Claims & Reserving
Risk Alerts: Toxic Baby Food and Endless Summers
Several popular baby food manufacturers are under fire for selling products containing toxic heavy metals. Climate change could be impacting seasonal lengths—leading to crop loss and environmental ...
Intelligent Automation in Loss Reserving: Why Actuaries Need Help From Robot Analysts
Among the many things that have changed how the actuarial field functions is an underlying movement to automate. By integrating cognitive computing capabilities into their actuarial processes, ...
Industry Loss Reserves Redundant by $28B: Assured Research
Analysts at Assured Research delivered some surprises in a report on property/casualty insurance industry loss reserves Monday, finding that reserves are $28 billion redundant and predicting that ...
Demand for Travel Insurance at Highest Level Since March 2020
Travel is making a comeback—and so is the travel insurance industry. In fact, the number of travel insurance policies sold for future trips has hit its highest level since March 2020, according to ...
Emerging Damage: The Case of Melamine
Emerging risks evolve through three phases: emerging interest, emerging damage and emerging litigation. During the "emerging interest" phase, scientists, regulators or legal scholars first flag the ...
How to Avoid Litigation With Pre-Suit Claims Analytics
Litigated claims are a key driver of increasing loss and expense ratios for property/casualty insurance carriers. Data-driven approaches—in particular, suit avoidance techniques and proactive ...
Was COVID-19 Really a Business Interruption Wake-Up Call?
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a wake-up call for the insurance industry in how it approaches cover for non-damage business interruption (NDBI). This is according to Lloyd's Chief Executive John ...
Responding to the Impact of COVID-19 on Workers Compensation
The workers compensation system has faced extraordinary challenges in the past 12 months. They just aren't the same issues we thought we would be addressing when the pandemic hit the U.S. in March ...