Underwriting & Pricing
Carriers Reluctant to Sell Insurance to PG&E After Wildfires, Bankruptcy
PG&E Corp. is finding it very costly to buy fire insurance after wildfires triggered by its power lines sent the company into bankruptcy and left it paying $25.5 billion for claims. It's hoping ...
Commercial Lines Insurers Investing in AI and Analytics to Improve Claims and Customer Experience: Novarica
Commercial lines insurers are intent on maintaining underwriting discipline as they grow, using data, AI, predictive analytics and business rules to align pricing actions with risk quality and make ...
U.S. Cyber Market Growth Slows Even as New Risks Emerge: AM Best
Growth in the U.S. cyber insurance market continues to slow, with 2019 marking the fourth consecutive year in which premiums grew less than in the prior year, says a new report from AM Best. At the ...
U.S. Personal Lines Insurers Poised for 2020 Underwriting Profit Despite Pandemic: Fitch
It turns out that the coronavirus pandemic hasn't adversely affected U.S. personal lines insurance all that much. In the short term, the sector has continued to do well and is poised to produce ...
Lemonade Now Offers Health Coverage for Cats and Dogs
Lemonade has expanded its offerings, launching a new pet health insurance product designed exclusively for cats and dogs. The New York-based InsurTech, which also offers homeowners and renters in the ...
Global Insurance Premiums Will Rebound in 2021 After Pandemic-Related Dip: Swiss Re Sigma
Though the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to lead to the deepest recession since the 1930s, global insurance premium volume will rebound to pre-crisis levels by the end of 2021, forecasts Swiss Re in ...
Is COVID Physical Damage? Plaintiffs Relying on Bacteria, Ammonia and Cat Urine Rulings
In 1963, congregants noticed a strange odor in the basement of the First Presbyterian Church in Littleton, Colo. Some suspected a gas leak or maybe spilled stationary ink. Others thought the smell ...
Managing a Pandemic: Are There Lessons From Catastrophe Modeling?
COVID-19 isn't the first and won't be the last pandemic to threaten the well-being of the global population, but it will likely turn out to be the worst in the last 100 years. It would be hard to ...