Study Group: Commercial Lines P&C Actuarial Consultants(?)

This article addresses issues about Florida Property Insurance that are important to policyholders, insurers, and the general public.  The basic thrust of my comments are to outline important actions for the state and the insurance regulators to take, and to explain why heavy regulation of insurance...

The characteristics of Nonstandard Auto insurance listed in this article are well known, and one can find information at the Casualty Actuarial Society website www.casact.org by entering a search string such as “nonstandard auto”.   Any business entering this market must understand the effect...

If a book of reinsurance business can be purchased for a price that rpresents the present value of estimated future cash flows of that book, it could be a preferred way to buy market share, given that the price of growing in the reinsurance business can include quoting new accounts at less-than-break-even...

If thorough due diligence work is performed, investors could benefit from consolidation due to the benefits of diversification.   A combination of companies  focusing on different  lines  would either free up capital  for other purposes or  lead to a financially stronger...

Now that Florida is retaining a much larger portion of their more predictable catastrophe losses, insurers and reinsurers should be able to buy the high layer coverage they want at affordable prices.  The risk load charged for this high layer coverage would be significantly less than the risk load...