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Reinsurers Carry 40% of Cat Exposure but Pay Under 25% of Losses
September 9, 20264 min
One QBE Deal Is 62% of PwC's 2026 Run-Off Volume
September 9, 20264 min
Reinsurers' Cost of Capital Rose 96 Basis Points While Property Cat Rates Fell 16%
September 8, 20265 min
Exam P Volume Is Up 51% Since 2022, and MAS-I Has Not Followed
September 8, 20265 min
Homeowners Approved Rate Change Falls to 1.8% as the Earned Book Keeps Rising
September 8, 20265 min
NAIC AI Risk Evaluation Supplement v5.0 Makes the Model Inventory an Examination Exhibit
September 8, 20265 min
Workers Comp AI Crosses From Claim Summaries to Next-Best Actions
September 8, 20265 min
Gallagher Re: Reinsurers' 19.9% Return Is 13.8% Underlying, and 2027 Is Priced Off the 19.9%
September 7, 20265 min
Four Semaglutide Prices at Once Reset the GLP-1 Cost Projection Baseline
September 7, 20266 min
Pension Discount Rates Top 6%: Assets Fell $27 Billion and Funded Status Rose Anyway
September 7, 20265 min
Bodily Injury Crossed Half of Auto Loss Dollars While Carriers Filed Decreases
September 4, 20265 min
Marsh's 8.2% Health Trend for 2027 Is an 11% Gross Rate Minus a One-Time Buy-Down
September 4, 20265 min
Europe's July Hail Outbreak Set a EUR 2.19 Billion PERILS Record
September 4, 20265 min
NOAA Switched El Nino Indexes, and the Record Analog Changed With It
September 4, 20264 min
Ransomware Activity Tripled Since 2022. Claims Rose 80%.
September 4, 20264 min
Verisk Mapped 2,500 Data Centers. The Damage Curve Is Still Missing.
September 4, 20264 min
Actuarial Week in Review: August 31 to September 4, 2026
September 4, 20265 min
Humana Patents a Bake-Off for Picking the Trend Model
September 3, 20264 min
Individual Market Medical Loss Ratio Hits 93.2% on a 9.9 Point Growth Gap
September 3, 20265 min
Lloyd's Attritional Loss Ratio Crossed 51% While the Headline Ratio Improved
September 3, 20264 min
Verisk's Modeled Cat Benchmark Rose to $171 Billion While Cat Rates Fell 16%
September 3, 20265 min
AM Best: Big Four Kept Cat Appetite by Raising Attachments and Exiting Aggregate Covers
August 31, 20265 min
Insurance AI Patents: 61% Drew an Eligibility Rejection and Issued Anyway
August 31, 20264 min
Medicare’s 2026 Fee Increase Creates an Uneven WC Trend Signal
August 31, 20263 min
A 53,000-Job Government Drop Tests Public-Entity WC Pools
August 31, 20263 min
State Farm Patents a Crowdsourced Catastrophe Loss Engine
August 31, 20265 min
42%, 45% or 52%: Swiss Re's Quiet Half Has Three Insured Shares
August 31, 20264 min
Actuary Suspended One Year Over an OPEB Valuation: Both Errors Cut the Liability
August 28, 20264 min
The Automated Life Underwriting Patent Swiss Re Built and Sold
August 28, 20265 min
AmCoastal's $25.5M Cat Bond Buys First-Event Retention Down to $23.5M
August 28, 20265 min
Employer GLP-1 Coverage Falls to 60% as the 2027 Trend Print Lands at 9.2%
August 28, 20265 min
Public D&O Primary Rate Turns After Sixteen Quarters While Aon's Blended Index Falls 1.9%
August 28, 20265 min
GEICO's Combined Ratio Hit 91.2% in Q2 2026. A Third of the Move Was Expense.
August 28, 20264 min
Insurance AI Patents: 85% Were Narrowed Before They Issued
August 28, 20268 min
Optum Patents an AI That Reads Dental X-Rays for Upcoding
August 28, 20265 min
TD Bank Patents a Claims Fraud Model That Scores the Claimant's Network
August 28, 20265 min
Actuarial Week in Review: August 24 to August 28, 2026
August 28, 20265 min
Munich Re and Swiss Re Post Sub-80% Ratios Atop AM Best's 50 Largest Reinsurers
August 27, 20264 min
Cargo Theft Losses Double to $304.6M as Incident Counts Fall 26%
August 27, 20267 min
Catastrophic Claims Lead IFEBP's 2027 Health Cost Trend Drivers at 32%
August 27, 20264 min
Quanata Patents an ML Engine That Values What You Own
August 27, 20265 min
Texas's Price-Optimization Ban Sends Homeowners Rating Plans Back to Cost-Based Relativities
August 27, 20265 min
Verisk Patents a Forgery Detector for Claims Documents
August 27, 20265 min
Allstate's Patent Puts a GPT Between the FNOL Call and the Payout Model
August 26, 20265 min
ERISA Class Actions Nearly Doubled and Fiduciary Rate Stayed Flat
August 26, 20266 min
Federated Buys HDVI: The Credibility Math Behind a Telematics Trucking Book
August 26, 20264 min
Bermuda Reinsurers' 85.3% Combined Ratio Rests on a 9% Premium Decline
August 26, 20264 min
The Stop-Loss Turnaround Is Rate, Not Trend: A Q2 2026 Carrier Scorecard
August 26, 202613 min
NAIC Aims Cross-Border Reinsurance RBC at a Charge That Nets to Zero
August 26, 20265 min
Skyward Specialty's Loss Pick Rose 1.3 Points as Margins Improved
August 26, 20265 min
Inside Swiss Re's Drone Flood Patent: A Vulnerability Curve for Every Building
August 26, 20265 min
AIG's New Patent Puts a Confidence Score Between the Submission and the Rate
August 25, 20265 min
