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AM Best TV & Audio: Parametric Insurance Emerging as Essential Tool in Light of Proposed FEMA Cutbacks, Amwins Executive Says: Also, professionals explore AI regulation, discuss how U.S. monetary policy is affecting title insurance and examine the impact of MGAs in insurance.
AM Best Webinars & Briefings: AM Best Analysts To Discuss Insurance Sector Outlooks, Factors Expected To Impact the Industry in 2026: Professionals also examine how insurers are responding to legal system abuse and explore trends in insurance panel counsel.
Academic Research: Professor: Shifts in Tax Regimes, Offshore Reinsurers Shaping Insurance Landscape: Alternative capital and hedge funds also have had an impact on the industry. A University of South Carolina researcher discussed his work with AM Best TV.
App Store: Apptuary App Looks To Lighten the Study Load for Aspiring Actuaries: David Crowther, an actuary at QBE Insurance in Australia, says students and trainees benefit most from a mobile app he developed.
Artificial Intelligence: AI Platforms Predict Changes to Actuary and Auditor Functions in Insurance: Facilitating auditing and monitoring of transactions and focusing on interpreting results are some of the changes cited by large language artificial intelligence programs.
Asset Management: AM Best: Managing Risk Is Critical as Private Credit Holdings Increase: An AM Best report released earlier this year says life/annuity insurers’ private credit more than doubled over the past decade.
Auditors & Actuaries: New Actuarial Guideline To Affect Offshoring Life Reinsurance Disclosure: Auditors and actuaries also are contending with health care inflation, cryptocurrency and other issues impacting the insurance industry.
Auditors & Actuaries: Top Audit and Actuarial Firms: The firms were ranked by insurance companies’ loss reserves.
Best's Calendars: CICA Conference Features Theme of ‘Navigating Risk’: AM Best is a Silver Sponsor for the Captive Insurance Companies Association’s 2026 International Conference, which will be held March 8-10 in Palm Desert, California.
Best’s Rankings: Top 25 US All Other Lines Writers – 2025 Edition: Ranked by 2024 direct premiums written.
Best’s Rankings: Top 25 US Allied Lines (Total) Writers – 2025 Edition: Ranked by 2024 direct premiums written.
Best’s Rankings: Top 25 US Commercial Multiperil (Liability) Writers – 2025 Edition: Ranked by 2024 direct premiums written.
Best’s Rankings: Top 25 US Commercial Multiperil (Non-Liability) Writers – 2025 Edition: Ranked by 2024 direct premiums written.
Best’s Rankings: Top 25 US Commercial Multiperil (Total) Writers — 2025 Edition: Ranked by 2024 direct premiums written.
Best’s Rankings: Top 25 US Fire and Allied Writers – 2025 Edition: Ranked by 2024 direct premiums written.
Best’s Rankings: Top 25 US Inland Marine Writers – 2025 Edition: Ranked by 2024 direct premiums written.
Best’s Rankings: Top 25 US Ocean Marine Writers – 2025 Edition: Ranked by 2024 direct premiums written.
Best’s Rankings: Top 25 US P/C Accident & Health Lines Writers – 2025 Edition: Ranked by 2024 direct premiums written.
Best’s Rankings: Top 25 US P/C All Individual A&H Writers – 2025 Edition: Ranked by 2024 direct premiums written.
Best’s Rankings: Top 25 US P/C Other Health Writers – 2025 Edition: Ranked by 2024 direct premiums written.
Best’s Rankings: Top 25 US Products Liability (Claims-Made) Writers – 2025 Edition: Ranked by 2024 direct premiums written.
Best’s Rankings: Top 25 US Products Liability (Occurrence) Writers – 2025 Edition: Ranked by 2024 direct premiums written.
Best’s Rankings: Top 25 US Products Liability (Total) Writers – 2025 Edition: Ranked by 2024 direct premiums written.
Best’s Rankings: Top 25 US Property Catastrophe Risk Writers – 2025 Edition: Ranked by 2024 direct premiums written.
Best’s Rankings: US Fire and Allied Lines – Top Writers by State, Canada and US Territories – 2025 Edition: Ranked by 2024 direct premiums written.
Bookstore: Authors: Leveraging Data, Developing Strategy Drive Insurance Success: Aon’s Ward Ching and Aaron Olson explore the implications of disruptive innovation on how organizations develop business and make strategic choices from a recalibrated understanding of risk.
