Underwriting & Pricing
Consistent Policy Wording Bringing Some Relief to Evolving Cyber Market
Consistency within cyber insurance policies is something the industry has been grappling with for nearly a decade, according to speakers at the annual RIMS Riskworld conference, held this year in ...
Progressive Falling Short of CR Target; 10 More Points of Rate This Year
With loss reserve actions moving Progressive's first-quarter calendar year combined ratio up to 99, the company is tightening underwriting, cutting advertising spend and taking more rate actions, the ...
Can Insurance Find a Home in the Metaverse?
A Cognizant report published last year, titled "A pragmatist's guide to the Metaverse," said if you ask three people what the Metaverse is, you'll get three different answers. CM's sister publication ...
How Insurers Can Harness the Power of AI
There is a lot of talk about the insurance industry being slower to adopt new technologies such as artificial intelligence, but Counterpart CEO Tanner Hackett and Socotra CEO Dan Woods both agreed on ...
Roof Damage Research: Small Hail Matters
New analysis by the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) and ZestyAI, a climate and property risk analytics provider, finds property/casualty insurance carriers need to broaden ...
Changing Times at NCCI: Workers Comp Organization Now 100 Years Old
When this reporter started her career in insurance a few decades ago as an actuarial quality control technician for the National Council on Compensation Insurance, the only computers we had sitting ...
D&O Story for 2022: Prices Down; Loss Ratios Up; Top Carriers Ranked
Although analysts at Fitch Ratings estimate that combined ratios for the directors and officers liability line remained below breakeven in 2022, with competition fueling price declines and the ...
How to Win Reinsurance Negotiations in a ‘Show Don’t Tell’ Hard Market
We need to talk about the cost of reinsurance. Primary property/casualty insurance carriers and MGAs are still squeamish following the most difficult January reinsurance renewals the industry has ...