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Roger Crombie is a United Kingdom-based columnist for Risk & Insurance®. He can be reached at [email protected].
Would you buy a plot on the sun on eBay? How the slightly ridiculous can become the completely deranged.
Modernizing operations, appealing to emerging markets and leveraging the growing need for cyber protection were among the suggestions.
It’s doubtful that insurers (or any other industry) are well served by deliberately ignoring outliers.
A lack of available data hamstrings cyber-risk underwriting, no matter what the exposure.
Directors are often unaware of the terms and conditions applicable to their coverage.
Roger Crombie suggests that insurance policies may need to include trigger warnings.
A $250 million difference lies between proper and improper wording.
Much has changed since the 1950s, but some aspects of the insurance industry — counter-cyclical to the bone — still resemble that time.
Proceeds from a life insurance policy — a gift from past “me”s — have evolved over time, sometimes unpredictably.
Fear of robots — for varying reasons — has grown. The reality is that there will be change, some of it metallic and scary, but we will adapt.
The risks created by technology are beyond anyone’s capacity to measure.
In the system we call capitalism, the prudent carry the profligate like hapless passengers.
The infantilization of modern adulthood is a hidden stressor for the insurance industry.
The sort of behavior that would have the average Joe locked up seems quite acceptable when someone’s making a buck off it.
Political correctness may have good intentions, but the results lead to perdition.
Insurance companies’ labyrinthine numbering systems leave room for error.
Best insurance headline: “Lawsuit: Man Choked on Live Fish at Haunted House.”
A million years of human progress wiped out by the iPhone.
Will the U.K. insurance industry face the same regulatory fate as the British press?
In well- run companies, everyone is “essential personnel.”
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