As Doctors Prescribe Fewer Opioids for Injured Workers, What Do They Offer Instead? June 4, 2020 By Andrew G. Simpson The good news is that doctors are less likely to prescribe opioids to injured workers than they were years ago....
UK Brokers Rely on Face-to-Face Meetings, Hampering Client Support During Lockdown June 3, 2020 Brokers have been slow to adopt social media and digital technologies as a whole, which is hampering their ability to...
How Family-Work-Neighbor Networks May Make Things Worse in Disaster Response June 2, 2020 Faced with a common peril, people delay making decisions that might save lives, fail to alert each other to danger...
Pandemic Stay-at-Home Experience Raises P/C Insurers’ Bar for Delivering Digitally June 2, 2020 Significant investments in direct-to-consumer website and mobile design have helped property/casualty insurance companies improve their digital service and shopping experiences....
California Lowers Workers’ Comp COVID Estimate; Expects Claims Drop in Downturn June 1, 2020 The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California on Monday released a study looking at the historic impact of economic...
Thieves Find Unattended Autos Easy Targets During Coronavirus Sheltering-at-Home May 28, 2020 By Stefanie Dazio The coronavirus hasn’t been kind to car owners. With more people than ever staying home to lessen the spread of...
Driving Hasn’t Found Its New Normal Yet: Opinion May 28, 2020 By Nathaniel Bullard, Bloomberg Opinion Memorial Day weekend, the typical start of the U.S. summer driving season, has come and gone. Data on just how...
Join the Big Coronavirus Survey for the Entire Property/Casualty Insurance Industry May 27, 2020 How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting you, your life, your work and your industry? Now and going forward? No matter...
Reinsurers Will Fail to Earn Cost of Capital in 2020, Leading to More Rate Hikes: Fitch May 27, 2020 Global reinsurers will fail to earn its cost of capital in 2020 amid the coronavirus crisis, which will help maintain...
What’s a Life Worth? America Weighs Costs, Benefits of Social Distancing May 25, 2020 By Michael Tackett We are becoming a nation of amateur actuaries, calculating the risk of restarting our lives. Can we go outside? Can...