Underwriting Wildfire Risk

The 2021 California wildfire season continued the worrying trend of more extreme fires than the historical norm. As of December 12, 8,786 wildfires had destroyed over 2.5 million acres, about 1 ...

Rebuilding Construction Insurance

At the end of an hour-long interview, the chief executive officer of an InsurTech focused on liability coverage for middle-market commercial construction contractors gave an unusual answer to a ...

A Special Time for Specialty Markets

The specialty insurance marketplace always has been a vast laboratory for nascent products. It once was a tiny market. Those days are over. Today, with tens of billions in premiums in the U.S. ...