Regulation & Compliance
Climate Change Law for Financial Firms Introduced in New Zealand, a Global First
New Zealand has become the first country to introduce a law that will require banks, insurers and investment managers to report the impacts of climate change on their business, minister for climate ...
To A.M. Best, PURE Group Rates an A+
PURE Group, an insurer focused on the high-net-worth market, has seen it's AM Best financial strength rating upgraded to A+. The Superior rating is a change from its previous financial strength ...
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 ...
Lemonade CEO: Why Regulators Need to Engineer Equity in Insurance Prices
It takes a one-two punch to make insurance fair. I've previously argued that AI can vanquish bias in insurance, and so it can. But while machine learning can help ensure equality, it cannot ensure ...
U.S. Regulators Are Close to Creating Pet Insurance Legal Standards
U.S. insurance regulators are close to creating a legal standard for pet insurance that would address long-standing consumer complaints that insurers rarely pay up when their furry friends are not ...
Recapping 2020’s Insurance Numbers and What They Mean for 2021
The most recent tallies of financial results by rating agency analysts reveal that the property/casualty insurance industry weathered the storms of catastrophe losses and COVID, with one segment ...
Shareholder Class Action Complaint Filed Against InsurTech Root
With shares of Root Inc. trading at less than 50 percent of the late October 2020 IPO price of $27 per share, the InsurTech carrier has been named in a shareholders class action complaint, multiple ...
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 ...