Viewpoints
Executive Viewpoint: Reason Over Rhetoric
Some environmental activists have turned to demanding insurers immediately stop underwriting and investing in fossil fuel projects, believing this will help solve climate ...
Cyber Resilience Lessons from the CrowdStrike Outage
Imagine arriving at London's Heathrow Airport only to find your flight merged with two others and chaos reigning supreme with baggage scattered everywhere. This was the real-life impact of the recent ...
Viewpoint: Generative AI in Insurance Isn’t Working
The insurance industry is at a pivotal moment in embracing generative AI. According to the ISG Pulse Check State of the European Insurance Industry 2024, insurance firms are actively engaged in ...
CEO Viewpoint: Leveraging AI to Combat Social Inflation in P/C Insurance
Social inflation is an ever-present concern in the property/casualty insurance industry, putting pressure on their reserve levels and overall financial stability. According to research from Swiss Re ...
How to Outperform: Don’t Outsource Underwriting; Manage Cycles
Executives of two property/casualty insurance organizations—Kinsale Insurance and the U.S. P/C operations of Arch Capital—shared their recipes for success with an analyst who crowned their ...
CEO Viewpoints: On Michigan, California and Litigation ‘Leeches’
"Michigan—not so great." The easy-to-overlook observation about insurance risk, delivered by Elizabeth Heck, chief executive officer of Greater New York Insurance Companies, during a panel ...
Viewpoint: Risks for D&O Insurers Exploring the New Frontier of Gen AI
Is the world being overtaken by robots? While the answer to that question is clearly "no" — or at least, "not yet" — it seems that the focus of nearly every industry and business media outlet is ...
AI-Powered Insurance Product Development Is Going to Take Some Powering Through
No doubt, AI is a hot topic in the insurance world these days. It brings so many possibilities to make us more effective and efficient.
CEO Viewpoint: Predict and Prevent Just Makes Economic Sense
Last year, U.S. P/C insurers incurred a $21.2 billion net underwriting loss, only slightly improved from a $24.9 billion underwriting loss recorded in 2022. Roughly $65 ...