Underwriting & Pricing
Coverage Innovation: Why and How Ironshore Developed a Cyber Warning Endorsement
Computer Hacks. In 60 percent of cases, attackers are able to compromise an organization within minutes, according to the Verizon 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report. Data Loss.Forty-three percent ...
Everest Re Will Unload U.S. Crop Insurance Subsidiary, Provide Reinsurance Cover
Everest Re Group, Ltd. plans to sell its U.S. crop insurance subsidiary, but still keep a hand in the business through reinsurance. The deal, announced July 25, calls for CGB Diversified Services ...
Why Asian-Americans Could Be Ideal Insurance Customers
For an industry known to flood households nationwide with blaring messages of money saving techniques, the insurance category certainly feels comfortable loosening its own purse strings. Ponying up a ...
Disclosure Risk for Climate Change: Insurers Making Progress
Just a few years back, the corporate governance and sustainability group known as Ceres crunched some very interesting numbers. In its "Insurer Climate Risk Disclosure Survey Report & Scorecard: ...
Quadrant CEO Macauley: The Predictive Pricing Tool That Scares Insurers
To Quadrant Information Services Founder and Chief Executive Officer Michael Macauley, InsureWatch Looking Glass is the ultimate marketplace weapon. The cloud-based pricing tool assembles ...
Insurance Industry Slams Treasury’s New Auto Insurance Affordability Formula
Federal regulators have adopted a methodology for monitoring the affordability of automobile insurance, capping years of debate and public comments. Property/casualty insurers, however, said the new ...
Q1 Troubles: Catastrophe Losses Knocked Net Income Down 26.6 Percent
Severe weather and the hefty insured losses that followed helped produce a 26.6 percent plunge in U.S. property/casualty insurers' net income during the 2016 first quarter, a new industry study has ...
How Modelers Are Responding to Cyber Risk
As the threat of a cyber attack against businesses has grown exponentially in recent years, so too has the cyber risk insurance market. According to Fitch Ratings, despite considerable uncertainty, ...