Insurance Industry

Climate Change Drives Executive Stress as Business Leaders Navigate Growing External Threats

More than two-thirds of executives feel more stressed in 2025 than the prior year—driven in part by the rising frequency and severity of extreme weather events. Insurance experts say proactive planning and comprehensive coverage strategies can help businesses build resilience against these growing environmental threats.

Philadelphia Insurance Expands Small Business Solutions with New Digital BOP Platform

The Silent Threat in Your Air: Mold and Air Pollutants — and How to Guard Against Them

How Life Science Companies Can Prepare for New EU Regulations
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The Red Hook Fire Art Loss: A Case Study for Knowing Who Your Insurance Broker Is

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Data: The New Player

Regardless of what form data takes, data is and will be the engine that drives market forces now and in the future.

Webinar – Healthcare Insecurity: A Global Growth Impediment

Learn how to bolster a global workforce with the right combination of benefits and insurance coverage to eliminate uncertainty about their health care options.

TPA Consolidation: Is Bigger Always Better?

TPA consolidation in the market creates confusion for some employers. But size isn’t the only criteria that determines fit.

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Compounding and Rampant Care in Workers’ Comp

State oversight can help rein in compounding, but inroads can also be made from within claims payer and managed care organizations.

Talent Crisis Remains a Challenge

Insurance industry eyes millennials as the answer to turnover and coming retirements.

Doubts Buzz Around Rio Olympics

The threat of Zika continues to prompt calls for the cancellation of the 2016 Olympic Games.

Investments in Online Insurance Sales Booming

Start-ups and established insurers are focusing on online, direct sales of insurance to small and medium-sized businesses.

Finding the Next Frontier

Frontier markets show growth potential, but political and economic instability pose risks.

Cannabis Reimbursement Trend Grows

Courts are increasingly leaning in favor of forcing payers to reimburse workers’ comp claimants for medical marijuana.

Insurer Coal Holdings Challenged

California’s chief insurance regulator asks insurers to divest themselves of thermal coal holdings.

Cost Shifting: Candy Stores and Scapegoats

Taking insurance trade groups to task in looking for scapegoats.

Opt-Out Movement Stalls: For Now

With the future of the Oklahoma Option in question, efforts to pass similar plans in other states are also in a holding pattern.

Insurers Face a Busy 2017 or Big Penalties

Data privacy regulations impose strict penalties on noncompliance. The rules impact any company doing business in Europe.

Latin America’s Insurance Industry Advances

Increasingly sophisticated insurance markets in Latin America market will help ensure that the region will continue to grow and prosper,

Basic Business

Innocent, everyday customers are treated as security threats, but that’s business as usual.

Thoughtful Chemistry

The leaders of Willis Towers Watson discuss their hopes for the newly combined organization.

Basking in the Sun Once More

Solvency II equivalency and NAIC’s “qualified jurisdiction” designations help Bermuda strengthen its position as a leading reinsurance domicile.

Brokers: A Buyer’s Market for Captives 

Captives have substantial leverage to upgrade portfolios and enhance coverage.

New Wage and OT Laws May Increase WC Premiums

A higher payroll may mean an increase in premiums. Claims costs may increase as well.

Disney’s Tim East Tapped for NWCDC Keynote

The 2016 opening keynote speaker for NWCDC is passionate about harnessing technology to keep injured workers engaged with their recovery.