AM Best: Record Capital Tests Reinsurance's 87% Combined Ratio
August 25, 20264 min
ASOP 49 Exposure Draft: First Rewrite of the Medicaid Capitation Standard Since 2015
August 25, 20264 min
Hartford Patents an Outlier Engine for Underwriting and Fraud
August 25, 20265 min
Kemper's Commercial Auto Reserves Miss for a Sixth Straight Quarter
August 25, 20265 min
Multiemployer Pensions Hit Record 106% Funded at Midyear 2026
August 25, 20265 min
Munich Re Buys At-Bay for $575 Million to Own AI Cyber Underwriting
August 25, 20265 min
Oregon's Reinsurance Program Cuts 10.7 Points From 2027 Health Rates
August 25, 20264 min
Product Liability Claimed Nearly Half of 2025's $25.6 Billion in Nuclear Verdicts
August 25, 20266 min
Allstate Patents a Catastrophe Claims Engine That Pre-Stages Adjusters
August 24, 20264 min
Aon's $200M Sidecar X Discount Gives Back a Third of the R&W Rate Correction
August 24, 20264 min
Cape Analytics Patents a Premium Lever Tied to Property Condition Decay
August 24, 20265 min
Liberty Mutual and Allstate Route Bodily-Injury Claims Through the Same CCC Platform
August 24, 20264 min
EXL: 76% of Insurers Think They Lead AI, Only 6% Do
August 24, 20264 min
Fitch: Big Four Reinsurers' Record 21.5% ROE Masks Price Cuts Still to Earn Through
August 24, 20264 min
Medical Malpractice's 112% Combined Ratio Meets a Thinning Reserve Cushion
August 24, 20266 min
The 2026 ACA Filings Split Into Two Morbidity Camps. One of Them Is Wrong
August 21, 20267 min
Alignment Healthcare's 86.3% MBR Rides a High-Acuity SNP Bet
August 21, 20264 min
Allstate Patents a Pricing Engine That Auto-Rejects Risks
August 21, 20265 min
Guidewire's Qusar Puts Agents Inside Core Underwriting and Claims Data
August 21, 20264 min
Inland Marine's Loss Ratio Hits an Eleven-Year Low as Top Writers Cede Share
August 21, 20266 min
SiriusPoint's 90.1% Combined Ratio Rides on Reserve Releases
August 21, 20264 min
Actuarial Week in Review: August 17 to August 21, 2026
August 21, 20265 min
Applied's Agentic Email-to-Quote Channel Rewrites Intake Expense
August 20, 20264 min
Commercial Property Gives Back 6.3% to Fund Auto and Umbrella
August 20, 20266 min
Pelagos's 99.5% Combined Ratio Hides a $122 Million Reserve Swing
August 20, 20264 min
Kingstone's 70.2% Combined Ratio Hides a 43.1% Loss Pick
August 20, 20264 min
NAIC Flags an RBC Formula That Undercharges $150B in Loans
August 20, 20264 min
Travelers' Patent Lets an LLM Read the Injury File First
August 20, 20265 min
USAA's 3D-Printing Patent Writes Usage Into the Premium
August 20, 20265 min
Vermont's 2027 Rate Cut Comes With a Reference-Pricing Order
August 20, 20265 min
California's Intervenor Overhaul Rewrites Who Pays to Fight a Rate Filing
August 19, 20264 min
Clover's 87.6% Benefit Ratio Funds MA Growth as Giants Retreat
August 19, 20264 min
Fronting Carriers Now Back a Fifth of the $128B MGA Market
August 19, 20265 min
Ford Patents a UBI Rating Engine for a Data Pipeline It Shut Off
August 19, 20265 min
Ivans July Index: GL Renewal Rate Slips to 4.99% as WC Drag Eases
August 19, 20265 min
NAIC's First National Homeowners Baseline Shows Non-Renewals Up 216% in the West
August 19, 20264 min
US Severe Convective Storm Losses Top $35B as the August Derecho Outruns 2026 Cat Budgets
August 19, 20264 min
USAA's $825M Cat Bond Adds a First-Ever Florida-Only Tranche
August 19, 20264 min
AI Data Centers Are Maxing Out P&C Limits, AIG's CEO Says
August 18, 20264 min
Berkshire's $869M Reserve Release Hides a Casualty Build
August 18, 20264 min
CMS's 2027 Rebate Reallocation Rule Drives MA-PD Part D Premiums to Zero
August 18, 20264 min
nsur.ai Prices Underwriting AI at $2 a Deal, Skips the Core System
August 18, 20265 min
New York Cut Filed Health Rates Nearly in Half. The Gap Is an Adequacy Problem
August 18, 20264 min
Private MI Loss Ratios Climb as Cure-Driven Reserve Releases Fade
August 18, 20264 min
Trade Credit Rates Fall 9.2% as Insolvencies Extend a Fifth Straight Increase
August 18, 20266 min
AFG Books $125M of Favorable Development While Casualty Peers Build
August 17, 20264 min
Unum's Group Disability Benefit Ratio Breaks Guidance on PFML Incidence
August 17, 20266 min
Hamilton's Deep Dive Finds a 2018 Loss Still Moving Its Reserves
August 17, 20264 min
McKinsey Puts Gen-AI's Insurance Prize at $50 to $70 Billion: The Soft-Market Catch
August 17, 20264 min
State Farm Patents a GAN That Invents the Roof Geometry a Drone Scan Missed
August 17, 20264 min
USAA's Patent Turns Storm Density Into a Coded Severity Score
August 17, 20264 min
AI Exclusions Jump From GL Into D&O and Fiduciary Liability Lines
August 14, 20265 min
Akur8's Deploy Accelerator Wires an External Rating Engine Into Guidewire PolicyCenter
August 14, 20265 min
Hannover Re Banks a €240 Million Buffer Behind an 83.2% Combined Ratio
August 14, 20265 min
Humana's Benefit Ratio Rose 130 Points on Three Separate Mechanisms
