Robert Hartwig Archives - Carrier Management

As Homeowners Rebuild After Ian, a Cooling New Housing Market Drops Material Costs

If Hurricane Ian would have made landfall in Florida, say, six months ago, the costs of reconstruction could have been even higher than the already staggering estimates now coming from the Sunshine ...

Man-Made Crises Threaten P/C Markets, Says Joint Report From Trade Associations

Several insurance industry trade associations used the 30th anniversary of Hurricane Andrew—a storm that upended and transformed insurance and the manner in which communities prepare for natural ...

Are Reserve Releases Ahead? Appellate Ct. Ruling Seen Slowing COVID Suits

A federal appellate court ruling that dismissed a dental practice's COVID-19 business interruption claim might be the beginning of the end for policyholder arguments that income lost because of ...

How to Value an InsurTech

Next year, Chubb (tracing its roots back to the birth of the Insurance Company of North America) will turn 230 years old, an extraordinary feat of longevity that partly explains why it's the world's ...

Is Loop the Future of Automobile Insurance?

The annual ATECH Conference in Aruba is promoted as, "Where Tech, Innovation, and Creativity Meet to Become the Future." At the 2015 conference, two young tech entrepreneurs, Carey Anne Nadeau and ...

An Alternative View: Crediting Credit Scores

While InsurTechs like Loop and Buckle are trying to reshape the future of insurance without using credit scores to underwrite or price policies, the rest of the industry has yet to embrace the ...

Lemonade Aftertaste: Will Reinsurers Keep Covering Unprofitable InsurTechs?

The IPO of Lemonade in July highlights the value of leveraging ample reinsurance to move from startup phase to a public company, which the online provider of renters insurance pulled off in a scant ...

Commentary: Insurance Industry’s Chief Spokesperson Headed to the Halls of Academia

Whenever disaster strikes in the United States—be it economic, man-made or delivered by Mother Nature—the global media often contacts Robert P. Hartwig, the president of the New York-based ...

I.I.I. Picks Ex-Zurich Exec/Bush Administration Vet as New CEO

The Insurance Information Institute has chosen its new leader – an ex- public affairs executive for Zurich Insurance Group who also once worked for President George W. Bush's administration in ...

Slow 2015 Premium Growth Could Reflect ‘New Normal’ for U.S. P/C Insurers

For U.S. property/casualty insurers, net written premium still grew in 2015, but the rate of expansion is slowing, and the industry's collective combined ratio worsened slightly, according to a new ...