Underwriting
Why All the Fuss? Fairness Regulations Meet Insurers’ Growing Use of AI
Insurers worldwide are increasingly embracing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) powered decision support tools (Artificial Intelligence Systems or AIS)— both home-grown and ...
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 ...
E&S Market Sees 21% Compound Growth Within Past 5 Years: Conning
Excess and surplus (E&S) lines of insurance have experienced unprecedented growth, realizing 21 percent compound annual growth rate over the past five years and surpassing $104 billion in ...
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 ...
Slideshow: Carrier Management’s 2024 Top Editor’s Picks (Unlocked)
Happy New Year! We are unlocking 10 feature articles that we were proud to publish in 2024—my Editor's Picks for 2024. (Free access links to our reader picks—the 10 most-read feature articles of ...
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 ...
Surviving the ‘Silver Tsunami’: Closing the Talent, Skills Gap in Underwriting
With a "silver tsunami" of skilled underwriters eligible to retire in coming years and a shift in employee expectations, recruitment and retention is a critical focus for ...
Insurers’ Climate Losses Almost Match Premiums From Fossil Fuels
Top insurance companies suffered $10.6 billion of climate-attributed losses this year, just shy of the $11.3 billion of direct premiums they underwrote for commercial fossil-fuel clients in 2023, ...