August 14, 20266 min
Ryan Specialty's Margin Slips to 35.7% as E&S Property Keeps Softening
August 14, 20264 min
Blood Cancer Costs Jump 70% in QBE's 2026 Stop-Loss Severity Report
August 14, 20265 min
Actuarial Week in Review: August 10 to August 14, 2026
August 14, 20265 min
Beazley's Combined Ratio Jumps 8 Points as Cyber Premiums Retreat 15.4%
August 13, 20264 min
Cowbell’s OMNI Puts an AI Decision Layer on E&S Cyber
August 13, 20264 min
Travelers Built Its Own LLM: The Carrier Model Moat
August 13, 20265 min
UnitedHealth, Presbyterian and Humana's 2027 Medicare Advantage Exits Trace to County Benchmark Math
August 13, 20265 min
Wildfire Cat Bond Issuance Hits $5.18B, Nears 2025's Full-Year Record
August 13, 20264 min
Assurant Q2 2026: A $71 Million Reserve Reversal Behind a Second Guidance Raise
August 12, 20264 min
$604M Broker Verdict Turns Contingent Auto Into a Priced Exposure
August 12, 20267 min
Illinois's Rate-Review Law Turns Actuarial Credibility Into a Statutory Test
August 12, 20265 min
Oscar Health's Loss Ratio Fell to 79.2 Percent. It Booked Only a Sliver of the Risk-Adjustment Upside Behind It
August 12, 20264 min
Zurich's $1 Billion Data-Center Quota Share Signals a New Peak Peril
August 12, 20264 min
A Court Reopens the 2027 ACA Risk Pool Mid Rate-Filing
August 11, 20264 min
Achmea's Windmill III Re Cat Bond Upsizes 33% and Prices Below Guidance
August 11, 20264 min
Third-Party Reinsurance Capital Growth Halves to 6% in 2026
August 11, 20264 min
Drought Puts $8.4B Through Crop Insurers' Reinsurance Math
August 11, 20265 min
Palomar's Loss Ratio Climbs as 27% Premium Growth Outruns Rate
August 11, 20264 min
RGA's Record Quarter Rides a 106-bp New-Money Spread
August 11, 20264 min
A Claims AI Patent Now Reaches Into Loss Reserving
August 10, 20264 min
E&S Property Premium Falls 13.7% as Casualty Lines Harden
August 10, 20266 min
Humana Sheds 600,000 Medicare Advantage Members for 2027, Recaptures Fewer Than Half
August 10, 20264 min
Mercury's Palisades and Eaton Reserves Ran $80 Million Short, 18 Months Later
August 10, 20264 min
Munich Re Cuts Reinsurance Guidance to €38B Even as H1 Profit Hits Record
August 10, 20264 min
State Farm Patent Puts Live Smart-Building Sensors Into Commercial Risk Selection
August 10, 20264 min
Goldman and Talcott's $1B West Grove Re Isn't More Affiliate Reinsurance
August 10, 20265 min
AIG's $145 Million Reserve Release Comes With an Excess Casualty Catch
August 7, 20265 min
California Court Upholds FAIR Plan Assessment Recoupment Surcharge
August 7, 20265 min
Cigna's 84.5% Medical Ratio Splits From the Medicare Advantage Trend Story
August 7, 20265 min
EXL's AI-Led Revenue Hits 61% While Its Legacy Operations Line Shrinks
August 7, 20265 min
Swiss Re's 76.7% Combined Ratio Hides a Widening Loss-Pick Gap
August 7, 20265 min
Verisk Raises Prices on the Loss-Cost Data Actuaries Use
August 7, 20265 min
Actuarial Week in Review: August 3 to August 7, 2026
August 7, 20265 min
Allstate's Auto Book Released $634M of Prior-Year Reserves in Q2 2026
August 6, 20264 min
US Death Rate Hits a Record 689.2 in 2025, Outpacing the MP-2021 Scale
August 6, 20265 min
Aetna's 250bp MBR Drop Rode a $471M Reserve Reversal
August 6, 20265 min
General Liability's 114.7 Combined Ratio Meets a 2.6% Rate
August 6, 20267 min
Marsh Q2 2026: US Casualty Is the Only Commercial Line Still Hardening
August 6, 20265 min
Securities Filings Hit 118 in H1 2026 as D&O Pricing Sits at Cycle Bottom
August 6, 20265 min
Verisk Q2: XactAI Licenses Grow Tenfold as AI Friction Clears
August 6, 20264 min
Centene's Marketplace Book Shrank 41 Percent. Its Risk-Adjustment Position Swung Favorable With It
August 5, 20264 min
CNA's Flat P&C Reserves Hide a $77 Million Legacy Mass-Tort Charge
August 5, 20265 min
Congress Probes Credit-Based Insurance Scores as Rates Climb
August 5, 20264 min
UnitedHealthcare's June Plan F Reprice Lands Alongside 35%-Plus Closed-Block Filings
August 5, 20265 min
Palantir Q2: The Costly Engine Behind Carrier AI Platforms
August 5, 20264 min
First-Time Cat Bond Sponsors Price Near a 2x Multiple on Arthur Re
August 4, 20264 min
Florida's Lawsuit Share Falls to 41% as Loss-Cost Assumptions Reset
August 4, 20264 min
KFF's 2027 ACA Median Lands at 15%, Splitting Trend From the Subsidy Cliff
August 4, 20264 min
LexisNexis: Record 25.9% Home Severity Is Hiding Behind a Frequency Drop
August 4, 20265 min
MassMutual's Newly Granted Patent Turns Medical Claims Into a Mortality Score
August 4, 20265 min
Q2 2026 Casualty Reserves: Chubb and Travelers Release While Everest and CNA Build
August 4, 20268 min
Verisk Buys McKenzie Intelligence to Close the Gap Between a Catastrophe and Its First Loss Read
August 4, 20264 min
CCC's Top-Five Subrogation Win Puts an AI Score Inside the Net Loss Pick
August 3, 20265 min
Lemonade's 5% LAE Ratio: Expense Compression or Reserve Borrowing?
