Claims & Reserving
Climate Change Is Hurting Insurance Industry: Report
Climate change is hurting the insurance industry, and only 8 percent of insurers are preparing adequately for its impact, consultants Capgemini and financial industry body Efma said in a report on ...
TikTok Sued After 10-Year-Old Dies in ‘Blackout Challenge’
TikTok Inc. was blamed in a lawsuit for the death of a 10-year-old girl who allegedly participated in an online challenge in which people choke themselves until they black out. Nylah Anderson, an ...
Earth Has 50-50 Chance of Hitting Key Warming Mark by 2026
The world is creeping closer to the warming threshold international agreements are trying to prevent, with nearly a 50-50 chance that Earth will temporarily hit that temperature mark within the next ...
Claims Frequency Up for 2021, but Workers Comp Profitability ‘Unprecedented’
For the first time in more than a decade, workers compensation claims frequency, outside of COVID-19 illness claims, increased in the United States last year. But not to worry, the trend won't last, ...
Inflation, Ukraine War Seen as Chief Financial Risks
High inflation, volatility in stock and commodity markets, and the war in Ukraine have emerged as the chief risks to the U.S. financial system, the Federal Reserve reported on Monday in a biannual ...
Multiple Marine Insurance Claims Expected From War in Ukraine: Allianz
Global insurers are expected to receive multiple marine insurance claims from ships damaged or lost as the conflict in Ukraine spills over into sea lanes, insurer Allianz Global Corporate & ...
Travelers CEO Schnitzer: Loss Costs ‘Challenging as Ever to Predict’
In the words of its CEO, there's a "fair amount to pay attention to" from the first-quarter earnings call of Travelers, as the P/C insurer grew net written premiums 11 percent to a record $8.4 ...
How Carriers Are Reimagining Claims Management
With advances in technology comes a skyrocketing quantity of data, and frontline claims operators are struggling to keep up. For insurance executives, the problems that ricochet from this data ...