Underwriting

Why One Environmental Underwriter Wants You to Take PFAS Seriously

Toby Smith of Ironshore Environmental explains how the market should react to this emerging contaminant, and why it’s important to stay disciplined.

What Will It Take to Get Actuaries and Underwriters on the Same Page?

Here’s Why Reps and Warranties Insurance in a Health Care Merger Is a Must

Kiss Your Annual Renewal Goodbye; On-Demand Insurance Challenges the Traditional Policy

Machine Learning Could Make Hackers Practically Unstoppable: Are You Ready?

How Insurers Are Using AI to Better Protect and Serve

Recently in Underwriting

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.

IUMI: Major Vessel Loss Trends

Major vessel loss frequency and cost trends pressure marine underwriters.

Serving Up Risk

Food delivery is a huge trend in the restaurant business. But the road is paved with risk.

The Buzz Over Bonds

Bonding requirements in the weed business are wildly inconsistent and sometimes seem biased against the industry.

Hooba-Dooba! Digital Health Care Reality

The “rewards” of digital medicine will not come without risk.

A Clearer View of Location Risk

How location intelligence will reshape the future of commercial property underwriting.

Cyber Risk Aggregation Tools

New cyber model platforms will help insurers better manage aggregation risk within their books of business.

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