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Analyst Warns Regulatory Battle Over AI Bias to Grow; Lemonade Argues It’s Fair

As insurers introduce artificial intelligence into pricing and claims handling activities, regulatory focus on disparate impact will grow into “one of the biggest topics of the next 10 years,” a well-known insurance analyst predicted at an industry conference. V.J. Dowling, …

Cat Bond Sales Seen Slowing

Catastrophe bonds, which allow investors to make bets on disaster, have thrived in recent years, but a number of factors are seen cooling this obscure part of the debt market in 2008. The growth of catastrophe, or “cat,” bonds has …

Industry Forum Told to Expect Higher Tort Costs, Fewer Hard Market Opportunities

The length of the current hard market should not be overestimated and the creativity of the plaintiff’s bar to impose new costs on insurers should not be underestimated, a panel of outside experts told insurance executives recently attending the seventh …

Analysts Wrap Up PLUS Conference With Look at State of the Industry

Orlando, Fla. – Just how long will the hard market last? That question has been debated and debated endlessly as insurance industry analysts try and arrive at the same conclusion. Several analysts attempted to answer that question as the 15th …

13th Annual NILS to focus on effects of Sept. 11

The upcoming 13th annual National Insurance Leadership Symposium (NILS) will focus on the effects of the Sept. 11 attacks on the insurance industry and the actions taken to recover. The symposium, which will be held on Feb. 10-12 at the …