U.S. Insurers Now Among Major Buyers of ETFs: JP Morgan November 21, 2016 By Dani Burger and Sonali Basak The booming demand for hot exchange-traded funds has finally caught up with the staid, sleepy insurance industry. U.S. insurers are...
New Zealand EQ Insured Losses Could Top $3B: AIR Worldwide November 18, 2016 Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide released its initial estimates of industry insured losses from the earthquake that struck New Zealand’s...
Jones: Undocumented License Law in California May Have Led to UM Drop November 17, 2016 California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced today that Assembly Bill 60, a law which provided driver’s licenses to those who...
Affordable Care Act Does Not Crowd Out Workers’ Compensation Claimants: NCCI Research November 15, 2016 By Andrew G. Simpson New industry research has found that while the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has dramatically increased the number...
Report: Big One Along Full-length of San Andreas Could be Quite Destructive November 15, 2016 By Don Jergler A large earthquake along the San Andreas fault impacting both Northern and Southern California at the same time could wreak...
Drone Makers Shift to Commercial Uses as Consumer Market Crashes November 14, 2016 By Heather Somerville The fledgling drone industry is in the throes of change as weak consumer demand and falling prices drive startups to...
What Happens When Golf Carts Hit the Streets November 10, 2016 By Jenni Bergal, Stateline At retirement communities from California to Florida, golf carts have become a way of life. They’re energy-efficient, cheaper to buy...
P/C Insurance Execs See Growth Coming from Technology Innovation, New Products November 10, 2016 Technology innovation will provide the biggest growth opportunities for reinsurers in the year ahead, according to a survey by Guy...
Hurricane Matthew Could Cost US & Caribbean Economies $15B: Aon Benfield November 10, 2016 Hurricane Matthew, which swept through parts of the Caribbean and United States, had total economic losses of up to US$15...
Oklahoma’s Fracking-Linked Earthquakes Raise National Security, Energy Concerns November 8, 2016 By Matthew Philips Sunday night’s 5.0 magnitude earthquake that hit Cushing, Okla., is the latest and, in some ways, the most troubling in...