August 3, 20265 min
Markel's $205M State National Loss Exposes a Fronting Collateral Gap
August 3, 20266 min
Medicaid Work Rule's 2.3M Exits Hit Self-Insured 2027 Assumptions
August 3, 20265 min
Medicare Advantage's Quality Bonus Hits $13.4 Billion While the Qualified Base Shrinks to 68%
August 3, 20265 min
WTW's $625M Propel Plan Targets a 30% Margin, and a Different Leverage Model
August 3, 20264 min
Cape Analytics Patents Confidence Scoring for Property Data: A Credibility Signal Pricing Actuaries Can Use
July 31, 20265 min
Employers Holdings Books Zero Reserve Development on Workers Comp
July 31, 20265 min
NAIC's 2027 Valuation Manual Corrects a VM-21 Mortality-Table Cross-Reference
July 31, 20265 min
SCOR H1 2026: An 8.5-Point IFRS 17 Discount Behind the 79.9% Combined Ratio
July 31, 20265 min
Segal's 2027 Survey Pegs Medical Trend at 9.9%, a 15-Year High, With Rx Still Ahead at 11.5%
July 31, 20266 min
State Farm Patents the Placement Logic Behind Water Sensors, Not the Sensors
July 31, 20265 min
State Farm Patents a Pricing Model That Rewrites Itself
July 31, 20265 min
CMS 2027 Part D Preliminary Bid: The Stabilization Demo Ends and Standalone PDPs Return to the Market
July 30, 20265 min
Everest Q2 2026: An 88.5% Treaty Combined Ratio in a Softening Reinsurance Market
July 30, 20264 min
FTC's AI Accuracy Policy Statement Pulls Insurer Models Under Section 5
July 30, 20265 min
Kingstone's 2026/2027 CAT Placement: $500M Limit, Wildfire Cover, and -15% Risk-Adjusted
July 30, 20265 min
Munich Re's aiSure and Mosaic Roll Out a Parametric AI-Error Cover With a €15M Per-Claim Limit
July 30, 20265 min
Prudential's $90M Retirement Assumption Unlock Previews an Industry Reset
July 30, 20265 min
Six-State AI Health Insurance Patchwork: Washington Reporting Debuts July 1, 2026
July 30, 20265 min
Arch's 83.5% Combined Ratio Blends a Primary Loss-Pick Slip
July 29, 20265 min
Reinsurance's $648B Capital Record Is Retained, Not New
July 29, 20265 min
LIMRA Q2 2026: Income Annuities Set a Record as the Payout Era Arrives
July 29, 20265 min
Milliman's 2026 Index Puts Retiree Health Savings at $418,000, and the Medicare Advantage Discount Is Shrinking
July 29, 20265 min
Old Republic Nets a $40 Million Adverse Swing to a Flat Q2 2026 Reserve Result
July 29, 20265 min
US Casualty Runs 11% Ex-Comp While WC Softens: Reading Marsh's Q2 Split
July 29, 20266 min
ACA Enrollment Fell to 19.2M in 2026. HHS Says It Was a Fraud Purge, Not Attrition
July 28, 20265 min
When 80% of AI Agents Run on Three Model Providers, Accumulation Becomes the Actuarial Problem
July 28, 20265 min
The ASB Moves to Put Reinsurance Pricing Under Its Own Standard
July 28, 20265 min
Cincinnati Financial's Q2 2026 Underwriting Loss Is an IBNR Story
July 28, 20265 min
Leadenhall's Upsized Retro Bond Prices at a 1.67x Multiple
July 28, 20265 min
Qumis's Coverage AI Agents Target Claims Leakage Across 16 Lines
July 28, 20265 min
Reserv Prices Its Claims AI at Compute Cost Plus 10%
July 28, 20265 min
Surety's 2025 Loss-Ratio Retreat Meets an 8.8-Month Backlog
July 28, 20265 min
D&O's 54.5 Loss Ratio Sits on a Premium Base That Shrank by a Third
July 27, 20266 min
USAA Took 19 Patent Grants in July; Filing Leader State Farm Took None
July 27, 202610 min
Marsh Q2 2026: Global Rates Fall 6% as Property Drops 12% and US Casualty Keeps Rising
July 27, 20265 min
MedPAC's July 2026 Data Book: MA at 55 Percent, Benchmarks at 124 Percent of a Shrinking FFS Base
July 27, 20265 min
Mexico's M7.3 Quake Missed Its Cat Bond Trigger by One Tenth of a Magnitude
July 27, 20265 min
After 23 Letters Called It Unworkable, NAIC Vendor Oversight Shifts to Rate-Filing Leverage
July 27, 20265 min
Old Republic Q2 2026: Specialty Combined Ratio Rises to 95.5% as Title Operating Income Jumps 130%
July 27, 20265 min
OSFI Opens MCT Capital Credit to Indemnity Cat Bonds With Collateral Held in Canada
July 27, 20265 min
Universal Prints a 33.2% Adjusted ROCE as Florida's Post-Reform Cycle Turns to Rate Give-Back
July 27, 20265 min
Actuarial Week in Review: July 27 to July 31, 2026
July 27, 20266 min
CMS Actuaries Project Health Spending Reaches 20.6% of GDP by 2034 as Medicare Growth Outpaces Every Other Payer
July 26, 20269 min
Hartford's $116M GL Charge Flags a Frequency Problem in Excess and Umbrella Layers
July 26, 20266 min
Kinsale Cuts Commercial Property 32.7% as E&S Softens
July 26, 20267 min
Selective Beats on EPS, Retreats From Premium Growth in Q2 2026
July 26, 20268 min
MLR Rebates Fall to $759 Million as Insurers Tighten Toward the Margin Floor
July 24, 20265 min
Chubb Q2 2026: E&S Property Becomes the Soft Market's Leading Edge
July 24, 20265 min
Cyber Rates Fall a 12th Straight Quarter as Ransom Demands Jump 47%
July 24, 20266 min
Hartford Q2 2026: Short-Tail Releases Fund a Casualty Reserve Build
July 24, 20265 min
Norm Ai's $1.2B Round Puts Supervisory AI Agents to Work at New York Life
July 24, 20265 min
Travelers Locks Cat Retentions as Reinsurance Softens
July 24, 20265 min
Actuarial Week in Review: July 20 to July 24, 2026
July 24, 20265 min
Auto Rate Cuts Collide With a Severity Re-Acceleration
July 23, 20265 min
Record Pension Surplus Is Firing LDI Glidepath Triggers Years Early
July 23, 20265 min
Molina's 92.7% Medicaid MLR and a Trough Call the Acuity Math Hasn't Confirmed
July 23, 20264 min
RenaissanceRe Buys More Retro Behind a 72.8% Combined Ratio
July 23, 20265 min
RLI Q2 2026: The 85.6% Combined Ratio That's Really Closer to 94%
July 23, 20264 min
Property Releases, Not Pricing, Are Carrying Q2 2026 Combined Ratios
July 23, 20268 min
Pricing Surety's Rare, Severe Losses in a Golden-Era Loss Ratio
July 23, 20267 min
Travelers Puts a Number on AI: 0.5 Points of Loss Ratio
July 23, 20265 min
CSR Loading Returns to the 2027 ACA Actuarial Memorandum
July 22, 20264 min
Auto Total Loss Frequency Hits a Record 23%, and the ACV Math Decides
July 22, 20265 min
Chubb's 83.8% Combined Ratio Meets a Softening Casualty Book
July 22, 20265 min
Corporate Pensions Close Q2 2026 in Surplus: The Endgame Math
July 22, 20265 min
95.2% of Insurtech Funding Went to AI in H1 2026. Pricing Didn't Get Any.
July 22, 20265 min
Life Sidecar Reserves Hit $90B: The Reserve-Financing Turn
July 22, 20265 min
MGA Submission AI Tests Exposure Data Lineage, Not Just Speed
July 22, 20265 min
Property Cat ROL Falls 16%: Repricing the Net Cost of Reinsurance
July 22, 20266 min
When AI Underwriting Shifts From Selection to Prevention, Whose Loss Costs Move First?
