Natural catastrophes are not only having a significant impact on insurers’ property portfolios but have also increasingly begun to spill over.
Researching why some risks fade while others mushroom into multi-billion dollar events can help identify and prioritize future threats.
For meat lovers, the Fourth of July has historically been a perfect excuse to throw some steaks on the backyard grill. And those steaks usually come from actual cattle.…
Blockchain technology has been getting a lot of attention recently, beyond just its role as the technology underlying “virtual currencies” like Bitcoin. Some have…
Data from recently reported fatal crashes involving semi- and fully autonomous vehicles suggests that the “self-driving” cars now on the road may represent distracted…
It seems not a day goes by without a cyber breach reported somewhere around the globe. Insurers are thinking about cybersecurity too, if the past five ISO Emerging Issues…
What emerging risks most concern insurers? This year, data breaches topped ISO's Emerging Issues Bracket.
Read all of the articles in the Visualize series, From Seed to smoke: Risks across the marijuana supply chain, by Lucian McMahon, CPCU, ARM-E, AU-M, product development…
Marijuana is currently listed as a Schedule I drug under the federal Controlled Substances Act of 1970 (CSA), which defines Schedule I as drugs “with no currently…
We discuss some considerations related to marijuana use and employment-related issues, including workers’ compensation.
The continuing Verisk series on emerging risk discusses some of the risks related to people using marijuana, including driving under the influence and employment-related…
In many states, marijuana sales are being taken out of the back alley and into licensed retail and medical dispensary establishments. In this article from Verisk's…
Marijuana concentrates are exactly what they sound like: products that contain concentrated dosages of the cannabinoids found in marijuana plants.
This is the first article in our series on recreational and medical marijuana, "From Seed to Smoke." In this installment we'll be discuss potential risks in marijuana…
For the first time in ISO Bracket history, cybersecurity didn't win it all. Autonomous vehicles defeated distracted driving in the final round to become the winner of our…