Insurance

As you might imagine, the construction industry has the greatest number of both fatal and nonfatal traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) in U.S. workplaces. A total of 2,210 construction workers died because of a TBI from...

In today’s competitive landscape, it’s critical for insurers to keep loss costs under control—not only through fast, fair, and consistent claims resolution but also by helping to reduce the number of claims. Educating...

As of this writing, firefighters are still battling the Fort McMurray fire in Western Canada, and authorities are restricting access to the area. The fire is a major incident, and Verisk’s Property Claim Services ® (P...

Engineering and Safety Service (E&S ™ ) held our annual E&S Loss Control Executive Forum on April 6–8 in Tampa, Florida, and it was a great success. Forty senior-level loss professionals and guests from more than 30...

In an interview with A.M. Best Radio , Neil Spector, president of Underwriting Solutions for Verisk – insurance solutions, shares his perspectives on the future of usage-based insurance (UBI) and discusses why he...

At the Uniglobal Insurance Claims Management Conference, I heard a lot of doom and gloom about the future of claim handling—and the future of the insurance industry in general. New business models are poised to enter...

We’ve put another record-setting quarter  for catastrophe bond issuance behind us, with $2 billion in fresh capital coming to market. In some ways, the first quarter of 2016 offered more of the same, with no first-tim...

Last week, the short list for the Insurance Marketing and PR Awards was published, and its my pleasure to congratulate the ISO Claims Analytics marketing team for making the cut. This group of savvy and innovative...

Is the insurance industry watching developments in blockchain  technology? Some of our folks in the market are, but it’s pretty clear to me that the focus is the other way around. The blockchain community has its eye ...

Insurers that write private passenger automobile and residential property insurance offering six months or longer of coverage are now subject to an expanded policyholder notice requirement. This requirement was enacte...