workers’ compensation News
QBE Faces $1.2B in ‘Unprecedented’ Natural Catastrophe Claims for 2017
QBE announced to the market this week that it expects a $1.2 billion after-tax loss in 2017 on "unprecedented" natural catastrophe claims. "This has been a challenging year for QBE, reflecting an ...
Q3 U.S. Commercial Insurance Prices Remain Flat Once Again: Willis Towers Watson
U.S. commercial insurance prices stayed virtually flat in the 2017 third quarter, the ninth straight quarter where this has happened, according to a new Willis Towers Watson survey. Prices averaged ...
Fla. Puts Workers Comp Carrier Guarantee Insurance in Receivership
Florida insurance regulators have placed workers compensation carrier Guarantee Insurance Co. in receivership due to inadequate reserves. According to documents from the Florida Office of Insurance ...
AmTrust Raising $950M by Selling Stake in Some Businesses to Private Equity Firm
AmTrust Financial Services will make about $950 million by selling a majority equity interest in some of its U.S.-based fee businesses to private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners. Barry Zyzkind, ...
Beacon Mutual’s New CEO Spero: ‘We’re Within an Hour of Every Policyholder’
The board of directors of Beacon Mutual Insurance Co. has elected Brian Spero as president and CEO of the company, effective in July. The Warwick, R.I.-based workers compensation carrier's board ...
Aon Partners With InsurTech CLARA to Deliver AI Claims Tools for Workers Comp Insurers
Aon Benfield has teamed with CLARA analytics to deliver artificial intelligence tools to workers compensation insurers in the U.S. to help employees return to work as quickly as possible while ...
42% of Workers Comp Premiums Set to Evaporate by 2030 as Jobs Get Automated
Piggybacking on the research of academics and researchers who studied the impact of automation on jobs a few years ago, two insurance analysts recently calculated an important impact for workers ...
Q3 Commercial Lines Rates a Mixed Bag: MarketScout and IVANS
The MarketScout and IVANS commercial insurance market indexes are revealing a mixed bag in terms of rates for the 2017 third quarter. First, the MarketScout composite rate index for commercial ...