Viewpoints
U.S. E&S Sector Is Booming…But Is it Too Much Business to Handle?
The excess and surplus lines and specialty insurance market is booming and looks set to continue its upward trajectory. The question is whether the sector currently has the resources to take ...
Meet CM’s Guest Editor: SAS Institute’s Fitz Fitzgerald
If you ask Carrier Management's Guest Editor Michael (Fitz) Fitzgerald to describe his career path to his current role as Insurance Industry Advisor for SAS Institute, he'll likely offer an analogy ...
VC Insights: Putting the Focus on Insurers, Not Silicon Valley
When Eos Venture Partners invested in a cyber recovery firm, it had yet to generate significant profit. But Fenix24 has since had a "meteoric rise," according to Jonathan Kalman, a founding partner ...
More Editor’s Picks: Beyond Personal Lines—and California
Carrier Management's editor picked the California property insurance market crisis at the top story of 2023, told in a series of articles in our third-quarter magazine and through additional articles ...
Saying Goodbye to 2023: When Will California’s Insurance Crisis End?
"Sorry, America, Your Insurance Has Been Canceled" The words were printed on an iconic Time magazine cover from 1986 depicting a bolt of lightning striking a distant American flag positioned at the ...
Fundamentals for Cyber Carriers When Structuring Coverage
The cyber insurance industry is maturing and evolving rapidly following years of escalating cyber incidents and colossal payouts. With the vast financial implications of cybercrime, insurance ...
Insurers, Insureds Must Collaborate to Get Ahead of Social Inflation
Insurers need to take a comprehensive and collaborative approach to stem the rising tide of social inflation. This approach should be one that involves not only assessing corporate risk and ...
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 ...