How will insurance regulators evaluate AI/Black Box underwriting decisions?
There is quite a bit of auto insurance industry activity and discussion around using AI machine learning models to identify bad risks […]
What Progressive’s 3rd Quarter homeowner’s losses tell us
First the obvious: Unique among its large carrier peers, Progressive participates in the Florida market and Hurricane Ian is responsible for its […]
Why do auto Insurers experience so much rate manipulation at point of sale?
The auto insurance industry has a fraud and premium leakage problem at the point of sale. Industry studies and our own work […]
State Farm Leans into the Storm
State Farm Leans into the Storm For most carriers 3rd quarter 2022’s underwriting results scream retrenchment: double digit deterioration in combined ratios […]
Tesla discovers that auto insurance is hard
In 2021 Elon Musk set a goal of “selling insurance in most states by the end of 2022” – yet currently Tesla’s […]
Carriers should perform risk selection ‘micro-surgery’ rather than ‘amputation’ during downturns.
The shockwaves from Covid, Ukraine and the Recession have hit personal line carrier bottom lines badly. Take Geico for example. The Berkshire […]
Allstate finally gets a California rate increase
Ever since the Covid pandemic began carriers have been struggling with regulators about rates. And in no place has the struggle been […]
What does it take for a good inner city minority driver to get a fair insurance rate?
According to a study released by the Consumer Federation of America, drivers living in predominantly African American ZIP codes are charged 70% higher […]
Are Mandated Auto Premium Reductions Justified?
Policymakers in many states – notably including California, Michigan and Louisiana in recent weeks – are considering aggressive steps to drive down […]
Coming to an agent near you: direct online auto insurance losses
It is common knowledge that auto insurance distributed via the direct, online channel is much less profitable than agent business. But why […]
Rate Manipulation
Customers are using the knowledge they gained from shopping to manipulate rates more. Modern quotation systems make it easy for customers to […]
Six auto insurance trends driven by the pandemic.
It’s been a century since the United States has experienced a pandemic on the scale of the current COVID19 outbreak, resulting in […]
