Unlike static factor-based models, dynamic models--such as the one Fitch will use to rate insurers and reinsurers--assess the ability of companies to withstand multiple stresses to underwriting and

"We're going to fight this one. We're going to resist it. We're going to try to kill this one. It deserves to be killed," Ernie Csiszar, president and chief executive officer of PCI, told executives g

NEW YORK--Irresponsible competition is the biggest risk facing the insurance industry, and Eliot Spitzer is a shoe-in to become New York's next governor, according to a recent poll of insurance industr

Two major rating agencies revealed details of their latest efforts to revise their capital models this week, with both assuring insurers they evaluate that the changes will not immediately impact rati

The questions--and the $82 billion lack of surplus estimate--came from by Peter Nakada, managing director of Newark, Calif.-based RMS Consulting, who admitted that the figure he spoke of was a "back of

The questions--and the $82 billion lack of surplus estimate--came from by Peter Nakada, managing director of Newark, Calif.-based RMS Consulting, who admitted that the figure he spoke of was a "back of

NEW YORK--Industry leaders need to get the message to front-line underwriters to maintain pricing discipline, but even that won't prevent inevitable soft markets--or a potential competitive pricing 'blo

Mr. Thaler admitted that this was unusual advice for a broker to deliver. He said the message for brokers was a by-product of his concern that business will be driven out of the market, never to retur