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Insurance & Technology
July 12, 2006
Maria Woehr |
Not Risking It The availability of catastrophe models generated overconfidence among insurers, which, after the past hurricane season, are realizing the technology's limitations. However, insurers will still continue to rely on cat modeling to reduce risk exposure.   |
Insurance & Technology
September 16, 2005
Deena M. Amato-McCoy |
Eye of the Storm Insurers that implement processes and technologies for accurately assessing data and measuring risk across business lines and geographies before disaster strikes will weather the storm. |
Insurance & Technology
December 13, 2006
Anthony O'Donnell |
Location, Location, Location Insurers' capability to respond quickly to catastrophes - on whatever scale - is extremely relevant to their mission. |
Geotimes
February 2007
Richard J. Murnane |
Science, Catastrophe Risk Models and Insurance An appreciation of how scientific research is used in the insurance industry's catastrophe risk models provides some insight on the relationship between geoscience and insurance. |
Insurance & Technology
May 3, 2006
Maria Woehr |
Mapping Out Risks Seeing that many reinsurance executives want the convenience of conducting risk analysis themselves, Guy Carpenter & Company, part of Marsh & McLennan Companies, has launched the online risk management platform i-aXis. |
This Old House
David Dobbs |
Weathering the Storm Ask these questions to choose the right catastrophe insurance. |
The Motley Fool
February 21, 2007
Emil Lee |
Platinum Underwriters Dazzles Thanks to an absence of major catastrophes, Platinum Underwriters had a great 2006 and provided a relatively strong outlook for 2007. Investors, take note. |
CFO
April 1, 2003
David M. Katz |
Holes in the Net? Insurers' woes are mounting -- and your company's coverage may be at risk. |
Knowledge@Wharton
May 7, 2003 |
To Pay or Not to Pay: Business Weighs the Cost of Terrorism Coverage Nearly two years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, businesses continue to evaluate the threat of another catastrophe and try to gauge their own exposure to it. |
Insurance & Technology
January 31, 2007
Anthony O'Donnell |
RMS Faces Heat in Florida Catastrophe modeler RMS finds itself in the midst of an acrimonious conflict between the State of Florida and P&C insurers about rising property insurance rates. |
The Motley Fool
June 18, 2007
Emil Lee |
Disaster Preparedness: Are Insurers Ready for the Big One? With private insurers withdrawing from the coastal areas, leaving the taxpayers holding the bag, one wonders: What should investors do if the big one does hit? |
Insurance & Technology
November 28, 2005
Maria Woehr |
Tracking Super Cats The devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina will prompt more insurers to work with super catastrophe, or Super Cat, modeling. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 19, 2011
Maggie Starvish |
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers? Insurance "reinsurers" underwrite much of the catastrophic risk insurance. Problem is, says Harvard Business School Professor Kenneth A. Froot, reinsurers themselves are in danger of failing from a major catastrophic event. |
National Real Estate Investor
July 1, 2006
Parke M. Chapman |
An Insurance Storm One month into hurricane season, commercial property owners along the Gulf and Florida coasts are coming to grips with the jaw-dropping costs of insuring against future hurricanes. |
Insurance & Technology
November 14, 2007
Frank Nutter |
Reinsurers Need To Address Catastrophe Risk and Regulatory Issues in 2008 Although reinsurers have been very responsive to the demand for risk transfer from the primary insurance companies in the past, it is a continually growing market demand |
The Motley Fool
June 29, 2011
Michael Olsen |
Hard Times, Hardening Markets? Insurers could be about to toughen up and raise rates. |
BusinessWeek
May 14, 2007
Coy & Aston |
Hurricane Ahead, But Lower Insurance Why the price of property coverage is going down in the face of dire predictions. |
The Motley Fool
March 11, 2011
Matt Koppenheffer |
Flagstone Reinsurance Shares Plunged: What You Need to Know Shares of insurer Flagstone Reinsurance were quaking today, losing as much as 11% after an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and a huge tsunami hit Japan. |
Insurance & Technology
February 10, 2009
Anthony O'Donnell |
Business Intelligence Makes Insurers More-Competitive Risk Managers For most insurers, business intelligence means point solutions at best. But those carriers that weave analytics into the fabric of their organizations are equipped to drive more precision in pricing and greater profitability to the bottom line. |
BusinessWeek
January 16, 2006
Peter Coy |
How Hedge Funds Are Taking On Mother Nature Hedge funds hope to cash in on catastrophe insurance, whose price has zoomed since Katrina wreaked $38 billion in insured losses. |
The Motley Fool
February 7, 2008
Emil Lee |
RenaissanceRe Braces for Dark Ages Reinsurer RenaissanceRe held up well in the fourth quarter of 2007, but the industry faces tough headwinds going forward. |
The Motley Fool
June 18, 2007
Emil Lee |
Profit From Disaster? Here are some investment strategies for playing a possible insurance industry downturn. |
Insurance & Technology
March 9, 2007
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
The Reinsurance Industry Looks Beyond Transaction Processing to Innovative Automation and Better Risk Management Here, experts discuss how the reinsurance industry is looking to automate information to improve risk management, business intelligence, workflow, claims and service. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2003
Traci Purdum |
Preparing For The Worst Turbulent times call for manufacturers to assess their risks when it comes to potential terrorist attacks. |
The Motley Fool
August 16, 2004
Bill Mann |
Charley Smacks Florida, Insurers The hurricane unleashed its fury on Florida. The residual impact shouldn't be as bad as Andrew's. This time, the insurance companies were ready. |
Insurance & Technology
November 15, 2007
Katherine Burger |
