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Workers Compensation: Waning Benefits From Decreasing Opioid Rxs
Workers compensation has been a profit juggernaut for the property/casualty insurance industry over the past several years.
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Social Inflation Hits Insurers, Not Economies
You know things are bad when the term "nuclear" is deemed inadequate to describe the rise in legal verdicts against corporations.
What About Genomics and Workers Comp?
William Wilt and Kirk Hartley, the authors of the accompanying article, "Have Insurers Paid Too Much for Asbestos and Other Toxic Torts?" recently published a research note, in a Q&A format, ...Reserves and Inflation: Insurers Got This!
According to an analysis of loss reserves published in mid-March by Assured Research, 2021 marked the 16th straight year that the U.S. P/C industry's loss reserves developed favorably—by about ...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 ...Telematics: It’s Not Just for New Business Pricing Anymore
GEICO had the right idea about following Progressive—and the majority of top auto insurers—into the world of telematics, but the benefits of the technology go well beyond matching rate and risk ...Loss Reserve ‘Conservatism’ Will Shape the Pricing Cycle
According to our analysis of loss reserves published in mid-March, the year 2020 marked the 15th straight year that the U.S. property/casualty industry's loss reserves developed favorably—by about ...Industry Loss Reserves Redundant by $28B: Assured Research
Analysts at Assured Research delivered some surprises in a report on property/casualty insurance industry loss reserves Monday, finding that reserves are $28 billion redundant and predicting that ...COVID-19: On Disrupted Loss Reserve Diagonals and Lengthening Tails
It's axiomatic to assert that the coronavirus has changed everything both personally and professionally. Going forward, it'll be our aim at Assured Research to strike a balance. No one, of course, ...