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Jared Shelly is a journalist based in Philadelphia. He can be reached at [email protected].
Experts have developed a rating system for a newly studied weather phenomenon called atmospheric rivers — long, narrow collections of water vapor that cause rain and snow.
The number of weather disasters costing $1 billion or more is increasing at an alarming rate.
Businesses will certainly want to insure catastrophe-related crop damage as well as keep supply chain coverage, but that could be difficult to insure as climate change continues its devastating wrath.
Insurers can simply buy analyses from satellite operators, using that information for assess damage or find wrongdoing.
McKinsey & Company took pains to outline the numerous ways that Artificial Intelligence will change commercial insurance.
MIT researchers conclude that machine learning has the potential to create great efficiencies; that goes for its use in insurance too.
Manure used as fertilizer has led to the contamination of drinking water, lacing rural American’s wells with bacteria and nitrates.
With growing risk of concussions and other traumatic brain injury, the football industry is looking at a shrinking pool of insurers willing to underwrite its risks.
AI is poised to take the actionability of data and the accuracy of insurance underwriting to the next level. And that’s a win for everyone.
Elizabeth Holmes tricked investors out of millions by dressing in ‘Steve Jobs’ black and pitching health care technology that didn’t work. The risk management lessons from the Theranos fiasco are both scary and insightful.
The number of African Americans in insurance is small. On top of that, this group faces continued unconscious bias and a lack of mentors in the industry.
Monmouth County, New Jersey, used a combination of advanced technology and safety-and-wellness programs to lower claims 44 percent and losses by 76 percent from 2009 to 2017.
Pinnacle’s Jim Cunningham, a 2018 Risk All Star winner, displayed a persistent, pragmatic approach to controlling losses.
Kevin Farthing, a 2018 Risk All Star, solved his staff’s high rate of musculoskeletal injuries, saving more than $500K in annual workers’ comp costs.
Tim Fischer was given nine months to address the risk implications of a sizable spin-off.