July 21, 20265 min
AM Best's Decade-High P&C Profit Tests Reserve Durability
July 21, 20264 min
UnitedHealth and Elevance Split the Q2 2026 Managed-Care Recovery
July 21, 20264 min
UnitedHealth's Profit Rebound and the Rate-Adequacy Reconciliation
July 21, 20264 min
W.R. Berkley Q2 2026: The 1.9-Point Gap That Shows Specialty Margins Are Real, Not Reserve-Borrowed
July 21, 20264 min
ACA 2027 Rates Add a Second 4-Point Subsidy-Loss Morbidity Load
July 20, 20266 min
Colorado's First AI Model Compliance Reports Come Due
July 20, 20265 min
Group Disability Insurance Heads Into a Countercyclical Claims Turn
July 20, 20264 min
H1 Cat Losses Hit $46B: The Under-Spent Budget Behind Soft January 2027 Renewal Terms
July 20, 20264 min
How Reinsurance Cuts Mortgage Insurers' PMIERs Capital by Half
July 20, 20264 min
Silent AI Exposure: 90% of Insurer Risk Sits Unpriced
July 20, 20265 min
USPTO's AI Examiner Tool Tests Insurer Patent Moats
July 20, 20265 min
When Your AI Governance Controls Are Vendor-Patented
July 20, 20265 min
CAS PCPA Is Now Mandatory: What the 2026 Cohort Faces
July 17, 20265 min
Florida Citizens' 88% ILS Tower Sets a Cedant Template Few Insurers Can Replicate
July 17, 20265 min
Why Standard Model Risk Management Cannot Validate LLMs in P&C Claims
July 17, 20265 min
When LLMs Draft the Reserve Opinion: The Actuarial Liability Gap
July 17, 20265 min
ML Jury Award Models Are Rewriting Commercial Auto's Reserve Tail
July 17, 20265 min
SOA-LIMRA Payout Annuity Study Resets SPIA Mortality Pricing
July 17, 20267 min
Stop-Loss at 12.7%: The Structural Break Behind the Premium
July 17, 20265 min
Actuarial Week in Review: July 13 to July 17, 2026
July 17, 20266 min
Cat Bond Secondary Market Spreads Defy Hurricane Season in Q2 2026
July 16, 20264 min
Article 50 Still Lands August 2: What Carriers Owe on EU AI Act Transparency
July 16, 20265 min
Guidewire Olos: What Core-System-Native Pricing AI Means for Actuarial Governance
July 16, 20265 min
MA Crosses 51.6% Penetration: What the Majority Threshold Means for Plan Actuaries
July 16, 20265 min
Progressive Q2 2026: Decoding the 11.7-Point Property IBNR Methodology Shift
July 16, 20265 min
Progressive, Travelers, and Chubb: Reading Q2 2026's Reserve Signal Together
July 16, 20269 min
UK Pension Superfunds Set to Double Deal Volume in 2026
July 16, 20265 min
WTW's Geospatial Mortality Model Resets PRT Bid Pricing
July 16, 20266 min
Agentic AI Compounds Errors Across Actuarial Pricing Workflows
July 15, 20265 min
Reading Casualty Triangles After Record 2024 Adverse Development
July 15, 20265 min
CMS-4215-P Locks Mandatory MFP Formulary Inclusion Into Part D Bid Math
July 15, 20266 min
Explainable Boosting Machines Enter P&C Rate Filings as Explainability Enforcement Arrives
July 15, 20264 min
Non-Marine Retro Rates Fall 20% as a Record Wave of Cat Bond Sponsors Enters
July 15, 20265 min
IFRS 17's CSM Release Ratio Emerges as Life Insurer Report Card
July 15, 20265 min
NCOIL Stalls, NAIC Expands: Mapping the 2026 Insurer AI Compliance Maze
July 15, 20265 min
WA Cares Fund's First Claims Put Actuarial Assumptions to the Test
July 15, 20265 min
Akur8 Discover Turns Competitor Rate Filings Into a Live Pricing Signal
July 14, 20265 min
Hannover Re's 60%-Upsized Retro Bond Signals a Deliberate Soft-Market Strategy
July 14, 20265 min
2026 MA Enrollment Surprises: SNP Growth Rewrites 2027 Bid Math
July 14, 20265 min
NAIC's New Reinvestment Floor Rewrites PBR Reserve Math for VM-20, VM-21, VM-22
July 14, 20265 min
NCCI: Payroll Overstates Risk for High-Wage Workers, Straining Class ELRs
July 14, 20268 min
NCCI's 4% Severity Spike Tests AI Claims Speed in Workers Comp
July 14, 20265 min
Progressive's Q2 2026 Revenue Beat, EPS Miss, and the ML Pricing Adverse Selection Signal
July 14, 20265 min
Travelers Q2 2026 Preview: Five Combined Ratio Metrics for the July 17 Read
July 14, 20265 min
Agentic AI Faces Its First Real Test at the July 2026 Reinsurance Renewal
July 13, 20264 min
Aon's 50-Million-Person GLP-1 Dataset Prices the Employer Coverage Gap
July 13, 20265 min
EU AI Act's August 2 Deadline Just Moved: What Carriers Still Owe
July 13, 20265 min
Aggregate and Multi-Year Reinsurance Covers Return as July 2026 Cat Rates Fall 20-25%
July 13, 20265 min
NAIC's July 22 Actuarial Panel Maps AI Governance Duties
July 13, 20264 min
PBGC's New Overpayment Rule Drops the Actuarial Reduction Method
July 13, 20264 min
How Flat Stop-Loss Deductibles Turn 12% Claims Trend Into 30% Carrier Exposure Growth
July 13, 20266 min
Tariff Inflation Is Opening a Coinsurance Gap in Commercial Property Books
July 13, 20265 min
How Actuaries Price AI Liability Coverage When the Loss Triangle Has No Rows
July 10, 20265 min
AI Replaces the Weekly PML Run: Cat Accumulation Goes Real-Time
July 10, 20265 min
Casualty Cedants Held Retentions Flat as Midyear XL Rates Fell 5 to 10 Percent
