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AM Best TV & Audio: Lockton Exec: US Commercial Insurance Market Negotiating Increased Competition, Economy, Geopolitics: Also, professionals discuss the solar industry’s need for improved data and risk strategies and the effects of embedded insurance.
AM Best Webinars: Panelists To Examine the Current State of the Surplus Lines Market: Professionals also discuss the recent performance of the captive sector and explore the use of artificial intelligence in insurance marketing.
AM Best’s Media Program – Publisher : In Other News ...: A roundup of news from publishers around the globe. Access to some sites may require registration or subscription.
AM Best’s Media Program — Podcaster: Podcast To Fill Insurance Tech Gaps: AgencyBloc was founded to help fill a technology gap for the underserved health and benefits market, and now it’s expanding its mission with the Insurtech Building Blocs production.
Artificial Intelligence: Leading AI Platforms Highlight Mutuals’ Responsiveness, Client Focus in Query: Best’s Review asked leading artificial intelligence models about advantages and weaknesses of mutual insurers.
Asset Management: Mortgages 90 Days Overdue Double, Drawing Investor Concern: AM Best: U.S. life/annuity insurers expanded their allocations to mortgage loans in 2023 by more than 6% to $734.2 billion, according to a recent Best’s Special Report. Problem loans are a growing sliver of most investment portfolios.
Best’s Credit Rating Actions: A list of credit rating actions between July 1 and July 31, 2024:
Best’s Rankings: Global Reinsurers: Top Global Reinsurance Groups – 2024 Edition:
Best’s Rankings: L/H Insurers: US Life Health - Ordinary Life Issued – 2024 Edition:
Best’s Rankings: L/H Insurers: US Life Health-Total Life Issued – 2024 Edition:
Best’s Rankings: L/H Insurers: US Life/Health - Ordinary Life In force – 2024 Edition:
Best’s Rankings: L/H Insurers: US Life/Health - Term Life Issued – 2024 Edition:
Best’s Rankings: L/H Insurers: US Life/Health - Total Life In Force – 2024 Edition:
Best’s Rankings: L/H Insurers: US Life/Health -Term Life In force – 2024 Edition:
Best’s Rankings: L/H Insurers: US Life/Health Group Life In Force – 2024 Edition:
Best’s Rankings: L/H Insurers: US Life/Health Group Life Issued – 2024 Edition:
Best’s Rankings: Mutual Insurers: Top 25 Property / Casualty Mutual Writers – 2024 Edition:
Best’s Rankings: Mutual Insurers: Top 25 US Life/Health Mutual companies – 2024 Edition:
Best’s Rankings: US Private Flood: Top 25 Writers - US Private Flood – 2024 Edition:
Book Store: Author: Transforming Inner Dialogue Helps Unlock Sales Excellence: In his book, J. Sheldon Snodgrass empowers insurers and agents to help them find success and inner peace.
Executive Changes: CNA Financial Names Successor as Chairman and CEO Is Set To Step Down, Take on New Executive Chairman Role in the New Year: Zurich North America hires CFO, Markel appoints chief strategy officer and MetLife names new chief human resources officer.
From the Editor's Desk: Mutual Insurers Move Into Focus: Best’s Review speaks with mutual insurance industry leaders as the annual NAMIC convention gets underway later this month. This issue also includes AM Best’s exclusive ranking of top global reinsurers.
Insurance Professional Resources: HHC Safety Engineering Services Inc. Recognizes Janine McCartney With Lifetime Achievement Award: The certified safety professional also was named “Safety Engineering Expert of the Year” by Lawyer Monthly for the eighth straight year.
Issues & Answers: Surplus Lines • Asset Management • Artificial Intelligence • Life/Health Reinsurance • Mutual Success: Insurance industry leaders discuss surplus lines, asset management, technology, litigation and risk in an evolving economy.
Life Insurance: Minding the Gaps: With many people lacking coverage, industry executives need to work on the balance between selling life insurance and helping with long-term retirement savings, says Neil Sprackling, chief executive officer of U.S. life and health at reinsurer Swiss Re Ltd.
Mutual Insurers: ICMIF Q&A: ICMIF Executive Anticipates Microinsurers, Improving Regulatory Climate Boosting Mutuals Globally: Liz Green, CEO designate for the International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation, says she anticipates the additional growth of insurers owned by policyholders amid an improving regulatory climate and innovative approaches in emerging markets.
Mutual Insurers: NAMIC Q&A: NAMIC Chief Executive Officer: Mutuals Strive To Maintain Mission, Identity Amid Economic Challenges: Neil Alldredge, president and CEO of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, discusses how mutuals
State Rate Filings: North Carolina Dwelling Proposal Approved at Fraction of State Rate Bureau’s Request: The North Carolina Department of Insurance approved an increase for dwellings statewide that was at a lower rate than insurers have seen in other states.
Trending: Best’s News: Top Global Brokers Leads the List of Trending Best’s Review Articles: Other popular items include a ranking of the top 200 property/casualty writers and a feature article about the growing role of secondary perils in catastrophe losses.
Trending: Best’s Research: Trending Research Features Special Reports on Reinsurance and Mortgages: Other trending research includes a market segment report on the U.S. cyber insurance market.
Underwriting & Loss Control: In the Spirits World, Alcohol Shipping Risks Can Be Sobering: Best’s Underwriting Reports and Best’s Loss Control Reports provide insight into the risks and lines of coverage for distilleries.
Web Traffic: Web Traffic: Visits to Largest P/C Mutual Insurance Sites: State Farm Group leads web analytics provider Semrush’s ranking of most-visited property/casualty mutual insurer websites.
What AM Best Says: AM Best: Stable Outlook Assigned for Global Cyber Insurance Segment: Rate reductions have come after a period of increases driven by a surge in ransomware attacks in 2020 and 2021, according to Christopher Graham, senior industry analyst, AM Best.