Underwriting

6 People on the Move

Ascot picks up John O’Brien; John Heveran takes tech role at Liberty Mutual; Simon Tardif joins aviation role with Swiss Re; Suzannah Gill of EPIC earns health benefits certification; Peppia Gates joins Texas Mutual; RT Specialty names Joe Reynolds as AVP.

7 Ways Not to Screw Up Your Next Property Renewal

Your Data Is Vital to You, But Do You Know How Much It’s Really Worth?

Emerging Technology Redraws Lines of Risk, Challenges the Underwriting Paradigm

With Trade Wars on the Horizon, You Should Be Using This Type of Insurance

The Road to Insuring Self-Driving Cars Will Be Long and Winding

Recently in Underwriting

Reauthorization Looms for NFIP, Calls for Greater Private Sector Involvement

Big storms add urgency to reforms on transparency and repeat claims.

Could Have Been Worse

“What if” scenarios are affecting premiums just as much as actual events.

Specialty Insurance: The Domain of Humans

How long before specialty underwriters are replaced by computers?

The Relevance of Lloyd’s

It’s worth a visit to Lloyd’s to get a reminder of its relevance and potential.

7 Questions for Karen Caulfield on Equipment Breakdown

In this coverage spotlight, an equipment breakdown underwriter sat down with R&I to discuss the ins and outs of covered losses due to mechanical or electrical breakdown.

Aon Provides Flood Guidance

Aon produced an agents’ guide covering newly-effective changes to the National Flood Insurance Program

Programs Flourishing

A growing sector gathers for its annual meeting in Scottsdale.

Qualitative Underwriting

The modern insurance industry is seeing volatility like it has never seen before.

Country Credit Risk Guru

XL Catlin’s Simon Argent leads a team that is giving the company’s business leaders much better information on political and credit risk.

Trade Credit Insurance Bolsters Supply Chains

Key drivers are increased retail distress, but also bank eagerness to monetize.

The Legacy of Goldfinger

One of Lloyd’s most controversial and successful underwriters was the quintessential maverick.

Introducing the WSIA and its Annual Marketplace

The AAMGA and NAPSLO merged to create the Wholesale & Specialty Insurance Association — a member services organization servicing the wholesale, specialty and surplus lines industry.

Technology Takes Center Stage in Tokyo

IUMI’s annual meeting in September will offer a rare glimpse into local markets.

Separating Substance From Hype

Tech startups and data wizards are claiming to make insurance modern, agile, and friendly. Will they succeed where other tech waves have failed?

Trade Credit Insurance Blossoms at Last in the U.S.

Key drivers include retail distress and eagerness on the part of banks to monetize.

Is Your Plant Ready for a Cyber Attack that Causes Physical Damage?

Underwriters and risk managers are beginning to get their arms around the next wave of cyber exposure — an attack that causes property or bodily damage.

Four Questions for Aspen’s Pat Hickey

Accumulation risk due to the increased size of marine vessels is something marine underwriters are keeping a keen eye on.

Fresh Worries for Boards of Directors

New cyber security regulations increase exposure for directors and officers at financial institutions.

Tech Challenges for Surety

As technology becomes more integrated into construction, surety underwriters need more comfort and clarity.

Seven Questions for Richard Sheldon

Mold, emerging contaminants, and increasing claims complexity are all issues to watch in the area of environmental risk.

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