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11:26

AM Best: Hurricane Milton To Pose Severe Challenge...

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2024/10/16

AM Best Associate Director David Blades and Senior Industry Analyst Christopher Graham discuss a new Best's Commentary that finds newly formed take carriers will be severely tested as affordability and availability issues will be exacerbated.

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8:18

Swiss Re’s Sprackling: Covid Pandemic has been...

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2024/10/15

Neil Sprackling, CEO US Life and Health, Swiss Re says that despite projected excess mortality continuing in the US for the next 10 years, COVID-19 pandemic-linked excess mortality may disappear by 2028, reverting to pre-pandemic expectations.

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14:10

KCC’s Clark: Milton Could Have Caused Worst-Case...

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2024/10/14

Karen Clark, co-founder and CEO of risk modeler KCC, said that while Hurricane Milton and accompanying tornadoes ravaged Florida significantly, the results could have been much worse.

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14:03

E&S Panel at WSIA: Climate Risks, Emerging...

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2024/10/11

A panel gathered by AM Best TV at the WSIA Annual Marketplace conference in San Diego said the excess and surplus sector has evolved from being perceived as a market for hard-to-place risks to becoming a staple in the insurance community.

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8:55

Munich Re’s Blanco: D&O Defense Costs Rising

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2024/10/10

Marcia Blanco, head of financial lines at Munich Re Specialty, said as a result of regulatory claims, defense costs for directors and officers have skyrocketed.

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6:47

AM Best: US Property/Casualty Mutuals Resilient...

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2024/10/09

AM Best Financial Analyst Lauren Magro discusses a new Best's Market Segment Report finding that P/C mutuals report surplus growth, and pursue rate adequacy amid another year of increasing severe storm frequency.

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6:10

HSB’s Law: SMEs Lacking in Cyber Coverage

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2024/10/08

Dan Law, head of the cyber practice at HSB, said small and medium enterprise businesses have been slow to adopt cyber protection into their coverage, however insurers need to focus on bringing a product to that market that makes sense.

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16:37

NAMIC's Alldredge: P/C Mutual Sector Sees...

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2024/10/07

Neil Alldredge, president & CEO, NAMIC, said that while new mutual formations are rare, existing companies are expanding into new lines of business and geographic areas. Alldredge spoke with AM Best TV at NAMIC's 129th Annual Convention, held in Denver.

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11:28

Innovation Panel: The Future of E&S Risk Assessment...

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2024/10/04

The panel also addressed potential pitfalls of innovation, such as the challenges of pricing products before knowing their true cost and the need for strong balance sheets to support innovative ventures. Panelists spoke with AM Best TV at the WSIA Annual Marketplace in San Diego.

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9:51

Podcasters Inform Washington State Insurance Consumers

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2024/10/02

Aaron VanTuyl and Matt Baide, podcast hosts, Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner, discuss the "OIC Answers" podcast that seeks to inform Evergreen State consumers on a wide range of insurance topics.

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9:57

Issues & Answers: A Matter of Fairness

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2024/10/01

Gary Wang, senior consulting actuary for Pinnacle Actuarial Resources, said that the issue of fairness is a very common social discussion that’s taking place across a wide spectrum of industries, and insurance is part of that.

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8:47

AM Best: Changing Trends Continue to Push Demand for...

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2024/09/30

AM Best Director Doniella Pliss highlights a new Best's Market Segment Report that finds growing health care utilization and medical inflation are expanding the role of health reinsurance.

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3:29

Everest's Andrade: Reinsurers, Clients Adapt to 'New...

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2024/09/27

Juan Andrade, president & CEO, Everest Group, said concerns about social inflation and legal-system abuse are contributing to increased severity in claims across the industry. Andrade spoke with AM Best TV at the Rendez-Vous de Septembre conference in Monte Carlo.

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9:05

AM Best: Workers' Compensation Winning Streak Continues

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2024/09/25

David Blades, associate director, and Christopher Graham, senior industry analyst, both of AM Best, highlight a Best’s Market Segment Report that finds profits continued in 2023 and conditions are right for another strong year in 2024.

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6:20

Travelers’ Baker: Private Companies Face Different...

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2024/09/24

Patrick Baker, private directors and officers product manager at Travelers, discusses the different exposures private companies face compared with their publicly traded counterparts.

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13:56

KCC Estimates $50 Billion in 2024 Insured US Losses

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2024/09/23

Karen Clark, founder of catastrophe modeler KCC, discusses the amount of insured losses so far in 2024, about $40 billion of which she attributes to convective storm activity.

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13:27

Munich Re’s Grimm Assessment: Nat Cat Losses on the Rise

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2024/09/20

Tobias Grimm, head of climate advisory and natural catastrophe data with Munich Re’s climate change solutions department, says that the first half of 2024 has been a costly year for P/C insurers due to increased tornado activity and regional weather extreme events.

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15:09

Issues & Answers: AI Adoption in Insurance

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2024/09/06

Manish Khetan, president and co-founder of Xceedance, said that the speed at which artificial intelligence technologies have grown has allowed insurance companies to evolve faster than ever.

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13:22

Issues & Answers: Winds of Change

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2024/09/04

Tim Antonelli, head of insurance multi-asset strategy for Wellington Management, says insurers should refocus their investment efforts to be more dynamic and opportunistic.

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8:35

Issues & Answers: Effective Asset Management

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2024/09/03

Matt Daly, managing director, head of Conning North America said that the higher interest rate environment has been impacting clients.

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