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MPLI Lagging Commercial Lines Underwriting Cycle
Medical professional liability insurance (MPLI) is a smaller specialty property/casualty insurance underwriting segment that has generated strong annual underwriting profits since 2006, considerably ...
Deloitte’s Howard Mills On Leadership & Governance
"Take me to your leader." Those of us who grew up worshiping cheesy sci-fi movies from the 1950s are undoubtedly familiar with that line. It is what the aliens who land on earth usually say to the ...
How Good Are Hurricane Forecasts?
Hurricane forecasts are very interesting and well publicized in the media, but how reliable are they? Not very, according to catastrophe modeling expert Karen Clark, who provides a chart of seasonal ...
Karen Clark Explains The Basic Facts About Hurricanes
The 2013 hurricane season is upon us and with it the usual spate of hurricane predictions. Most forecasts will call for an active, above average season in 2013, due to factors such as warm sea ...
Social Media & The SEC: New Opportunity and New Risk for Public Companies
It is now over a month since the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued guidance in the form of a report of investigation ("April Report") explaining why it decided not to bring an ...
Former NY Governors Tell AG: Drop Greenberg Suit
In an opinion piece published in today's Wall Street Journal, two former New York governors are urging the New York Attorney General to stop the pursuit of Maurice "Hank" Greenberg in a case tied to ...
External Perspective: Business, Taxes and Responsibility
In recent months, people and their politicians around the world have been astonished to learn that big companies and billionaires will go to extraordinary lengths to pay lower taxes. Thanks to the ...
Enterprise Risk Reporting: The New ‘Form F’ Requirement Is Coming
In response to the 2008 financial crisis and, in particular, the AIG bailout, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) adopted a significant revision to the model Insurance Holding ...