Image Finally, a Break in the Hurricane Forecast? Early forecasts are for a less active hurricane season than 2024's devastating one — though severe convective storms show no signs of letting up.
Insurance Faces Growing Natural Disaster Challenges By Bill Clark Kevin Stein As climate perils intensify, insurers must innovate or risk market exodus amid mounting catastrophic losses.
P&C Insurance: Mind The Gap(s) By Alan Demers Stephen Applebaum The last three years are arguably the most challenging the P&C insurance model has faced, and a worrisome series of gaps has taken shape.
Insurers Stay Optimistic on Investment Returns By Matt Reilly U.S. insurers remain optimistic for 2025 despite political concerns, showing increased appetite for private assets and risk-taking.
P&C Insurance Claims: The Time Has Come By Alan Demers Stephen Applebaum For too long, progress in the insurance claims process has been slow and incremental. The time is now ripe for reinvention.
Image The $1.5 Trillion Opportunity for Home Insurers A study finds that U.S. homes will lose $1.47 trillion of value by 2055 because of climate change. Therein lies a major challenge — and opportunity.
P&C Insurance Brokers Must Evolve By Shawn Holland In today's volatile P&C market, brokers must evolve beyond policy sales to become strategic risk advisres.
Image The Crisis in Homeowners Insurance In theory, increasing insurance premiums signals rising risk and spurs action that mitigates disasters like California's fires. In practice, climate is changing too fast, and government is being too slow.
Auto Insurance in an Existential Crisis By Stephen Applebaum Alan Demers The 125-year-old, $300 billion U.S. auto insurance industry is caught between runaway inflation and strained consumer wallets.
The Promise of Continuous Underwriting By Bill Deemer Bobby Touran Typically, a risk is underwritten, bound... and forgotten. But new streams of data and automation allow for continuous underwriting.
Convergence and the Insurance Ecosystem By Stephen Applebaum Alan Demers Companies must anticipate the future, innovate beyond their core and transform their capabilities as rapidly as technology allows.
Lemonade's 'Synthetic Agent' Nonsense By Matteo Carbone Desperate for growth, Lemonade produces another howler: A lender receiving a 16% interest rate is presented as a (synthetic) agent.