Underwriting & Pricing
2015 Outlook: Rate Drops Dim Prospects for Underwriting Profits, PwC Says
Underwriting returns alone just won't cut for some London market insurers and reinsurers in 2015, according to PwC, which says that 20 percent of the market participants are "materially reliant" on ...
Big Data and Insurance: Coming to a Supermarket Near You
If supermarket chains wanted to get in the business of selling property/casualty insurance, there is a source of consumer information they might tap to identify the best risks that most P/C actuaries ...
A.M. Best: Workers Compensation Numbers Improved in 2013
While workers compensation continues to face heavy competition and low investment returns, we have good news to tell you. The industry's combined ratio dipped nearly 12 percent from 2012 to 2013, ...
Carriers Try ‘Holding the Line’ on Property-Cat Renewals: NAPCO
Property-catastrophe insurers have been focused on winning new business, which means new customers are seeing bigger price cuts, according to a market report from a wholesale broker specializing in ...
Primary, Excess Layer D&O Pricing Still Moving in Opposite Directions: Aon
Overall price declines for directors and officers liability insurance programs of publicly traded companies continue to be driven by excess-layer price drops, Aon's Financial Services Group concluded ...
Hiscox to Offer Cyber Deception Coverage
Hiscox has announced that it will offer a new cyber deception coverage as part of its executive risks suite of insurance coverages. Cyber deception occurs when criminals intentionally mislead company ...
Hudson Insurance Acquires Surety Business Portfolio
Hudson Insurance Group has acquired the underwriting operations of Surety Partners of America, Northeast. As part of the transaction, Michael Blount and James Balzan will join the team at Hudson ...
Sunlight Drives Away the Shadows: The Value of Open Source
In its 20-plus years, catastrophe risk modeling had developed nearly insurmountable barriers to alternative views of risk. Except for the largest companies, insurers and reinsurers have had little ...