Regulation & Compliance
U.S. Insured Property Values Reach New Heights and Cluster in Coastal Regions
U.S insured property values as of 2014 exceed $90 trillion, but the bulk of that is increasingly concentrated in vulnerable coastal areas. With that in mind, new risk metrics could better help ...
Arizona Law Cuts Taxes for Insurers
Arizona is set to reduce taxes for insurance companies under a new bill Gov. Doug Ducey signed into law Monday. The tax cut is expected to mean the loss of more than $44 million to the state's ...
How the P/C Insurance Industry Can Increase Ethical Behavior
Although 90 percent of property/casualty insurance industry representatives say their industry is largely an ethical one, they believe that the public doesn't see the same picture. And ethics in the ...
U.K. Insurance CEO Agrees to Incentive Pay Cut After ISS Complaint
Aviva Plc's Chief Executive Officer Mark Wilson and the chief financial officer lowered their long-term bonuses after Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. was said to have raised concerns over ...
A.M. Best’s New Capital Model Still a Work in Progress
Changes to A.M. Best's capital model are in the works, but the form they will take is still unclear—even to Best analysts working to test possible metrics for this key component of ...By The Letters: Multiple Insurance Regulators
As the regulators and other entities influencing the regulations of U.S. insurance companies have multiplied around the world, it's become harder to keep track of them. Andy N. Mais and David S. ...
Strategies for Coping With a Tsunami of Regulations
Once upon a time, insurance regulation for U.S. companies was pretty straightforward. But then came 2008. Things changed. The influencers if not the direct regulators of U.S. insurance companies have ...
USAA Follows State Farm With Commercial Drone Test Plans
USAA plans to start testing drones as a tool to help speed review of insurance claims after natural disasters. The insurer announced on April 6 that it obtained Federal Aviation Administration ...