Underwriting & Pricing
Prepare for the Soft Market: Why You Need to Set Performance Metrics Now
On the face of it, it appears to be a good time to be an underwriter. A combination of historic underperformance, an elevated risk outlook and investor reticence is encouraging underwriters to push ...
What to Expect: ‘No Material or Sudden Changes’ in Commercial Insurance Pricing
Even though reinsurance executives are making noise about social inflation and liability rate inadequacy, WTW isn't expecting any major changes in the pricing for commercial casualty or property ...
Rebuilding the California Property Market: Reinsurance Costs and Recent Reforms
In November of last year, Allstate paused writing new homeowners policies in California. State Farm, the state's largest homeowners writer, stopped accepting new applications for insurance back in ...
How a Regional Carrier Protects Against a $60B California Cat Event
While two dozen interested parties spoke at a recent California Department of Insurance workshop on the use of catastrophe modeling in pricing, offering predictable messages supporting carrier, ...
California’s Next Steps: Picking the Right Cat Models and Staffing Up
Is $11 million too much to pay for a public catastrophe model? Does the California Department of Insurance have to hire a new contingent of specialists to understand private models, if those are ...
Viewpoint: Get Ready Now for the Soft Market (Because It’s Coming)
While discussing soft market underwriting may seem ill-timed given current strong results and hard market conditions, there are worrying signs that underwriters are beginning to chase market share in ...
Perils, CyberAcuView Launch U.S. Cyber Industry Loss Index
A U.S.-focused Cyber Industry Loss Index has been launched by Zurich-based Perils and CyberAcuView, an independent U.S.-based organization formed by leading cyber insurers, to keep capital flowing in ...
Hard Market Pressure: Surplus Lines Lifting Heavy Load in Turbulent Times
As the longest hard market in memory refuses to fade, standard property/casualty carriers are not only continuing to raise prices but also reimagining their books by shedding risks they no longer ...