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World’s Largest Reinsurers: AM Best’s Latest Ranking…sort of
Every year around this time, AM Best publishes a single list of the "World's 50 Largest Reinsurers," ranked based on unaffiliated gross premiums recorded in the prior year. The latest installment, ...
How an Iowa Mutual Insurer Recovered From Financial Storms
When Iowa mutual GuideOne Insurance began assessing ways to add an infusion of capital to strengthen its balance sheet, the company went to the usual places a mutual of ...
What Liability Insurance Underwriters Should Know About Microplastics
Plastics. What was once the pithy career advice memorably offered in the movie "The Graduate" has some potentially noteworthy similarities to one of today's most ...
Top 5 Technology Predicaments Facing Insurance Leaders
As insurers look for ways to navigate evolving risks, some have pinned their hopes on generative AI (GenAI) as a quick fix. But allegations of faulty algorithms rendering unfair denials have fueled ...
Is Liability Reinsurance Headed for a Tumble?
In early June, Ken Brandt, chair, president and chief executive officer of TransRe, sounded the alarm on brewing troubles in the liability reinsurance market that could ...
Brazen $30M Los Angeles Cash Heist Explained
A brazen Los Angeles cash heist on Easter weekend in which thieves cracked a safe and got away with as much as $30 million is believed to be one of the largest such heists in U.S. history. The heist ...
They Should Take the Picture: How P/C Insurers Should Respond to Photo Flak
My interest in all things property/casualty insurance prompts my smartphone to serve up lots of news from across the nation about carrier activities—local news clips and mainstream media articles ...
Study of Flooded EV Batteries Raises Safety Questions
An examination of electric vehicles damaged by Florida floods raises questions about the "stranded energy" contained within their batteries, according to researchers at the Idaho National Laboratory. ...
Results Too Good? Swiss Re Boosts Reserves ~$1B Amid Surprises
Lower than expected catastrophe losses in the second quarter helped fuel nearly $1 billion in net profit for Swiss Re during the period, and a 16 percent jump in profit to $2.1 billion for the first ...
GenAI: Why Many Insurance Companies Are Getting It Wrong
Since November 2022 when OpenAI brought LLMs and GenAI to the broad public, I have discussed AI with more than 100 insurance companies, both big and small. Nearly every one of them has conducted at ...
The High Cost of Negative Consumer Perception
Let's talk some truth. Of all the challenges the insurance industry is facing today, chief among them is the reality that insurance is becoming very hard for people to ...
Allstate Approved to Raise Home Insurance Rates by 34% in Wildfire-Prone California
Allstate Corp. is set to increase home insurance rates for California customers by an average of 34.1 percent, marking the biggest jump in premiums for a major insurer in three years as the state ...
Bad Cops No More: Friendlier Auto Insurers Needed for Telematics Future
Radical changes in marketing and product design of auto insurance policies will help unlock customer benefits of sharing driving data, a well-known insurance telematics evangelist advised during a ...
Underwriters Wary of PFAS Amid ‘Superstorm’ of Litigation, Regulation
As litigation and regulation increase around per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), insurance underwriting is tightening across lines. Insurance professionals who ...
How to Innovate in Homeowners Insurance
When the chief executive officer of Plymouth Rock Home Assurance spoke to Carrier Management in mid-July, it just happened to be on a day that online shoppers of books, ...
2024 U.S. Weather Disasters Stack Up
The U.S. has sustained 395 weather and climate disasters since 1980 where overall damages/costs reached or exceeded $1 billion (including CPI adjustment to 2024). According to the National Centers ...
How to Grow Profitably in Seven Steps: Sharpening Risk Appetite Is One
Insurers and reinsurers that achieve spectacular returns on average equity have seven common characteristics, according to Aon, which analyzed the performance of 100 insurers and reinsurers to ...
Challenges in Insurance Claim Fraud Management
A new Verisk survey highlights the pressing concerns and emerging trends shaping the future of property/casualty insurance claim fraud detection and prevention. The ...
Commercial Lines Not at Top of Cycle; ‘Thieves’ Fuel Social Inflation: CEOs
It's not waning market discipline but the scourge of social inflation that industry leaders of commercial lines insurance businesses see as a potential threat to future profits, a trio of ...
A Tech Bridge for the Talent Gap in Insurance Claim Fraud Detection
The property/casualty insurance industry faces a critical staffing challenge when it comes to uncovering fraud in claims, while also enabling swift claim processing to ...
Fire Risk Prompts Recall of Nearly 463,000 Kia Telluride SUVs
Kia America is recalling nearly 463,000 Telluride SUVs — and urging owners to park their cars outside and away from other structures until an issue posing a fire hazard is fixed. The front power ...
Lemonade Exec: AI Getting the Right Claims to the Right Adjuster
AI Jim, the chatbot that handles claims for InsurTech Lemonade, is renowned for its ability to handle claims in seconds. Two seconds to be exact. That was the time it took the chatbot to settle a ...
U.S. P/C Insurance Industry Posts First H1 Underwriting Profit Since 2021
The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry recorded a net underwriting gain of $3.7 billion and net income of $94.6 billion for the first-half of 2024, according to a new report. "After years of ...
Tesla Blasts Off to Top P/C Insurance Growers Chart
While personal lines insurers reported double-digit rates of direct premiums written growth in 2023, some relative newcomers to the segment—including Tesla Insurance—saw triple-digit leaps ...
A Telematics Future: Don’t Forget Insurance Agents
During a recent interview, Matteo Carbone, director of the IoT Insurance Observatory, described a new set of approaches, modeled on the success of South African insurer Discovery, which U.S. auto ...
