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The Insurance Carrier Is Back in Fashion
As money began to flow into InsurTechs back in 2014 and 2015, these companies essentially fell into two categories: You were either a provider of technology to insurance companies or a distributor of ...
CNA Protected Its Brand With Quick Response to Cyber Attack: S&P
CNA's quick response to a cybersecurity breach that disrupted its network has helped preserve the company's brand and competitive position, Standard & Poor's concluded in a recent assessment. ...
Chubb Is Reportedly Exploring Hartford Acquisition
Chubb Ltd., the global insurer led by Evan Greenberg, is exploring an acquisition of Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. in what could be one of the industry's biggest deals in years, people ...
Chubb Bids for The Hartford’s ‘Crown Jewel’ and More
Five years ago, Evan Greenberg led ACE's nearly $30 billion acquisition of Chubb, morphing Chubb into its current status as a global property/casualty insurance giant he continues to guide as CEO. ...
Chubb CEO Greenberg Reiterates a Call for Litigation Reform
Chubb Chairman and CEO Evan Greenberg is reiterating a call for litigation reform nationally and at the state level to address what he said is a "systemic" worsening of the legal environment and its ...
Chubb Would Pay $23B for Rival Hartford in Massive Acquisition Deal
Chubb Ltd., the global insurer led by Evan Greenberg, proposed an acquisition of Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. for about $23.2 billion in cash and stock in what could be one of the ...
The Hartford Rejects Chubb’s $23B Acquisition Offer
Property and casualty insurer Hartford rejected a $23.24 billion takeover offer from larger rival Chubb Ltd on Tuesday, derailing what would have been the largest deal in the property and casualty ...
Lemonade CEO: Why Regulators Need to Engineer Equity in Insurance Prices
It takes a one-two punch to make insurance fair. I've previously argued that AI can vanquish bias in insurance, and so it can. But while machine learning can help ensure equality, it cannot ensure ...
Shareholder Class Action Complaint Filed Against InsurTech Root
With shares of Root Inc. trading at less than 50 percent of the late October 2020 IPO price of $27 per share, the InsurTech carrier has been named in a shareholders class action complaint, multiple ...
Betting On Founders: How VCs Spot InsurTech Unicorns of 2025
Carrier vs. MGA. U.S. vs EU. Specialty niche vs. traditional insurance lines. There are many things that distinguish one InsurTech from the next, including financial metrics like internal rates of ...
Assessing Delegated Underwriting Authorities, MGAs: AM Best Explains
Over the last decade, as insurers and reinsurers have sought profitable opportunities for growth, they increasingly have handed the underwriting pen to managing general agents, managing general ...
Feds Could Step in to Fix Racial Bias in Insurance Pricing
If the National Association of Insurance Commissioners doesn't act this year to correct systemic racial bias in insurance ratemaking and other processes, Congress may pass anti-discrimination laws ...
Why Chubb’s Bid for The Hartford Is a Personal Lines ‘Chess’ Move
While Chubb's $23.2 billion opening bid for The Hartford appears to be mostly a commercial lines play to many, one experienced industry observer has a different take on it. Chubb CEO Evan Greenberg ...
As MGA Growth Explodes, AM Best Unveils New Assessments Coming Soon
With the volume of premium generated by managing general agents and other delegated underwriting authority enterprises (DUAEs) rocketing skyward in recent years, AM Best had decided it's time to ...
Recapping 2020’s Insurance Numbers and What They Mean for 2021
The most recent tallies of financial results by rating agency analysts reveal that the property/casualty insurance industry weathered the storms of catastrophe losses and COVID, with one segment ...
CM Exclusive: Google’s Insurance Strategy Could Be a Game Changer
The announcement that Dr. Henna Karna, formerly global chief data officer at insurer AXA XL, had been retained by Google to lead a new insurance initiative was greeted by the insurance and InsurTech ...
2021: Another Year of Insurance M&A Challenges and Opportunities
2020 was a year of learning and innovation for those of us working in the field of insurance industry mergers and acquisitions. So far, it appears that 2021 will be another year of abundant ...
Wildfire Risk Plummets With 10 Feet of Defensible Space: Study
Wildfire risk across the western United States has become a challenging issue for the insurance industry. Heightened risk and extreme events are squeezing carriers and devastating consumers. As a ...
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 ...
CNA Struck by ‘Sophisticated Cybersecurity Attack’
CNA is investigating a "sophisticated cybersecurity attack" the commercial lines insurer said disrupted its network and impacted corporate email and other systems. The commercial insurer said it ...
The Power of Trust
Trust can be elusive. When someone is seen as being trustworthy, good things happen for that person and with that person. And the reverse can also be true; mistrust can form an invisible barrier to ...
How Insurers Can Tap Into the Peloton Phenomenon to Motivate Employees
Fitness enthusiasts have become obsessed with motivational apps and technology like the Peloton and Apple Watch phenomena. The consumerization of technology in our personal lives provides ...
Intelligent Automation in Loss Reserving: Why Actuaries Need Help From Robot Analysts
Among the many things that have changed how the actuarial field functions is an underlying movement to automate. By integrating cognitive computing capabilities into their actuarial processes, ...
The Inflation Specter Looms for Property/Casualty Insurers
Inflation, defined as the rate at which prices for goods and services are increasing, tends to occur when prices rise due to increases in production costs or when the demand for a product exceeds its ...
Lloyd’s of London Brokers Could Trade Pinstripes for Pajamas After Pandemic
When the pandemic is over, the brokers of Lloyd's of London could haggle with underwriters from home in their underpants, and ditch their pinstripes at the office. A trade body representing brokers ...
