Claims & Reserving
Risk Alert: Is Water Making Us Fat?
Drinking water: a commodity so abundant in modern society that we rarely give it much thought. At least until recently with two dramatic discoveries. First, the discovery of lead-contaminated water ...
Insurance Linked Securities Hold Their Own in the Face of Cat Bond Losses: Aon Securities
Insurance linked securities are holding their own even as they have been slammed with robust catastrophe bond losses, a new Aon report has found, predicting that the sector will resume growth in ...
Hurricane Dorian Insured Caribbean Losses Could Reach $3B: AIR Worldwide
Hurricane Dorian's impact on the Caribbean will cause $1.5 billion to $3 billion in insured losses, according to an estimate from Verisk-owned catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide. Modeled loss ...
Root and Lemonade: Real Unicorns or Ponies in Halloween Costumes?
Insurance is fundamentally about protecting people's lives. The sector has evolved over millennia and continues to find ways to innovate as societal needs evolve and change. In ancient times, it is ...
Progressive Corp. Tops Commercial Auto Charts; Others Still Ailing: Fitch
The commercial automobile insurance segment is headed for its ninth straight year of underwriting losses when the books close at year-end 2019, analysts at Fitch Ratings predict in a new report. In ...
Unknowns and Long Tails: What’s the Next ‘Ex’?
Executives of property/casualty insurance carriers have been offering reassuring statements about the trajectory of the market lately. Premium rates are keeping pace with loss costs, they say. But ...
Large Cities Must Invest Billions of Dollars More to Secure Citizen Data: Study
The world's largest cities need to invest billions of additional dollars into their infrastructure in order to secure citizen data, new research suggests. Of the roughly $135 billion expected to be ...
2018 Reserves Year in Review: Can Workers Comp Continue to Drive the Gravy Train of Releases?
2018 marked the 13th consecutive year in which the industry saw favorable prior-year reserve development bolstering calendar-year underwriting margins. Total releases for last year came in at over ...