Content from Susanne Sclafane
Mercury General Wildfire Losses Will Hit Reinsurance Cover. One Event?
Mercury General Corporation said it expects losses from wildfires burning in California since Jan. 7 to exceed its $150 million reinsurance retention, without providing a specific dollar estimate of ...
When EVs Take Off: AM Best Reviews Impact on China Motor Insurance
Premiums for policies covering new energy vehicles in China have soared to $13.8 billion—a six-fold jump from the level recorded five years earlier, AM Best said in a special report published ...
Moody’s Global P/C Outlook Now Stable Despite Past-Peak Commercial Pricing
Moody's Ratings changed the sector outlook for the global property/casualty insurance industry to stable from negative last month, pointing to personal lines price hikes in the U.S. and UK as a ...
2025 Underwriting Profit and ‘Shop-a-Palooza’ Predicted for Auto Insurance
2024 was another tough year for personal lines insurers and their customers. In this space in late 2023, I wrote that seven of the 10 most read articles of 2023 were about the impacts of inflation ...
Reporter’s Notebook: ‘Nobody Else Does Telematics,’ Lemonade Exec Says
Executives speaking at Lemonade's Investor Day event late last month made several statements suggesting that their approaches to personal lines insurance set the technology company apart from the ...
Hiring for Attitude: What Sets Lemonade Apart
An executive speaking at Lemonade's Investor Day late last month took investors behind the scenes to watch some of its AI bots in action. The point of the demonstration, however, was to do more than ...
Defense Lawyer’s Perspective: Connecting Insurers, Promoting Plaintiff-Style Solidarity
Back in 2018, there weren't too many insurance professionals talking about social inflation.
William ...
Unite and Conquer: How the Insurance Industry Can Deflate Social Inflation
At one of the early meetings of American Legal Connections, Rich Henderson, a senior vice president for reinsurer TransRe, bumped into a concerned client from a hospital ...
A New Claims Playbook: United and Street Smart on Litigation Demands
Social inflation is at the heart of rising claims severity trends showing up on the books of casualty insurers and reinsurers, industry representatives agree.
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