Underwriting & Pricing
Full Disclosure: Climate Change May Prove Risky For Insurers
Insurance companies are in a tricky position when it comes to the issue of climate change. On the one hand, virtually all of them insure policyholders facing the risk of a climate change liability ...
Electronic Aggression: Uncovering Expensive Coverage Gaps
It used to be bullies were restricted to the playground—but not anymore. Cyberbullying is at epidemic levels. Facebook, YouTube and other social media have become platforms for bullying, and ...
Managing, Not Excluding, New Risks Key To Long-Term P/C Growth: Actuaries
Property/casualty insurers must learn how to manage new risks like nanotechnology, not just exclude them, if they want to survive and grow long-term, according to speakers at the spring meeting of ...
New York Approves Workers’ Comp Loss Cost Filing
The New York Department of Financial Services on Monday approved a 9.5 percent revised loss cost increases request from the New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board (NYCIRB) with an effective ...
NC Residual Market Prepped For Storms With $500M In Cat Bonds, HO Rate Hikes
North Carolina's two residual homeowners insurance markets have jointly issued $500 million in pre-event catastrophe bonds to ensure they have enough money on hand to quickly pay claims following ...
Keeping Up With Emerging Risks Remains A Struggle For P/C Carriers
The property/casualty insurance industry depends on lots of data to develop products and price them, making the coverage of new risks a significant challenge for underwriters, a London specialist ...
Airline Insurance Premiums Continue to Fall: Willis
Insurance premiums for airlines continued to go down during the first half of this year in what remains a buyers' market, according to a report by Willis Group Holdings. The loss of an Asiana B777 ...
RMS(one) Explained
When RMS developed its recently unveiled software platform RMS(one), the catastrophe modeling firm had a wide range of potential users in mind—many of whom are not accustomed to tinkering around ...