July 10, 20265 min
Chubb's 150-Basis-Point AI Savings Promise Faces Its Q2 2026 Test
July 10, 20265 min
HHS Finalizes OBBBA Marketplace Rules: Six Actuarial Repricing Triggers for 2027
July 10, 20265 min
Aon Retires "Social Inflation" for "Litigation Abuse": What Casualty Reserves Must Reflect
July 10, 20265 min
NAIC's GOES Replaces the AIRG: All Three PBR Frameworks Now Run on One Scenario Set
July 10, 20265 min
NY DFS Exhibit TR-1: Pricing the 2026 Auto Tort Reform Savings
July 10, 20267 min
Actuarial Week in Review: July 6 to July 10, 2026
July 10, 20266 min
Agentic AI Patents Enter Their System-Architecture Phase
July 9, 20264 min
California's Public Wildfire Model Enters Its RFP Stage
July 9, 20264 min
DW Simpson's 2026 Data Shows Where the Real Pay Bump Is
July 9, 20264 min
GLP-1s Are Rewriting Employer Trend Assumptions for 2027
July 9, 20264 min
London's 10-Day Cat Bond Push Tests Bermuda's 90% ILS Grip
July 9, 20264 min
NAIC's AI Evaluation Tool Turns Bulletins Into a Scored Exam
July 9, 20265 min
Pet Insurance Premium Growth Outpaces Enrollment 2:1 in 2026
July 9, 20264 min
WCIRB's 10.4% Rate Filing: Pricing California's CT Claim Surge
July 9, 20268 min
Cat Bonds Hit $18B in H1 2026: What the Records Actually Mean
July 8, 20264 min
Duck Creek Buys Send: The Build-vs-Buy Shift in Agentic Underwriting
July 8, 20264 min
Lemonade Prices Tesla FSD Miles at Half Rate: A Live Test of Exposure-Base Ratemaking
July 8, 20264 min
Mental Health Parity Rule Paused: The Actuarial Liability Gap
July 8, 20264 min
Patra's AI Patent Signals a New Tier of Insurance IP Players
July 8, 20264 min
Q2 2026 P&C Earnings: Property Softens, Casualty Won't Follow
July 8, 20264 min
SR 26-2's Banking Model Risk Framework: A Translation Guide for Actuaries
July 8, 20264 min
VM-22 Goes Live: Annuity Reserves Enter the Stochastic Era
July 8, 20264 min
AM Best's 18% Life/Annuity Income Drop Is a Voya Reserve Shift, Not a Sales Collapse
July 7, 20264 min
MGA Premiums Hit $108.7B as AM Best Flags Capacity Scrutiny
July 7, 20264 min
AXA XL's Galileo Re Cat Bond Prices the First US Terrorism Risk
July 7, 20264 min
Elevance Sues CMS Over $115M in Medicare Advantage Star Ratings: A Bonus Payment Consistency Problem
July 7, 20264 min
Fortitude Re's $3.8B Deal Moves 26% of Unum's LTC Risk Off Balance
July 7, 20264 min
LexisNexis Scores Home Risk Across Six Perils: The Validation Problem Actuaries Should Ask First
July 7, 20264 min
Manulife's MAUDE Engine Can Approve Applications, Not Deny Them
July 7, 20264 min
Verisk Q1 2026: Property Claims Fall 8.9% as Severity Climbs Toward a Record
July 7, 20264 min
ACA 2027 Rates: The Second Morbidity Spiral Is Already Loading
July 6, 20264 min
Actuaries Longevity Illustrator: A Retirement Planning Guide
July 6, 20264 min
Cytora Autopilot Runs Underwriting End to End: What Changes for Actuaries
July 6, 20264 min
Federal Circuit's Section 101 Crackdown Hits Insurer AI Patent Moats
July 6, 20264 min
NAIC Vendor Registry: Third-Party Model Documentation and the Actuary Workflow Shift
July 6, 20264 min
North Carolina Rate Bureau's 68% Dwelling Rate Indication Settled at 10%
July 6, 20267 min
P&C Q1 2026 Combined Ratio: Reading the Reserve Quality Signal
July 6, 20264 min
SOA MIM 2026: Four Years of Post-Pandemic Data, MP-2021 Still Unchanged
July 6, 20264 min
Swiss Re H1 2026: $2.6B Profit and a Deliberate Casualty Exit
July 6, 20264 min
ISO Indications Through Claude: The Rate Filing Documentation Gap the NAIC Framework Has Not Closed
July 6, 20264 min
CAS Exam 7 Pass Rate Hits a Record Low: Inside the 23.7% Spring 2026 Result
July 5, 20268 min
Actuarial Week in Review: June 29 to July 3, 2026
July 3, 20265 min
AI-Informed Policyholders Are Drifting from RILA Behavior Assumptions Faster Than VM-21 Can Track
July 2, 20265 min
AI-Native MGAs Bind Too Fast for Cat Models to Keep Up
July 2, 20264 min
BCG: P&C Carriers Triple AI Spend but Only 38% Reach Scale
July 2, 20264 min
New CMS Medicaid Rate Guide Takes Effect July 1: What MLTSS and ILOS Documentation Shifts Mean for Actuaries Certifying Now
July 2, 20264 min
Sensor Networks Move Commercial Property Risk Monitoring Inward
July 2, 20264 min
NAIC C-1 Vote Reshapes Annuity Spread Pricing for Life Insurer CLO Holdings
July 2, 20267 min
Record $790 Billion Reinsurance Capital Rewrites Cedant Program Math
July 2, 20265 min
Tariff-Driven Severity Has Entered P&C Triangles: How to Find It
July 2, 20264 min
Silent Cyber PML: How AI Wording Scanners Are Changing Actuarial Cat Model Certification
July 1, 20265 min
AI Wildfire Models in California Rate Filings: Credibility, Territory, and Certification Challenges in H2 2026
July 1, 20265 min
CCC EvolutionIQ Reaches 9 of the Top 15 Disability Carriers: The Loss Development Problem for Workers Comp Actuaries
July 1, 20264 min
Third-Party Cyber Claims Jumped 30% in 2025. Blended Paid Triangles Are the Wrong Tool.
