Innovative technologies can be transformational for businesses, industries and our way of life, but they also represent risks.
A surge of home renovations in recent years combined with a shortage of contractors is turning more repairs and remodels into never-ending nightmares.
PCS worked with Ariel Re and the structurer, Howden Tiger Capital Markets & Advisory, of the reinsurer’s Titania Re catastrophe bond issuance to create the innovative carbon offset feature, discusses Tom Johansmeyer, Head of PCS, a Verisk business.
Anger over growing social inequality and the cost of living, sinking faith in governments and institutions, and increasingly polarized politics, together with a rise in activism and environmental concerns, are the main factors expected to fuel incidents of strikes, riots and civil commotion (SRCC).
For Dianne Greene, Verisk’s global head of diversity & inclusion, the success of DE&I efforts and committees relies on the ability to adapt.
Electric vehicles (EVs) may keep you from spending an arm and a leg at the gas pump, but you can count on shelling out more cash to insure them – about 25% more than their internal combustion engine counterparts, according to ValuePenguin.
When arch-rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran announced they were restoring diplomatic relations, much of the world was stunned — not only because of the breakthrough after years of mutual animosity, suspected attacks and espionage between the two countries, but because of who brokered the deal: China.
Climate change and cargo theft are two pressing factors that are making the safe transport of food, pharmaceutical products and other sensitive materials more and more challenging.
Gas and oil activity linked to increased earthquake risk across the region...
Insurers need to "get hands dirty" on cyber and other new, more complex risks...
In mid-February, air temperatures 10 to 30 miles above the North Pole spiked as much as 50 degrees, setting in motion a chain-reaction process that’s already influencing the weather over North America.
The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) recently hosted its 2023 IICF Media Roundtable.
Growing up in New England, Leah Ofsevit’s most cherished childhood memories were blanketed in snow.
Bola Tinubu this week fulfilled his life-long ambition to become leader of Nigeria after winning the closest presidential vote since the end of the country’s military dictatorship 24 years ago.
Analysts at JP Morgan have estimated that total natural catastrophe insured losses in Q1 so far are in the region of $6-8 billion.