The advancement of climate change, ongoing macro-economic variations and the fact that an aging population will be increasingly in need of long-term care options, will call for best-in-class risk management in the nursing home sector.

As climate change events increase in frequency and severity, insurance companies have no choice but to shift their underwriting and investment focus.

Risk managers and their brokers are restructuring their liability programs as markets shift and underwriters take a closer look at exposures.

The Hartford’s new global research offering is slated to offer a heightened view of global market dynamics and geopolitical risks that will inform international underwriting and business decisions well into the future.

Steel City Re co-founder Nir Kossovsky discusses the possibility that class action filings will increase after recent stock market volatility.

The gap between what companies say they are doing around ESG and what they are actually doing may itself prove to be a potent risk.

Risk & Insurance® sat down with The Hartford’s Mo Tooker to discuss everything from the state of supply chain risk to inflationary pressure for insureds. 

Swiss Re’s Ivan Gonzalez spoke with Risk & Insurance about inflation, climate change and property insurance, among other topics.

Black Kite gives roughly 26% of insurers an “A” grade for their cyber posture, but the remaining 73% are three times more likely to experience a cyber breach.

We are working hard every single day to try to solve the problems in an ever-changing and volatile risk environment and we’re building for the future.

The company’s guidance for 2022 calls for organic revenue growth of between 13% and 15%, compared to organic growth of 22.4% in 2021.

Results included a core operating income rounding out to $1.65 billion and underwriting income reaching $1.27 billion. 

Today, we are making great strides in leveraging technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), which are being implemented alongside the OED standard to amplify the benefits to organizations.

Construction insurance pricing is being impacted by several risks of note that underwriters must review.

The four issues they were most excited about were new products and services; automation and the use of AI for improving underwriting performance; new data sources; and ESG considerations.

Like many professional organizations, the CPCU Society has been challenged in recent years by a decreasing membership base. The president-elect of the Society’s leadership council has some ideas on how to reverse that trend.

Rather than searching for permutations of claims characteristics in swathes of data, you tell the machine to look for claim cohorts that are experiencing unexpected development – and set it off to do the searching.

Are SPACs too new to underwrite? Some say they are not. Others urge caution as the special purpose acquisition companies are at minimum complex to underwrite

Market conditions have made insurance a key financial tool for private equity firms navigating today’s ever-changing risk landscape.

Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance stepped up to help insure pop-up COVID clinics, playing a small but critical role in battling the pandemic.