July 1, 20269 min
H2 Hurricane Season Meets the Softest Cat Market Since the 1990s: A Primary Carrier Actuarial Stress Test
July 1, 20264 min
Property Cat at -23% from Peak: Reinsurer ROE and the 2027 Cost-of-Capital Horizon
July 1, 20264 min
Medicare Advantage 2026: How Forced Disenrollment Reshapes Risk Pools and Locks In 2027 Bid Exposure
July 1, 20265 min
TRIA Extension Through 2034: The 2029 Certification Threshold Change and What It Means for Commercial Actuaries
July 1, 20264 min
Allstate's AI Is Closing Policies in Three States: Distribution Shift, Adverse Selection, and Rate Filing Questions
June 30, 20264 min
CMS Proposes 75% AMP Drug Price Ceiling for Part D Starting IPAY 2029: Actuarial Pricing Framework
June 30, 20269 min
DC Plan In-Plan Annuities: Why 90% Sponsor Support Has Not Produced Adoption
June 30, 20265 min
Florida Homeowners Rate Relief Rests on Three Actuarial Conditions
June 30, 20264 min
The 43-Point Gap: How Reinsurers Priced Casualty Portfolio Quality at the July 2026 Renewal
June 30, 20264 min
Provider AI Revenue Tools and the Structural Inflators Behind PwC's 9% Medical Cost Trend for 2027
June 30, 20264 min
Goldman Sachs Leads $110M Into Taktile as One Insurer Projects $90M in Claims Savings
June 30, 20264 min
ACA 2027 Risk Pool Morbidity Load: The Four-Step Actuarial Methodology
June 29, 20264 min
Baltimore Bridge at $2.8 Billion: How a Known Infrastructure Loss Exposed Marine Casualty Reserving
June 29, 20265 min
Casualty Sidecars at Mid-Year 2026: The IBNR Problem Guy Carpenter's Center of Excellence Was Built to Solve
June 29, 20264 min
EXL's $310 Million iMerit Acquisition Moves Insurance AI Into the Training Layer
June 29, 20264 min
NAIC Third-Party Vendor Registry for Insurance AI: What the Model Law Draft Means for Actuaries
June 29, 20264 min
Parametric Reinsurance for Secondary Perils: Basis Risk, RBC Credit, and the Actuarial Certification Gap
June 29, 20265 min
Competitive PRT Cost Falls Below ABO: Decision Framework for DB Plan Sponsors in 2026
June 29, 20265 min
Tennessee WC Loss Costs Rise 4.8% as Medicare Conversion Factor Reset Bypasses Experience Ratemaking
June 29, 20268 min
TWIA Finds Windstorm Rates 9% Adequate After Texas Legislative Relief
June 29, 20269 min
Affirmative AI Coverage Moves Model Drift Into Pricing Territory
June 26, 20265 min
ASOP No. 39's Second Exposure Draft Adds Cat Model Adjustment Documentation Rules
June 26, 20267 min
CAS Exam Results No Longer Name Passing Candidates
June 26, 20264 min
Cat Bond Spread Compression Tests Retro Pricing
June 26, 20265 min
Guidewire Intel Federated Learning and the Sparse-Data Problem in Specialty Insurance Pricing
June 26, 20265 min
Medicare Spending Trend Is Not One Number: Part B, Part D, and MA Each Require Separate Actuarial Assumptions
June 26, 20265 min
NAIC Data Breach and the Filing Infrastructure Risk Actuaries Rarely Model
June 26, 20265 min
Decomposing the Chemours PFAS Consent Decree for Casualty Reserve and Reinsurance Analysis
June 26, 20265 min
Mortality Slippage Tests AI Life Underwriting at Scale
June 25, 20264 min
Bifurcated P&C Pricing Tests Portfolio Actuarial Decisions
June 25, 20264 min
The July 1 Split: Property Cat Softens 22.8% While Casualty Reinsurance Holds Firm
June 25, 20264 min
AI Fleet Cameras Versus Commercial Auto’s Loss Streak: The Actuarial Credibility Problem
June 25, 20264 min
Computer Vision Finds New Holes in Commercial Property COPE Data
June 25, 20265 min
2027 DB Mortality Tables: Minimum Lump Sum Mechanics Under the SECURE 2.0 Cap
June 25, 20268 min
Longevity Swaps Fill the De-Risking Gap for Plans Too Large for the Buyout Market
June 25, 20265 min
OBBBA Medicaid Cuts Force MCOs to Reprice Actuarial Soundness
June 25, 20264 min
Six States Without WC Fee Schedules Carry Professional Service Prices 41 to 188% Above Benchmark
June 25, 20268 min
Model Drift and the Rate Filing Gap: AI Pricing Compliance for P&C Actuaries in 2026
June 24, 20264 min
FIA Option Budget Compression Forces a Cap Rate Rethink After Q1 2026
June 24, 20267 min
NAIC Third-Party AI Framework Keeps Carrier Accountability: What Actuaries Must Build Before State Adoption
June 24, 20264 min
NYCIRB Files 21.9% New York Workers Comp Loss Cost Decrease for October 2026
June 24, 20268 min
PBGC's $62B Surplus Resets the Actuarial Case for Premium Reform
June 24, 20265 min
Munich Re Cuts While Hannover Re Grows: What the Mid-Year 2026 Volume Divergence Signals
June 24, 20264 min
Social Inflation Enters the Reserve Triangle: Methodology for Casualty Actuaries in 2026
June 24, 20264 min
Stop-Loss Specific Claims Trend Hit 18% in 2025: The Attachment Adequacy Deficit Running Into 2027 Renewals
June 24, 20264 min
Agentic Claims AI Forces ULAE Reserves Into Uncharted Territory
June 23, 20264 min
AI in Hurricane Claims Response 2026: How Faster FNOL Is Rewriting Post-Cat Reserve Development
June 23, 20264 min
CMS Star Ratings Recalculation After Clover: Asymmetric Design and 2027 MA Bid Methodology Risk
June 23, 20264 min
Florida Citizens' $2.82 Billion Cat Tower Maps the New Capital Stack
June 23, 20264 min
Florida Reinsurance Costs Dropped 20%. The Rate-Filing Pipeline Is Next.
