Underwriting & Pricing
Validus’ Noonan Slams Berkshire Sidecar, Says Cat Model Won’t Jolt US Re Prices
London market participants are competitive but disciplined, Validus Holdings' CEO said on Friday. But one pocket of "excessive competition" is coming from Berkshire Hathaway's Lloyd's sidecar—a ...
Florida Senate Approves Citizens Reform Bill; Path Ahead Remains Uncertain
Florida lawmakers have taken the first step towards reforming the state-backed property insurer, but not before significantly scaling back its impact on policyholders. Chances for final legislative ...
Coverage Analysis: Personal Gun Liability Insurance
Interest in personal liability insurance for firearms owners has expanded with the media focus on gun-centric events and the public discussion of liability issues. While specific personal liability ...
The Trademark Problem: Casualty Insurance’s Dirty Little Secret
It has always been surprising to me that trademark issues receive so little attention in the insurance community. It's almost as if trademark claims are the dirty little secret of casualty insurance, ...
Five Myths About Predictive Analytics You Can’t Afford to Believe
Predictive analytics has a relatively long history in the P/C insurance industry. From the early 1990s, when early adopters began to use predictive modeling for rating and underwriting, to more ...
Fitch Commercial Lines Analysis: Workers’ Comp Weak; Med Prof Deteriorating
Accident-year loss ratios for all major commercial insurance lines except medical professional liability insurance improved in 2012, but none of them produced an accident-year underwriting profit ...Insurance Salesman By Choice: PHLY’s Robert O’Leary
For Robert O'Leary, the new CEO of Philadelphia Insurance Company, the days when he peeled himself out of the driver's seat of an unairconditioned car to sell casualty insurance policies around ...
Using Big Data To Improve Homeowners Insurance Products
There is no doubt that so-called Big Data is changing the way many companies do business. The volume of information being generated by web activity is growing exponentially and the technology has ...