Executive Changes: Kemper Corp. Initiates Search for New Chief Executive as President-CEO Steps Down and Interim Successor Is Named: Sampo names deputy CEO, AIG announces new North America leadership structure and Lockton Re appoints global head of cyber.
From the Editor’s Desk: Top Best’s Review Features of 2025: World’s Largest Insurers and Global Brokers: The December issue of Best’s Review includes a ranking of the top audit and actuarial firms as well as a feature about regulatory issues for 2026. The December issue also includes rankings of the largest ocean marine and inland marine writers.
Industry Updates: NAIC Releases Budget Proposal Highlighting 2026 Priorities, Including Redesigned Solvency Tools: The proposed budget projects total revenue to increase and expense growth to slow.
Industry Updates: New York Lawmakers Consider Creating $10 Million Catastrophe Fund Under Assembly Bill: The fund would cover carriers writing residential and commercial property.
Insurance Industry Research: Report: Natural Catastrophe Losses Drop on ‘Abnormally Low’ Frequency of Events: Broker Gallagher Re estimated $105 billion in insured catastrophe losses in the first nine months of 2025, lower than the 10-year average of $114 billion.
Insurance Professional Resources: Human Factors Analysis and the Impact on Special Investigations: An Nguyen, of S-E-A Ltd., provides an example of how a forensic investigation takes place using a human factors analysis.
Insurance Regulation: AI, Parametric Policies on Commissioners’ Agendas for 2026: Risk-based capital, tort reform and governance of tech’s “black box” problems also will be priorities, regulators say.
Life/Annuities: Canadian Life/Annuity: Steady Growth Brings Steady Results: An AM Best report says Canada’s life/annuity insurance industry has prudent regulatory capital levels, financial flexibility to support steady growth and favorable earnings and underwriting.
Preferred Influencers: Recapping Court Judgments, Insurance Fraud Gives Influencer Full Docket: Barry Zalma, who moved his newsletter, Zalma on Insurance, online, uses the blog to capture the depth and breadth of nuclear verdicts, mishandled claims and grift.
Preferred Podcasters: Preferred Podcasts Cover Annuities, DUAE Ratings, Legislation and ITC Vegas: In recent episodes, podcast hosts interviewed industry experts on a range of topics including insurtech, sustained annuities market growth, DUAE performance assessments and legislation affecting workers’ compensation.
Preferred Publishers: Insurance Times Serves as UK Sector’s ‘Critical Friend’: Editor Katie Scott says the publication supports the industry in the U.K. and encourages discussion about key issues.
State Rate Filings: Approved Rate Increases for Michigan Private Passenger Auto Coverage With Overall Effect of 10.80% or Greater: Based on an effective date beginning Jan. 1, 2025, through Dec. 31, 2026.
State Rate Filings: Michigan House Bill Would Allow Insurers To Offer Deductibles on PIP Policies: The state Senate also is looking at similar legislation. One bill would mandate a 10% rate reduction off the approved rate for new auto policies and those up for first renewal.
Trending: Best’s News: Top Stories Include Features on Mutual Insurers, Surplus Lines and Autonomous Vehicles: Other popular stories include an interview with an AM Best executive about AI model poisoning as a new threat to data integrity.
Trending: Best’s Research: Trending Research Includes Reports on Private Credit and Workers’ Compensation: Other trending research includes reports on U.S. commercial auto and U.S. property/casualty rating upgrades and downgrades.
Underwriting & Loss Control: Growing E-Tailer Sector Faces Headwinds From Cyber Hacking: Best’s Underwriting Reports and Best’s Loss Control Reports provide insights into the risks and lines of coverage for e-tailers, a multitrillion-dollar industry.
Web Traffic: Web Traffic: Visits to Largest Auditor Sites: Deloitte leads web analytics provider Semrush’s ranking of most-visited auditor websites.
Web Traffic: Web Traffic: Visits to Largest US Ocean Marine Insurance Sites: Liberty Mutual Insurance Cos. leads web analytics provider Semrush’s ranking of most-visited U.S. ocean marine writer websites.
What AM Best Says: Stuck in Reverse: Commercial Auto Losses Keep Mounting: The loss trend appears to be correlated with inflation, particularly escalating litigation costs, according to AM Best analysts.