Insurers' Technology Investments Transform Catastrophe Claims Management Strategies While technology's power is welcomed by the public, politicians and the media in terms of catastrophe claims response, it's not always so appreciated when it comes to how insurers deploy it to forecast, analyze and underwrite risks. |
CFO
Russ Banham |
Pray As You Go Without a government safety net, companies are left with little coverage against terrorist attacks... |
Insurance & Technology
February 4, 2009
Anthony O'Donnell |
Willis Re Launches Next-Gen Portfolio Management Platform Insurance carriers that adopt Willis Re's conNext single Web-based platform for portfolio management can dispense with multiple, disparate products for mapping, reporting and performance monitoring. |
The Motley Fool
June 9, 2006
Selena Maranjian |
Some Insurance Companies Feel Underinsured Homeowners: heads-up -- some insurers are ceasing to insure against certain calamities. |
Insurance & Technology
November 19, 2007
David A. Sampson |
Public Partnerships Critical For Insurers in Catastrophe-prone Regions Creating public/private financial partnerships is a critical step in stabilizing property insurance markets in catastrophe-prone regions of the U.S. |
BusinessWeek
September 26, 2005
Aaron Pressman |
An Unbreached Financial Levee Hurricane Katrina wasn't powerful enough to trigger losses in catastrophe bonds. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2007
David Hofman |
Time to Master Disaster Natural disasters can have far-reaching negative effects on macroeconomic conditions in affected countries. Innovations in insurance can help countries manage the fiscal impact of natural disasters. |
The Motley Fool
December 23, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
How Travelers Weathered a Tough 2011 Shareholders are still happy, as the company managed to eke out a modest gain this year. |
The Motley Fool
February 15, 2007
Buz Livingston |
Katrina Winds Still Blowin' State Farm is suspending sales of all new commercial and homeowner policies in the state of Mississippi. The effect of this could ripple across the nation as insurers will be forced to pay higher premiums for catastrophe coverage. |
The Motley Fool
February 8, 2007
Emil Lee |
AXIS Shoots the Lights Out AXIS seems to be a solid insurer, and it's impressively managed -- enough to still make a profit last year. But even though the company has posted a stellar 17% average ROE since its inception, don't expect a gaudy 26.7% ROE every year. |
Insurance & Technology
April 6, 2006
Maria Woehr |
Cover Your Assets Insurers must focus on internal risk management rather than depend on the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, which is set to expire in two years, to mitigate losses from a terrorist attack, according to Risk Management Solutions. |
The Motley Fool
March 24, 2004
Mark Mahorney |
The Cost of Terrorism What does insurers' exposure to terrorism really mean to investors? |
Insurance & Technology
September 7, 2007
Susana Schwartz |
Main Driver Behind STP Initiatives Today Is Ease Of Doing Business Straight-through processing is more a business issue than a technology, and is fundamental to the ability to drive intelligence into the underwriting process and throughout the organization. |
The Motley Fool
November 27, 2006
Buz Livingston |
Berkshire Thankful to Mother Nature Berkshire's pricing, along with the dearth of reinsurance, has spurred rapid growth in the "catastrophe bond" market. |
Insurance & Technology
March 9, 2007
Nathan Conz |
Travelers Deploys Mobile Catastrophe Units to Respond to Florida Tornadoes By deploying mobile claims vehicles to the recent tornado-damaged central Florida region, the P&C insurance provider was able to focus its response efforts and minimize claims adjustment lag time. |
Insurance & Technology
December 20, 2004
Anthony O'Donnell |
Back To Business NFS Speeds Applications... Glatfelter Selects Insurity... Claims Integration... Preparing for The Worst... Full Support... |
Insurance & Technology
April 5, 2010
Anthony O'Donnell |
Recent Natural Catastrophes Should Alert U.S. Insurers to Dangers Experience with seismic events mitigated the human and property toll of the February Chile earthquake -- lessons that should inform insurers' planning in parts of the U.S. |
Insurance & Technology
May 11, 2009
Nathan Conz |
AXA UK Launches Underwriting Tool AXA Insurance has implemented a risk identification and assessment tool from Mapflow. |
Insurance & Technology
December 6, 2007
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Automating Underwriting: Moving From Art to Science Automating underwriting can help insurers bring more objectivity and discipline to the process, define appropriate risk parameters and price products accordingly while improving efficiency, according to this panel of industry experts. |
U.S. Banker
August 2002
Michael Sisk |
The Reinsurance Rush With nearly $30 billion in new capital, start-ups step in where others fear to tread in the wake of terror. |
National Real Estate Investor
February 1, 2003
Thomas Bisacquino |
A Much-Needed Morale Boost For more than a year, organizations representing commercial real estate owners pressed for enactment of The Terrorism Insurance Act of 2002. The bill, signed into law by President George W. Bush late last year, gives the industry a shot of optimism needed for a faster recovery. |
The Motley Fool
September 9, 2005
Bill Mann |
Insurance Disaster Scenario: Meet Stan Insurance companies that made it through the storm of the century intact might not survive a second blow. It's one area of investment where gambling on marginal players carries substantially higher levels of risk. |
Insurance & Technology
February 6, 2008
Anthony O'Donnell |
Insurers Seek Competitive Edge Through Underwriting Analytics Underwriters have come to appreciate technology much the way agents have. |
The Motley Fool
October 26, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
W.R. Berkley: Bold Yet Beautiful? For investors who want a bit of growth and are willing to take on some risk, this insurer might be worth some thorough due diligence. |
The Motley Fool
July 29, 2011
Michael Olsen |
Sunnier Times in Berkley? Are the insurance markets ready for a turnaround? |
