Claims & Reserving
Risk Alerts: Medical Marijuana; LED Lighting and Eyesight Damage
Could medical marijuana laws actually be increasing opioid overdose deaths? Are the benefits of medical cannabis worth the possible side effects? Is the blue light in LED lighting damaging our ...
Liability Long Tail Could Get Longer
One of the most challenging things about liability insurance is that claims on this year's policy might be made well into the future. If exposure to a chemical, product or business activity this year ...
Parametric Insurance Takes Off
Now that property and casualty insurance coverage terms for business disruption losses are gradually tightening, a singular insurance product used primarily to protect businesses against ...
Is the IoT the Future of Workers Comp?
Internet of Things capabilities, already familiar to insurers from personal lines applications like auto telematics, are emerging in the workers compensation space through purpose-built monitoring ...
U.S. Rainfall to Leave Farmers With Estimated 2.2 Million Unplanted Soy Acres
American farmers, already set to leave a record number of acres without corn, now face the prospect of also failing to plant soybeans because of rampant rainfall. Growers are expected to file ...
How InsurTech Can Improve Catastrophe Response
I have been on the catastrophe front lines. I have worked 12-hour days, seven days a week, for weeks on end estimating and paying for losses to ensure people had money to start repairing their ...
Cyber Attacks Added to List of Municipal Bond Credit Risks
Huge pension debt. Crumbling infrastructure. Climate change. Now add cyberattacks to the list of things that municipal bond investors should worry about. The recent ransomware attack that shut down ...
Bankrupt California Utility Allowed to Establish a $105M Wildfire Victim Fund
PG&E Corp may set up a $105 million housing fund for victims of 2017 and 2018 wildfires in California, which set records for devastation and were blamed on the utility's equipment, the judge ...