Underwriting & Pricing
Brokers Can Be Catalysts for Specialty Products Innovation
In an era of insurance transformation, where process simplification and flawless customer service is expected, innovation in policy and product is a must—especially when it comes to the ...
Here’s How Aon’s New Reinsurance Auction Works
The broker Aon plc has launched an auction capability for the Jan. 1, 2020 reinsurance renewals. The auction is designed to provide additional options for insurer clients by reducing the time frame ...
U.S. Private Flood Insurance: The Journey to Build a New Market
Not long ago, private flood insurance was thought to be an impossible dream in the property/casualty sector. There were numerous arguments supporting the common wisdom that a meaningful market for ...
Vitale Comes Out of Retirement to Help Run Cyber Analytics InsurTech Arceo.ai
Veteran insurance industry executive Mario Vitale is jumping into the InsurTech world in a big way. He's the new president of Arceo.ai, a cybersecurity analytics startup based in San Francisco. ...
Risk Alert: Is Water Making Us Fat?
Drinking water: a commodity so abundant in modern society that we rarely give it much thought. At least until recently with two dramatic discoveries. First, the discovery of lead-contaminated water ...
UK Insurer RSA Returns to Earlier Commercial Lines Organizational Structure
RSA UK & International has merged its Commercial Risk Solutions (CRS) and Global Risk Solutions (GRS) businesses to create a single business unit focused on commercial lines. This move follows ...
As Legacy Acquisitions Boom, What Will Happen to Deal Pricing?
Activity in the legacy insurance market has boomed. However, as capital pours in, perhaps it is best to understand how pricing will develop in the space and whether increased capital will drive price ...
Insurance Linked Securities Hold Their Own in the Face of Cat Bond Losses: Aon Securities
Insurance linked securities are holding their own even as they have been slammed with robust catastrophe bond losses, a new Aon report has found, predicting that the sector will resume growth in ...