Regulation & Compliance
The Value of Cybersecurity Frameworks in Insurance
The insurance industry is built on data—sensitive financial, health, and personal data—and must do everything in its power to protect that data from criminals. This requires protecting business ...
Another Big Insurer Stops Writing Florida Homeowners
The Florida property insurance market is showing more signs of trouble, with one of the state's largest carriers deciding to stop writing new homeowners business in the state—while also asking for ...
Hunter to Retire as CFA Director of Insurance
The man who served as the conscience of the property/casualty insurance industry for nearly three decades is retiring from a long-held post as director of insurance for the Consumer Federation of ...
AM Best Answers Questions as DUAE; MGA Assessments Go Live
It is not a credit rating. It will not impact an insurer's financial strength rating. Those were two of the answers that AM Best analysts delivered yesterday in various presentations about the rating ...
P/C Industry Profits in Current Cycle Lagging Last Hard Market
U.S. property/casualty insurers have benefited from significant increases in commercial premium rates for nearly three years. However, recent industry statutory underwriting performance improvement ...
Regulators Can Learn AI; New InsurTech Groups Will Help
It was the mid-1990s. Karen Clark's Applied Insurance Research and Hemant Shah's Risk Management Software were InsurTechs in their early stages of development—before the term for insurance ...
Reinsurers’ 2022 Profit Outlook Better Than Primary Insurers: Fitch
The trailing impacts of premium and loss trends on the books of property/casualty reinsurers makes the 2022 outlook for reinsurers rosier than the profit outlook for primary insurers, a Fitch Rating ...
D&O Insurance Specialist IDs a Fourth Variant of COVID Shareholder Suits
Even over a holiday weekend, alerts were hitting the newswires in advance of Jan. 3—the deadline for shareholders of ON24 to apply for lead plaintiff status in a lawsuit against the online event ...