Underwriting & Pricing
Price Optimization or Price Discrimination? Regulators Weigh In
Insurers' growing use of predictive data analytics is predicated on enhancing operational efficiency, improving decision-making and offering more detailed pricing of products. It's that last practice ...
Commercial Drones Enter the World of Risk: ISO Analysis
As drone technology and potential applications continue to expand, corporate leaders around the world are facing a difficult question: How can drones be used to grow their businesses without harming ...
Swiss Re Predicts More M&A Due to New Regs and Capital Surge
New regulations and an influx of alternative capital will spur more mergers and acquisitions in the insurance industry, Swiss Re AG said. "We expect to continue to see a certain shakeout in the ...
Insurers See Impact from Wearables Within Two Years: Accenture Survey
Nearly two-thirds of insurers expect wearable technologies to have a significant impact on the industry, according to a survey in Accenture's annual Technology Vision report. The survey of more than ...
Closing the Gap: How Small and Midsized Insurers Can Leverage the Power of Big Data
The "big data" buzz that dominates so much of the P/C insurance conversation these days may not be as uniformly useful as everyone thinks. In the majority of cases, the usefulness of big data hinges ...
Open Platform vs. Open Source
Karen Clark noted that her company's RiskInsight "open platform" currently is the only one in the industry already used by insurers and reinsurers. But what about the Oasis framework, launched by 21 ...
Swiss Re Exec Reports: There’s a Perfect Storm Brewing
There's an irony in the term "perfect storm" that insurers understand better than anyone. Not only do we help policyholders recover from them, but we may be in for one of our own. Like shifting winds ...
What Carriers Want From Core Systems Transformations
Insurance carriers are making an unprecedented investment in transforming their policy, billing and claims systems and processes. This is a unique period where the convergence of aging legacy ...