What does a risk manager do? Very simply, a risk manager improves the bottom line by making risk less risky. Maybe that doesn’t make as much sense as I thought it did. Let me back up a step and give …
Last week, we started a conversation about flood coverage. If you missed last week’s blog, go back and read it now. We’ll wait for you. To sum up last week’s blog, I believe that the standard market could cover flood …
We’re all insurance people here, right? OK, so let’s play a word association game. I’ll give you a word and you think about the first word that comes to mind. Ready? Flood. It’ll be interesting to see what you thought …
Thank you, Kevin Ring, for this guest post. Kevin is our guest instructor this week at Insurance Journal’s Academy of Insurance and is Lead Workers’ Compensation Analyst at the Institute for WorkComp Professionals. Insurance agents have many opportunities to make …
The start of hurricane season made me think about a topic that many of us don’t often think about in P&C insurance: residual markets. The 21st century insurance marketplace in the US is nominally a free market, but we all …
For the first time in several years, I didn’t get tense because June 1 was coming. In fact, I totally missed June 1 until June 2. I totally forgot about June 1. Oh, right. You may not be thinking about …
I am writing this to announce that we have completed our report on the State of Learning in Insurance. I’m excited about this for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it’s the first big thing …
I took a short trip down memory lane recently by checking out the Academy’s blog on Insurance Journal. (I’d link to it, but if you’re reading this, you already know where it is) I just realized that I’ve been writing …
This morning while I’m sitting in my office writing this post, I’m thinking about wildfires. According to the ArcGIS website, there are 24 active wildfires in the US. 17 of them are in the state of Florida. That includes the …
This week’s post has been something of a struggle for me. I’ve had to catch up on a lot of terminology and the progress that has been made in the autonomous vehicle world. In way, it has always seemed like …
