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COVID-19 Business Interruption Insurance Q&A with Bill Wilson
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...
Projecting Losses in Times of Uncertainty
Case 2: Detecting Early Trends with Lag Analytics As organizations contend with the current pandemic and its operational, financial, and risk-related impacts, they will need to address new methods of utilizing analytics in their decision-making process. To help them...
Defining and Modeling Adverse Scenarios for Captive Insurance
As part of SIGMA’s continuing efforts to provide actuarial expertise and guidance to the captive industry, we recently wrote an article for Captive International, a UK-based publication, discussing adverse loss scenario modeling. In it, Michelle Bradley and Enoch...
Projecting Losses in Times of Uncertainty
Case 1: Considerations for Companies with Temporarily Closed or Limited Operations With the insurance landscape evolving at a rapid pace, new risk-related situations, obstacles, and objectives have begun to emerge. SIGMA has received numerous questions regarding how...
Reconciling Reserve Changes Video
An actuarial reserve analysis examines a program’s loss-sensitive policy years in order to calculate a required reserve estimate for all claims incurred as of the evaluation date. This reserve estimate is a key component in determining collateral for self-insured and...
Analytical Strategies for a Hardening Market
A recent article written by SIGMA's Michelle Bradley and Lori Ussery and published in Captive International discussed the importance of using analytics to leverage a company’s position with insurers and create new strategies for dealing with a hardening market. View...