Insurers Must Prepare Now for El Niño Season By David Prejeant With El Niño forecast at 80% and AI-driven fraud rising, carriers must act now before disaster season arrives.
How Climate Change Supercharges Hail Risk in Europe By Daniel Bannister Jannick Fischer Climate change may intensify Europe's hailstorms through stronger updrafts and larger hailstones, though regional trends remain uncertain.
Underwriting on Climate Must Evolve By Dr. Mariella Ekström Climate models weren't built to predict insurance losses, so underwriters are having to rethink risk management.
It's Back to First Principles for Insurance By Manjunath Krishna Insurance is scaling into cyber, climate and AI risks faster than the first principles of insurability can adapt.
Insurance Built a Model for the Wrong Kind of Natural Disaster By Siddhartha Jha With secondary perils accounting for 92% of losses, traditional catastrophe reinsurance architecture is fundamentally misaligned with modern risk.
Organizations Must Plan for Climate Tipping Points By Torolf Hamm Organizations must incorporate climate tipping points into risk planning as scientific focus shifts from if to when they'll occur.
Insurance Risks Being Left Behind By Dominique Roudaut Widening protection gaps demand insurers transform from risk transfer to resilience providers or face existential decline.
Don't Be Fooled by 2025's CAT Losses By Cameron Rye Modest catastrophe losses in 2025 mask escalating climate risk, testing whether insurers will use this respite to prepare or relax.
The Promise of Continuous Underwriting By Bill Deemer Bobby Touran Typically, a risk is underwritten, bound... and forgotten. But new streams of data and automation allow for continuous underwriting.
Convergence and the Insurance Ecosystem By Stephen Applebaum Alan Demers Companies must anticipate the future, innovate beyond their core and transform their capabilities as rapidly as technology allows.
Lemonade's 'Synthetic Agent' Nonsense By Matteo Carbone Desperate for growth, Lemonade produces another howler: A lender receiving a 16% interest rate is presented as a (synthetic) agent.
Auto Insurance in an Existential Crisis By Stephen Applebaum Alan Demers The 125-year-old, $300 billion U.S. auto insurance industry is caught between runaway inflation and strained consumer wallets.