Despite the challenges presented throughout 2020, the SIGMA team has continued to focus on growth, education, and superb service for our clients. Fortunately, our efforts in these areas have not gone unnoticed, as our staff, both individually and collectively, has garnered multiple accolades over the past year. We are honored to have received such recognition, […]
Researching and Analyzing Unmanned Aircraft Systems Risk: An Interview with Chris Duling In today’s world, technological innovations are occurring at an increasingly rapid pace, and alongside those emerging technologies often come emerging risks. For companies to understand and mitigate these risks, they must first be quantified, but unfortunately, company-specific claim data is typically not available. […]
Following the financial challenges of 2008, SIGMA noticed a significant change in the collateral environment related to self-insured and large deductible programs. In 2009, we began conducting a collateral survey that attempted to gather industry perspective on a range of collateral issues. SIGMA offers many resources in the area of collateral, some of which may […]
We are pleased to have one of our favorite guest bloggers back with us. In my 30+ years in the P&C insurance world, I rarely meet anyone with more industry knowledge and experience than Bill. Today, he shares this valuable industry expertise on business interruption insurance and the current pandemic. I think you will find […]
As SIGMA enters both a new year and decade, we wanted to reflect on our team’s accomplishments in 2019 and focus on how they’ll shape our future. With the global insurance market continuing to harden, analytics are becoming increasingly important in negotiating and assessing risk. A great first step in getting ahead of the analytic […]
Authors: Michelle Bradley, ACAS, MAAA, ARM, CERA, Scott Kehler, M.Sc., and Mike McAndless, B.Sc., CRM SIGMA and Weatherlogics were recently introduced to each other by Mike McAndless, who worked with Michelle Bradley on a project in the mid 1990’s. This project was based on a key recommendation for a company seeking listing on Canada’s Toronto […]
The topics covered in SIGMA’s blog often originate from questions that our CEO, Tim Coomer, receives when traveling to speak with our clients. Multiple questions have emerged from some of his recent trips regarding frustrations with group captives, how to exit a group captive, and how to review various alternatives including guaranteed cost and large […]