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- Future of Property & Casualty Insurance Claims
- Market downturn and increased competition is forcing major changes in the insurance industry and in the way insurance companies operate. Competition is permanently altering the expectations in the minds of insurance costumers on what they should expect of claims processing. This impacts and will continue to impact Architecture and Technology...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002: Terrorism Insurance Program, Treatment Of Terrorist Assets, Federal Reserve Board Provisions
- The ability of businesses and individuals to obtain property and casualty insurance at reasonable and predictable prices, in order to spread the risk of both routine and catastrophic loss, is critical to economic growth, urban development, and the construction and maintenance of public and private housing, as well as to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Mixing and Matching: Prospective Financial Sector Mergers and Market Valuation
- This paper considers life insurance, property and casualty insurance, securities, and commercial firms as potential matches for banks. It examines two types of evidence extracted from stock price data. First, option-pricing theory is used to compute a direct measure of diversification gains from potential consolidation. These results identify potential gains...
- White papers 2000-12-12
- International Accounting Standards Applied to Property and Casualty Insurance - Overview of Reserving Issues
- This paper provides an overview of the newly developing Inter national Accounting Standards IAS or IFRS for Insurance, with emphasis on issues impacting poverty and casualty insurers and the reserving work that actuaries do to support that. Those standards will emerge in two phases, with the more challenging actuarial issues...
- White papers 2004-08-12
- Property and Casualty Insurance for a Home Business
- More and more entrepreneurs are operating their new businesses from home. The advantages are obvious: Running a home-based business is convenient and cheaper than renting or buying commercial office space. But running any business - including a home office - without adequate insurance coverage can be a recipe for disaster....
- White papers
- Risk Management and Property and Casualty Insurance Policy
- This article defines the steps to be taken for risk management. Risk Management guidance is designed to identify and evaluate risks to which Cal Poly Pomona Foundation may be exposed, reducing or eliminating losses from injury to persons, damage to property and costs incurred in the defense of lawsuits through...
- White papers 2001-02-27
- Applications of Simulation Models in Finance and Insurance
- The paper describes a number of applications of simulation methods to practical problems in finance and insurance. The first entails the simulation of a two-stage model of a property casualty insurance operation. The second application simulates the operation of an insurance regime for home equity conversion mortgages (also known as...
- White papers 2003-10-31
- Fair Value of P&C Liabilities: Practical Implications
- Fair value financial reporting has been an ongoing initiative by both the IASB and FASB. Specifically, this paper examines the impact of this accounting change on a "typical" U.S. property and casualty insurer, identifies the practical issues associated with the measurement of property and casualty insurance liabilities on a fair...
- White papers 2004-05-04
- State Of The Casualty Insurance Market Update: Healthcare Professional Liability
- This paper discusses that procuring stable and affordable protection will continue to be a challenge for most healthcare service providers. Potential policyholders must be able to differentiate themselves in the marketplace as they seek quotations from a limited number of selective carriers. Healthcare buyers will continue to carefully weigh retention...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Obesity, Liability & Insurance
- Obesity is a growing international problem that is imposing immense additional costs on the economy and society as a whole, and becoming an increasingly important cost driver and exposure issue for insurers. This report summarizes various areas of insurance industry exposure, including increased claim frequency and severity in health, disability...
- White papers 2004-01-08
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Index-Based Insurance Derivatives in Hedging Casualty Insurance Transactions
- This paper addresses the pre-event measurement of hedge effectiveness for companies transferring risk to counterparties through index-based derivative transactions. The purpose of this white paper is to provide information on evaluating the effectiveness of index-based insurance derivatives in hedging property/casualty insurance transactions for companies. It also discusses reasons for insurance...
- White papers 1999-10-04
Additional Resources
- Chubb Corp. makes move to enter Indian market.(enters agreement with Bombay, India-based Kotak Mahindra Finance Ltd.)
- The Chubb Corp. of Warren, N.J. has entered into an agreement with Kotak Mahindra Finance Ltd. of Bombay to jointly develop property and casualty insurance operations in India in anticipation of the liberalization of that country's insurance market. The Chubb Corp. of Warren, N.J. has...
- Research articles 1996-10-14
- Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc. and Atlas Premium Finance Company Announce the Formal Launch of Atlas' Premium Finance Business
- Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc. UIH (AMEX: UVE), a vertically integrated insurance holding company, and Atlas Premium Finance Company Atlas, announce the formal launch of Atlas' premium finance business. Atlas will offer insurance premium finance services to customers with annual homeowners insurance premiums of at least $1,000. Premium finance...
- Research articles 2007-11-29
- Risks And Benefits: The CFO As CRO?
- From the executive summary: ‘At first glance, chief financial officers seem splendidly positioned to be the czars of Enterprise Risk Management ERM. Indeed, many already oversee one traditional area of risk management: the operational hazards often covered by property-casualty insurance. Typically, the corporate risk manager who identifies, assesses, and decides...
- White papers 2004-10-14
- Harleysville Group Elects Austell and Gray to Board of Directors
- HARLEYSVILLE, Pa. -- Barbara A. Austell and William Gray have been elected to three-year terms on the board of directors of Harleysville Group Inc. (NASDAQ: HGIC), a publicly traded holding company for nine regional property/casualty insurance companies. Austell served as senior vice president of finance and treasurer of ARAMARK...
- Research articles 2007-08-01
- Transamerica slates IPO for P&C unit in spring. (initial public offering, property and casualty, Transamerica Insurance Group)
- Transamerica Corp., determined to concentrate on its higher-return finance and life insurance activities, will sell a majority interest in its property and casualty subsidiary through an initial public stock offering next spring. Richard J. Olsen, Transamerica Corp., determined to concentrate on its higher-return...
- Research articles 1992-11-30
- Is Japan nearing concessions on its ins. market?(Japan's Ministry of Finance plans to open insurance market to US companies)
- The Japanese Ministry of Finance, under pressure from US trade negotiators, is preparing regulations that will open up the domestic insurance market to US companies. There are three major sectors of the Japanese insurance market: life, property-casualty and specialty products. US insurers have a market presence only in the smaller...
- Research articles 1996-03-04
- Terrorism Insurance Return
- With policy exclusions voided by law, finance executives face decisions about buying coverage for terrorist acts. The article explains about the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 and the changes taken place due to implementation of the Act. The TRIA has brought prices down for companies that purchased stand-alone policies...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- South Carolina Insurance Actuary Aims to Finance Recovery from Disasters.
- By Jim Parker, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 28--Dean Kruger wants a mass brainstorming about how to finance recovery from coastal storms and other disasters. "We need people to be unconstrained," said Kruger, chief casualty...
- Research articles 2002-03-28
- Can the Elephant Stomp on the Gecko, Farmers and Progressive?
- Insurers that "direct" market their auto and home insurance products to consumers through television ads, thus cutting out insurance agents, are doing quite nicely in the U.S. even during the recession. All you need to see is the success of GEICO's "Gecko." But the lovable lizard could soon find itself...
- Blog posts 2009-09-15
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