Underwriting & Pricing
Commercial Prices Up For 9 Straight Quarters: Towers Watson; Years More Needed: Hartwig
Reporting an aggregate first-quarter 2013 jump in commercial insurance prices of almost 7 percent, Towers Watson said the result marks over two consecutive years—nine straight quarters—of price ...
Sea Level Rise May Be Less Than Feared But Still Bring Severe Surges
A melt of ice on Greenland and Antarctica is likely to be less severe than expected this century, limiting sea level rise to a maximum of 69 cm (27 inches), an international study said on Tuesday. ...
May’s Weather Caused Billions in Losses in U.S., Around the Globe: Aon Benfield
Severe weather in May caused an estimated $4 billion in insured damage, and almost twice that in economic losses, in the U.S. alone and billions more in economic losses around the globe, according to ...
Berkshire E&S Entrance Is No Concern, Berkley Says
Profit-focused executives from strong firms who understand the business of underwriting are welcome to enter the excess and surplus lines segment—and that includes Berkshire Hathaway's Ajit Jain, ...
Commercial Insurance Rates Up 5% for 3d Month: MarketScout
The average composite rate for commercial property/casualty insurance in the U.S. was up five percent for May 2013. This marks the third month in a row for a five percent increase, according to ...
Trillions Of Dollars At Risk In Coastal States: AIR Worldwide, CoreLogic
In separate reports released earlier this week, AIR Worldwide and CoreLogic estimated insured property values in coastal areas of the United States reaching into the trillions of dollars. CoreLogic, ...
European vs. U.S. Hurricane Models: Which Is Better?
When forecasters from the National Weather Service track a hurricane, they use models from several different supercomputers located around the world to create their predictions. Some of those models ...
EQECAT To Share Exposure Data Standard With RMS
Catastrophe modeling firm EQECAT announced that it has finalized an agreement to share exposure data schemas with another major catastrophe-modeling firm, Risk Management Solutions (RMS). The ...