An Insurance Executive’s COVID-19 Survival Story
In early January 2021, Andrew Rear's health took a turn for the worse. After suffering two weeks with COVID-19, the 50-year-old former head of Munich Re's Digital Partners thought he was on the mend. ...
Property/Casualty Insurers’ Technology Goals for 2021
The onset and continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic made everyone—property/casualty insurers included—respond quickly and reevaluate their priorities. Now, as global premiums rebound, insurers ...
How to Increase Flood Insurance Take-Up Using Behavioral Economics Insights
Proper application of behavioral economics can improve take-up of flood insurance and narrow the protection gap. Sounds farfetched? Let's dig deeper. Behavioral economics is the study of psychology, ...
The Future of Underwriting Is ‘Exponential’: Deloitte Study
The underwriters of the future will need to be "exponential," multiplying their value by developing new skills and taking on enhanced responsibilities. This means evolving into new roles, such as ...
After Chubb’s Failed Hartford Try, Allianz Now Mulling Possible Counteroffer
Chubb Ltd.'s $23 billion takeover offer for Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has prompted Germany's Allianz SE to study the feasibility of a counteroffer, according to people familiar with the ...
How to Achieve True Digital Transformation in Insurance
Over the last several years, businesses across all industries have been busy implementing digital strategies and fundamentally changing how they operate and deliver value to customers. Yet, digital ...
Overall Wellness Is Attractive to Employers and Employees
As we mark the one-year anniversary of COVID-19 and the resulting social and workplace changes that it triggered, many things have changed. The work-from-home model is looking like it will be a big ...
A Spurned Chubb Says Hartford Isn’t The Only Fish in the Sea
Global insurer Chubb Ltd. today issued a statement that it is "disappointed that The Hartford chose not to engage in discussions regarding a strategic business combination." However, the disappointed ...
How Geospatial Analytics Are Helping Workers Comp Insurers During COVID-19
Even the most experienced insurance companies could not have prepared for COVID-19, leaving portfolios riddled with uncertainty for an indeterminate time. Perhaps no line of business has felt the ...
New Capital Not Impacting ‘Extraordinary’ 2021 Market: Berkley
External capital supporting new entrants to the property/casualty insurance and reinsurance markets is a "drop in the bucket" when measured against the magnitude of recent events, an industry leader ...
Connected Car Tech Creating Anxiety Over Cyber Attack Risks: Munich Re
Consumers are increasingly worried about cyber attack vulnerabilities with connected and automated vehicles, according to a new Munich Re/HSB survey. Approximately 37 percent of consumers responding ...
Walsh’s Goal at Google: To Make Cloud Operations ‘De Facto Standard’ for Insurance Industry
Nigel Walsh, the new managing director, U.S. Insurance for Google Cloud, has an ambitious goal for his new job. "My mission, together with the rest of the team, is clear," Walsh said. "We want to ...
Pandemic Risk: Finding the Opportunity in Liability
Liability insurers frequently use exclusions to help address emerging risks that are viewed as unpredictable, intractable and potentially very large. It comes as no surprise, then, that the emergence ...
Pie Insurance Raises $118M From Allianz and More
Pie Insurance has pulled in $118 million in new funding, with the workers compensation provider attracting financing from Allianz and others. Executives at the Denver-based InsurTech will use the ...
Life Insurance Next for Lemonade: Auto on the Horizon
Lemonade plans to start selling term life insurance in the next 90 days, adding to its current rental, homeowners and pet insurance offerings, the company said in an earnings report released late ...
Next Insurance Partners With Amazon to Boost Reach of Its Small Biz Insurance Cover
Next Insurance is turning to Amazon's business customer arm to boost the reach of its small commercial insurance policies. The InsurTech has formed a partnership with Amazon Business Prime where ...
Experts Say Insurers Focusing on Diversity, Inclusion Have No Time to Waste
Diversity and inclusion initiatives are vital for insurers that want to close the talent gap and tackle any branding issues the industry faces, and there is no time to waste. That's according to ...
CEO Reflections: Business Lessons From COVID-19, One Year Later
If COVID-19 has taught us any important business-related lesson in 2020, it is the importance of being agile. More than a mere business practice, this agile philosophy of quickly adapting to ...
Why Auto Insurance Companies Should Drop Credit Score
COVID-19 has exacerbated socioeconomic inequality and exposed vast racial and economic disparities in America. Millions have lost their jobs, and research shows that historically under-resourced ...
How to Lower Legal Expenses and Improve Litigation Outcomes With Analytics
Defending lawsuits and managing trials is a major focus area and expense category for insurers—whether they are defending insureds against liability claims or defending themselves in coverage and ...
COVID-19 Is Accelerating Technology Adoption, Innovation
The global pandemic has triggered fundamental changes that present insurers with new challenges and opportunities. Insurers embracing technological advances in underwriting will have an edge in the ...
Women’s History Month: How Karen Clark Became a Model of Success
Like many people, Karen Clark's career was influenced by circumstances and serendipity rather than any advanced planning. When in graduate school she developed a love of building computer models, ...
P/C InsurTech Venture Capital Surpasses $1B in Q1; Several Startups Raise Large Rounds
Property/casualty related InsurTech financings in the 2021 first quarter came together at a healthy clip, as startups focused on addressing needs in an insurance industry facing accelerated ...
Citizens’ CEO: Florida Market Is in Dire Straits
Florida's insurer of last resort, Citizens Property Insurance Corp., has become the insurer of first resort as thousands of new policies flood into it each week and the private homeowners insurance ...