A View Into the Future of Car Insurance: When Driver Scores Replace Credit Scores
Offering a view into the future of auto insurance, the leader of a mobility data and analytics firm said during a recent interview that he foresees a time when drivers ...
Ransomware Attacks, Payments Grow Globally: Report
Attacks by new ransomware groups, including PLAY, Medusa, RansomHub, INC Ransom, BlackSuit and some additional lesser-known factions, eclipsed the first quarter of this year by 16 percent and the ...
Predictive Model Delivers Insights as Insurers, Reinsurers Brace for More Civil Unrest
Insured losses from civil unrest can reach levels equal to some natural catastrophes—and the costs are growing every year. Of particular concern this year is the ...
Hard Reinsurance Prices Likely to Last Longer Than in Previous Market Cycles: Report
Hard reinsurance pricing conditions are likely to last longer than in previous market cycles mainly due to persistently high claims activity from the accumulation of medium-sized disaster losses and ...
Viewpoint: Generative AI in Insurance Isn’t Working
The insurance industry is at a pivotal moment in embracing generative AI. According to the ISG Pulse Check State of the European Insurance Industry 2024, insurance firms are actively engaged in ...
Frequency of Deadly Hurricanes Has Jumped 300%
New research indicates that what used to be the 100-year hurricane will now happen every 25 years, according to Deep Sky Research, a Montreal-based carbon removal project developer. The new report ...
Prospect of Hurricane Seasonal Forecast-Miss Rising: Moody’s
Robert Muir-Wood, chief research officer of Moody's, has attended the Rendez-Vous de Septembre many times over the course of a more than 25-year career in catastrophe modeling. But he's hard-pressed ...
Study: MGA Market Still Growing
A hard market combined with underwriting capacity from fronting companies allowed for robust growth in the MGA market in 2023, according to a new Conning strategic study. The global investment ...
Has Driving Behavior Changed?
If you're feeling less safe driving on the nation's roads than you used to, it's not your imagination, according to Gary Hallgren, president of Arity, a B2B mobility data ...
CrowdStrike Failure Highlights Potential Aggregation Risks for Reinsurers
The unique, evolving and often volatile nature of cyber risks has always lurked beneath the surface as the cyber insurance premium climbed in recent years.
Some environmental activists have turned to demanding insurers immediately stop underwriting and investing in fossil fuel projects, believing this will help solve climate ... Given the difficult environment for primary property/casualty carriers, the efficient use of excess and surplus (E&S) lines capacity is providing a safety valve for ... Now that the market has achieved a first-half profit of £4.9 billion with a combined ratio of 83.7—its best interim results in 17 years—does this mean the hard ... Just a few weeks before Carrier Management's third-quarter edition went to print, a shooting incident took place at a Butler, Pa., rally for former President Donald ... It's time to update the traditional performance review, which focuses largely on how the employee performed the prior year and whether they met agreed-upon goals and ...
Executive Viewpoint: Reason Over Rhetoric
Surplus Lines Insurers Providing a Much-Needed Safety Valve for P/C Industry
Hard Market ‘Supercycle’ Likely to Be Prolonged: Lloyd’s CEO Neal
Converge Insurance CEO Talks Focus, Innovation and Perseverance
Converge Insurance CEO Tom Kang said one of his most important pieces of advice for other InsurTechs is a seemingly obvious but often overlooked point, and that is to remember the insurance part of ...
Berkshire’s ‘Most Important’ Biz Drives Q1 Results; GEICO Still Behind on Tech
Berkshire Hathaway continued to deliver eye-popping results for its insurance and reinsurance operations during the first quarter of 2024, with underwriting profits for personal auto insurer GEICO ...
AM Best: Unfavorable Operating Performance Key Driver of Downgrades
Deteriorating market conditions and rising loss costs led to a 60 percent increase in rating downgrades of AM Best-rated U.S.-based insurers in 2023 compared with two years earlier, according to a ...
Cyber Resilience Lessons from the CrowdStrike Outage
Imagine arriving at London's Heathrow Airport only to find your flight merged with two others and chaos reigning supreme with baggage scattered everywhere. This was the real-life impact of the recent ...
Underwriting in a Politically Charged Climate
Americans Shop Around for Insurance More Than Ever as Costs Soar
Americans are seeking to change their insurance coverage more frequently than in the past, after a surge in premiums that's squeezed household budgets, a new industry report shows. For car insurance, ...
U.S. Drivers Spent a Work-Week Sitting in Traffic Last Year: Research
New York City, where drivers lost 101 hours to traffic congestion last year, topped INRIX's 2023 Global Traffic Scorecard, the transportation data and analytics reported recently. The firm's report ...
Put Motivation Back Into Performance Reviews
Construction Defects Are Not Covered Property Damage in Commercial Liability Policy
A home builder is not covered under the property damage coverage in its commercial liability policy for construction defects for which it was responsible. A three-judge panel of the Massachusetts ...
Main Street America Insurance Exits Personal Lines
Main Street America Insurance said Thursday it will stop offering personal lines insurance in favor of a commercial lines strategy. The Jacksonville, Fla.-based insurer founded about 100 years ago in ...
Insurers to Play a Critical Role in Pioneering Ethical AI: Report
A new report explores insurers' cross-industry opportunity to influence the responsible development, use of artificial intelligence (AI) and help establish regulatory best practices. The report, ...
Liability Reinsurance Crisis Could Be Looming, CEO Says
"There could be a liability crisis in reinsurance in a couple of years," a reinsurance executive predicted this week. Ken Brandt, chair, president and chief executive officer of TransRe, offered the ...