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.

As the world is met with a debilitating pandemic and catastrophic climate events, the insurance industry can serve as a solution to sustainability.

Professional liability, health care and casualty are the three primary underwriting focuses of Bowhead Specialty, founded by serial insurance entrepreneur Stephen Sills.

Technology errors and omissions, product liability and false arrest are just a few of the risks posed by biometric technology.

Cyber coverage specificity is lacking. Brokers, insureds and carriers face a mandate to communicate clearly and craft appropriate coverage.

Mosaic launches a transactional liability underwriting team in the U.S., IGI announces European subsidiary and Towerstone acquires PLUS, Inc.

In May, London-based CFC Underwriting announced that it had named James Burns as head of cyber. Mr. Burns now heads a team of more than 50 underwriters who are devoted to underwriting cyber risk for large corporate clients and SMEs.