Content from Susanne Sclafane
Systemic Risk: What It Feels Like
Tuesday, May 11 started out as an ordinary day for me. Early in the day, I was following the latest news about the lingering effects of a ransomware attack on the Colonial Energy pipeline, which had ...
Progressive ‘Crushing It’ on Profit: Berkshire’s Jain and Buffett
Berkshire Hathaway Chair Warren Buffett and Vice Chair Ajit Jain admit that GEICO ranks behind Progressive in its ability "match rate to risk," but both competitors will soon surpass State Farm and ...
Feds Could Step in to Fix Racial Bias in Insurance Pricing
If the National Association of Insurance Commissioners doesn't act this year to correct systemic racial bias in insurance ratemaking and other processes, Congress may pass anti-discrimination laws ...
Race as a Control Variable
One way to minimize proxy discrimination in multivariate pricing models is to introduce a "control variable" representing a protected class to the analysis. Birny Birnbaum explained the approach ...
Betting On Founders: How VCs Spot InsurTech Unicorns of 2025
Carrier vs. MGA. U.S. vs EU. Specialty niche vs. traditional insurance lines. There are many things that distinguish one InsurTech from the next, including financial metrics like internal rates of ...
As MGA Growth Explodes, AM Best Unveils New Assessments Coming Soon
With the volume of premium generated by managing general agents and other delegated underwriting authority enterprises (DUAEs) rocketing skyward in recent years, AM Best had decided it's time to ...
Progressive’s ‘Apron Relief’ Continues; Snapshot 30-Day Monitoring Available
While Progressive gave back more than $1 billion of premiums last year, and lowered rates in recognition pandemic-related reductions in driving activity, the insurer is offering more potential ...
Insurance Industry Adds Nearly 20K Jobs During Pandemic
Levels of employment for the insurance industry are "holding up much stronger than the overall economy," the leader of an insurance search firm said recently, reporting that insurers have added ...