week of July 11. The TTIP is designed to boost ...
More Regulatory Uncertainty: Coping With Brexit
Have you ever been skydiving? If, like me, you're a newbie with a healthy fear of jumping out of an airplane thousands of feet above the ground, the trick is to never quite believe it's going to ...