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The New ‘Jake From State Farm’: Insurers’ Increasing Diversity in Advertising and More
"Jake from State Farm" returned to television in February, but with an unexpected twist. The iconic white character is now a younger Black man. The new campaign starts with the original ...
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 ...
‘Well Done Is Better Than Well Said’: Retiring CEO Reflects
Next year I will be retiring from the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, an organization founded to advance the cause of member companies and their policyholders. It's been my work ...
Social Inflation and the Risk of D&O-GL Clash
Social inflation is the primary explanation offered for the need to increase general liability and excess casualty premiums in the last two years. With social inflation, injured parties are more ...
QBE CEO Regan Departs After Investigation Following Female Employee’s Complaint
QBE Insurance Group's Chief Executive Officer Pat Regan is departing the insurer after an external investigation found his workplace communications did not meet the standards set out in the group's ...
AI Insurance: Who Is Insuring the Algorithms?
There are some algorithms in life that, even with the very best marketing, don't really matter too much. For example, if Netflix's recommendation algorithm points me toward the first episode of a ...
How to Acquire and Retain the Right Insurance Customers in a Post COVID-19 World
The impact of the COVID-19 outbreak has been devastating for the global economy, and with many countries in extended lockdown, there has been a seismic shift in customer behavior and business ...
State Farm Makes an Acquisition for the First Time
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. is acquiring Dallas-based nonstandard auto insurer, GAINSCO, in a $400 million cash transaction. It will be the first time in State Farm's 98-year history ...
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Insurers Struggle With Policy Rewrites
Commercial insurers are engaged in coverage language rewrites en masse this year, but "The Great Policy Rewrite" faces some serious obstacles, a coverage lawyer said recently. Even if carriers are ...
Finding Niches: Reinsurance MGAs Carving Out Special Market Slices
Reinsurance managing general agents are a rare breed as opposed to their more prevalent insurance-focused counterparts. The successful reinsurance MGAs have a niche, a focus. What they have in common ...
U.S. Auto Combined Ratios Will See Sharp Improvement in 2020: Report
In a report, S&P Global Market Intelligence is projecting that U.S. personal and commercial auto insurers will see a sharp improvement in their full-year combined ratios for 2020, followed by ...
Price Casualty Like a Short-Tail Line: Swiss Re Exec
With low investment yields becoming a fact of life of insurers and reinsurers, breakeven combined ratios for casualty business won't cut it anymore, a reinsurance executive said recently. Jonathan ...
The Big Re: What You Missed
Launched during the week of what would have been the Reinsurance Rendez-Vous de Septembre, Big Re, Carrier Management's hub for reinsurance, aims to provide complete reinsurance coverage of, by and ...
The Big Picture: How COVID Should Change the Industry
Responding to a Carrier Management call for executive viewpoints, industry leaders told us how the pandemic has changed them. In addition, they shared ideas about how the industry should plan for the ...
The Insurance Jobs ‘Revolution’
Earlier this year, I wrote a series of articles about insurance carriers that got top ratings on an online job site. To do my research, I had to sign up to provide information about my job. Ever ...
Insurers Plan to Hire But Recruitment Struggles Remain
Most U.S. insurers want to fill existing positions or expand their staffs over the next year even though they are still having trouble recruiting. Interestingly, that trouble has persisted even ...
State Auto Plans Broad Rollout of Agent Platform Developed With Amazon
State Automobile Mutual Insurance Company is planning a national rollout of a platform designed with Amazon to help independent insurance agents better serve the insurer's policyholders. A beta ...
Hardening Re Market Doesn’t Look Like Mid-1980s or 2005
Reinsurance price hikes and capacity changes are not reminiscent of prior hard markets, participants said in quasi-Rendez-Vous meetings, with some going as far to say that current price changes are ...
Next Insurance Nails Down $250M Financing Round; $631M Pulled in to Date
Next Insurance secured another $250 million in financing designed to fuel continued national expansion of its digital small business insurance offerings. CapitalG, Alphabet/Google's independent ...
What Happened to Hedge Fund Reinsurers?
The latest group of reinsurers to emerge in the Bermuda market is starting to look different. Even the name that once described the cohort has changed in the past five years. And at least one member ...
What to Expect in 2021: Reinsurance Market Moving From ‘Timid’ to ‘Hard’
Speaking at one of the many virtual conferences that took place in early September, Dan Malloy, chief executive officer of Bermuda-based Third Point Reinsurance, offered an anecdotal view of the ...
Helping Employees Return to the Workplace: Leadership Tips
With most of the world beginning to reopen after months of pandemic lockdown, it's time for businesses to begin implementing their plans for re-entry to the workplace. Among the expert tips: ensure ...
What Is the No. 1 Emerging Litigation Risk? ‘Forever Chemicals,’ Says Praedicat
The top emerging litigation risk identified for the year ahead is PFAS, the so-called "forever chemicals" used in a wide variety of products such as Teflon, Scotchgard, food containers, firefighting ...
Lockton Re Imagined: Bringing Choice to Reinsurance Brokerage
While some reinsurance brokers see opportunities to achieve significant economies of scale in the reinsurance market through acquisitions, others see opportunities to grow by providing reinsurance ...
Prediction: Coronavirus Will Have Severe Impact on Social Inflation
Claims inflation for the commercial liability business will increase through 2020, although it was accelerating even before the coronavirus pandemic hit. This trend, known as social inflation, has ...
