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Sustainable underwriting: How insurers can account for ESG risks and enable dynamic pricing
ESG is becoming increasingly prevalent in insurance, both as a source of new risk and of strategic opportunity. This content highlights how insurers can develop meaningful ESG scores for rating and pricing risk by integrating data from a diverse range of sources and automating workflows.
The resurgence of reinsurance
Reinsurance plays a key role in the well-being of insurers and when managed adroitly provides critical solutions in the long term. This whitepaper focuses on the resurgence of reinsurance and three important considerations when managing reinsurance, especially during a time of crisis and change.
Pet insurance - The Duck Creek way
It is anticipated that the pet insurance industry in the UK will see accelerated growth, with some estimates suggesting that by 2025 the sector will generate £1.5 billion gross premium per year. This blog shines a light on the differentials that Duck Creek offers to pet insurers in the market.
What do insurance, politics and civil unrest have in common?
Civil unrest has doubled in the last decade and general strikes have quadrupled. This blog outlines the link between insurance and business interruption caused by civil unrest.
Reinsuring a war: The Ukraine invasion and its impact on insurance
Estimating the damage, risk assessments and the uncertainty of how the Ukraine war will unfold calls for insurers and reinsurers to adapt policies, claims and underwriting processes to a new reality. This blog highlights the potential implications for the insurance and reinsurance markets.
Intelligence: Protect Duty legislation
Protect Duty legislation has been touted as a way to reduce the potential for catastrophic events from terrorist attacks at publicly accessible locations, and it is likely to affect public and employers’ liability policies. This article sheds light on the latest developments.
Schemes and delegated authority partners: The importance of the right chemistry
Responding to customers’ changing needs is the number one motivator for insurers in their approach to developing products with schemes and delegated authority partners. In this article, AXA UK’s Gary Head explains why the formula must be right to achieve long-term success.
Building trust in analytics: What role should insurers play?
As hidden bias in data and models comes under greater scrutiny, the integrity of analytic processes used by insurance companies is being called into question. This report focuses on the proactive steps the insurance industry can take to become a beacon for the ethical use of advanced analytics.
Why the human touch remains integral to the underwriting profession
This article highlights why the personal touch will never go out of style in insurance and why the human touch remains integral to the underwriting profession.
MGAs' secret sauce is a recipe for success
In this article, Pen Underwriting’s Tom Downey highlights why the managing general agents sector is in rude health and why talent is one of the many key ingredients helping to keep the market “en vogue”.