Stories+Words+Machines: A Nerd’s Formula for Building an InsurTech
There probably aren't too many people who think about insurance claims scenarios when they go out to buy ice cream. Chris Cheatham, the CEO of InsurTech Risk Genius, is one of them, according to a ...
Pandemic Leaves Many Workers Anxious About Returning to Office
The coronavirus pandemic has left a majority of workers feeling worried and anxious about returning to the office once their workplaces reopen, according to a new University of Phoenix survey. ...
AIG Loses Four Black Executives, Including Two Diversity Officers
American International Group Inc. has lost four senior Black managers in recent weeks, including two who were tasked with improving the diversity of the insurer's ranks. Global inclusion head ...
Stop Nuclear Verdicts: Hire Plaintiff Lawyers
Why have nuclear verdicts skyrocketed in the last 10 years? Did the law change? Did Congress pass a sweeping bill in favor of plaintiffs that mandates they must recover tens of millions of dollars in ...
How Insurance Industry Might Respond if a Pandemic Is an Act of Terror
Imagine a scenario where COVID-19 was manufactured in a lab and was released as an act of terror. Tracey Gibbons, senior vice present, Underwriting, at Third Point Re, considers this possibility ...
Next Insurance: Getting Small Businesses Back to Work
I strongly believe that insurance is a social good, and as a company Next Insurance strongly values a customer-centric approach to service. The challenges of the pandemic have motivated us as an ...
Travelers Starts Using AI for Ergonomic Assessments
The Travelers Companies said it has started using artificial intelligence to offer business customers virtual and onsite ergonomic assessments. Travelers, which is based in Hartford, Conn., claims to ...
Some Reinsurers Will Try Pandemic Exclusions for Casualty at 1/1
Whether they are convinced that they absolutely need them or not, some reinsurers aim to try to put pandemic exclusions into casualty reinsurance contracts next year, a reinsurance broker ...
A Quarantine Dispatch on Metromile, Lemonade and Root’s Financials
Since the first article in this series, Dispatches From InsurTech Survival Island, our principal goal in analyzing the quarterly statutory statements of the most relevant U.S. property/casualty ...
From ‘Blue Sky’ Thinking to Groundbreaking Risk Initiatives
Sometimes we get in our own way. We think our ideas are crazy and rationalize them away because we see too many hurdles to overcome. Before we know it, we've tossed aside an idea that could have made ...
COVID-19 Crisis Reveals Contract Clarity Lessons, Digital Opportunities: Flandro
In every crisis, lessons must be learned, but opportunities also are revealed. And so it goes with the COVID-19, which has shown the need for contract certainty in the re/insurance industry, while at ...
U.S. Commercial Insurance Prices Continued Robust Climb in Q2 as Uncertainty Mushroomed
U.S. commercial insurance prices continued their robust climb in the 2020 second quarter, rising by close to 10 percent overall compared to the same period a year ago, according to Willis Towers ...
Executives On The Move at Guy Carpenter, AIG and Chubb
Guy Carpenter appointed a Marsh veteran to the newly created role of president. AIG announced the appointment of a new CEO for Talbot Underwriting Ltd. Chubb named a new regional president for its ...
COVIDigation Nation Revisited: Analyzing the Late Summer Surge
Hello, devoted COVIDigation Nation readers. This is article two in a series tracking insurance lawsuits related to COVID-19 business claims (i.e., COVIDigation). It's kind of like a serial comic ...
Chubb Debuts Global Platform Designed to Simplify Distribution Through Partners’ Digital Channels
Chubb is debuting a global platform designed to simplify and streamline the distribution of its insurance products through partners' digital channels globally. The company refers to the offerings as ...
The Hartford Produces Q2 Profit; Announces Job Cut, IT Investment Plans
The Hartford survived second quarter COVID-19 related challenges by producing an overall profit, though the property/casualty insurer announced plans to reduce expenses through job cuts and other ...
How Parametric Triggers Can Allow Insurers to Cover Pandemic Business Interruptions
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused severe levels of disruption to economies around the world and has affected businesses of all sizes—and the insurance industry has been caught in the middle of the ...
Hippo Completes Acquisition of Spinnaker Insurance
Hippo, an InsurTech and managing general agent focused on home insurance, has completed its acquisition of Spinnaker Insurance Company, with an expansion into additional states next on its plate. The ...
‘Finding Meaning’ Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has not only caused a tremendous amount of death, but it has also altered society's ability to perform and experience the traditional rituals of dying, which are necessary to ...
Pandemic Losses Forestall Liability Insurance Turnaround
Projecting future property/casualty insurance market profit is always challenging. The economic and social impact of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic greatly compounds the uncertainty of this effort. ...
PartnerRe Rejoins Largely Unchanged Reinsurance Top 10: A.M. Best
The 10 largest global reinsurers of 2019 represent a paragon of stability, according to A.M. Best's new market segment report. That's largely because so little changed from the year before. Nine of ...
Casualty Reinsurance Demand Rises in North America Despite Hardening Primary Rates: Willis Re
Although there is a significant market correction taking place in the North American liability insurance market, demand for casualty reinsurance is increasing, said Chirag Shah, executive vice ...
No Rendez-Vous, No Problem
Reinsurance executives who would normally be heading to the Rendez-Vous de Septembre in Monte Carlo are missing the experience but carrying on business just fine without the in-person interactions in ...
MetLife Looking to Sell P/C Auto and Home Biz: KBW
MetLife is pursuing a sale of its property/casualty auto and home insurance business, according to a report by analysts following the company Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW) analysts, Ryan Krueger ...