June 23, 20264 min
Pension Risk Transfer 2026: Bid Economics on Standard vs. Complex Populations
June 23, 20265 min
When AI Sorts Commercial Submissions, Pricing Models Inherit the Selection Bias
June 23, 20265 min
Agency AI Tools and the Commercial Lines Retention Math
June 22, 20264 min
Annuity Demand and the Surrender Period Tradeoff: Credited Rates, Option Budgets, and ALM
June 22, 20264 min
2027 Medicare Advantage Rate Announcement: County Benchmarks, Risk Scores, and Rebate Mechanics
June 22, 20264 min
Insurer AI Returns: What the Evident AI Index Measures and What an Actuarial Scorecard Should
June 22, 20264 min
Florida June 2026 Reinsurance Renewal: Rate Cuts, ILS Depth, and the Attachment Points That Held
June 22, 20264 min
Insurance AI Hits the Pilot-to-Portfolio Wall
June 22, 20264 min
Moody's $375B Flood Gap: Property Catastrophe Tail Risk Beyond the Insured Loss
June 22, 20264 min
Construction Medical Severity Tests Workers Comp Loss Cost Trend Adequacy
June 22, 20268 min
Actuarial Week in Review: June 22 to June 26, 2026
June 22, 20265 min
EagleView Horizon’s Agentic Geospatial Engine Reframes Property Imagery as a Carrier Data Moat
June 19, 20264 min
FutureProof's E&S Launch Maps the AI-Native MGA Property Playbook
June 19, 20264 min
Medicare GLP-1 Bridge Launches July 1: What Part D Plan Actuaries Need to Know
June 19, 20265 min
NAIC AI Model Bulletin Gets a Compliance Report Form
June 19, 20264 min
PwC's 9% Group Medical Cost Trend for 2027 and the Rate Filing Benchmark Problem
June 19, 20268 min
Sixfold’s AI Underwriter Turns Carrier Expertise Into Machine Memory
June 19, 20265 min
SOA/AAA LTC Tables May Reset the Reserve Bar for New Policies
June 19, 20265 min
Tariff Parts Inflation Resets Commercial Auto Physical Damage Trend
June 19, 20268 min
Actuarial Week in Review: June 15 to June 19, 2026
June 19, 20266 min
Adversarial Self-Critique Rewrites AI Underwriting Governance
June 18, 20264 min
Medicaid Work Requirements 2027: Why CMS-2454-IFC Forces a Managed Care Capitation Reset
June 18, 20264 min
Moody's RMS HD Models Redraw the Severe Convective Storm Cat Budget
June 18, 20265 min
Munich Re's P&C Reinsurance Share Falls to 40%: Inside the Ambition 2030 Portfolio Pivot
June 18, 20265 min
ZIP Code Precision, Eight Policy Years: What the NAIC's Homeowners Data Call Puts in Regulators' Hands
June 18, 20265 min
How AI Is Reshaping Workers Comp Loss Curves in 2026
June 17, 20264 min
Three Models, One Green Light: CDI Wildfire Cat Model Certifications and What They Require of P&C Rate Filings
June 17, 20264 min
Liberty Mutual Puts Its Rating Engine Inside ChatGPT
June 17, 20265 min
Medicare Trustees Report 2026: HI Fund Depletion Moves to 2033, Actuarial Deficit Widens 33 Percent
June 17, 20264 min
NAIC Embeds Life AI Exam Guidance Into Market Conduct Reviews
June 17, 20264 min
ACA Individual Market Enrollment Cliff: Wakely Models 47 to 57 Percent Contraction and the Morbidity Consequences for 2027 Rate Filings
June 16, 20264 min
How Insurance-Native AI Platforms Reframe the Carrier Build-vs-Buy Decision
June 16, 20264 min
CAS PCPA Exam 2026: What the Predictive Analytics Requirement Actually Tests
June 16, 20264 min
June 2026 Cat Renewals Signal 15-20% Pricing Decline and a Growing Model-to-Market Gap
June 16, 20264 min
WTW Survey Quantifies the Analytics Dividend: P&C Leaders Hold a 6-Point Combined Ratio Advantage
June 16, 20264 min
AG 55 Goes Live as NAIC Eyes More Offshore Life Reinsurance Controls
June 15, 20264 min
Priced for a Bottom: D&O Underwriters Hold the Line as Severity Climbs
June 15, 20265 min
Property Rates Fall, Casualty Stays Strained: Pricing Two 2026 Cycles
June 15, 20267 min
Generative AI Now 31% of Insurer Patent Filings: What Evident’s Data Reveals About Carrier IP Strategy
June 15, 20264 min
Pricing a Presumption: First-Responder Mental-Injury Laws Hit WC Class Rates
June 15, 20267 min
Two Forces on the Group LTD Rate: Mental-Health Claims and the Discount Rate
June 15, 20266 min
The MHPAEA Rollback Leaves Health Actuaries Navigating Two Compliance Regimes
June 15, 20264 min
After the Pandemic Signal: Resetting Mortality Assumptions in 2026 Life Pricing
June 15, 20266 min
Actuarially Sound, Politically Fragile: NFIP Pricing Meets the Reauthorization Cliff
June 15, 20266 min
The QPA Meets a $15 Fee: The 2026 IDR Rule and Out-of-Network Pricing
June 15, 20267 min
Oral GLP-1s Reset 2027 Pharmacy Trend for Self-Funded Plans
June 15, 20267 min
When Hail Rivals Hurricanes: Rebuilding the Property Rate for Convective Storms
June 15, 20266 min
State AI Laws Now Set Bias Audit Rules for Insurer Models
June 15, 20264 min
A $75 Fee vs a Four-Figure Premium: The FHFA Pilot Tests Title Pricing
June 15, 20267 min
Travelers Q1 2026: Separating the Tech Signal from the Cat-Loss Swing
June 15, 20265 min
ACA 2027 Risk Adjustment Recalibration Tests Pricing
June 14, 202612 min
Allstate Patents Turn Road Risk Into Rating Evidence
June 14, 202612 min
Chubb Cyber Report Shows Large-Account Severity Doubled and Supply Chain Losses Multiplied 2.5x
June 14, 202611 min
Commercial Auto Pricing After the Q1 Casualty Rate Spike
June 14, 20269 min
NAIC AI Pilot Moves Insurer Reviews Into Market Exams
June 14, 202613 min
The NFIP's September 30 Expiration Collides With Peak Hurricane Season
June 14, 20269 min
Solvency II's 2026 Revision Gives U.S. Actuaries an Emerging-Risk Governance Benchmark
June 14, 202613 min
Texas Workers Comp Loss Costs Drop 3.8% as New Telecommuter and Remediation Classifications Take Effect July 1
June 14, 20269 min
Allstate Patent Turns AI Drift Into Claim Controls
June 13, 202611 min
VM-22 Aggregation and the New Annuity Pricing Floor
June 13, 20269 min
Sixfold’s Patent Shows How Underwriting Manuals Are Becoming Code
June 13, 202613 min
ACA 2027 Rate Filings Land With 22% to 30% Premium Hikes Across Eight States
June 12, 202612 min
DB Plans at 109% Funded Face Record PBGC Premium Pressure: When the Math Favors Pension Risk Transfer
June 12, 20265 min
EIOPA GenAI Survey: Two-Thirds of 347 European Insurers Deploy Generative AI, but Half Still Lack Governance
June 12, 20265 min
Legal Malpractice Carriers Face First Wave of AI Claims as LPL Coverage Forms Outpace the Cyber Cycle
June 12, 20265 min
Scaled AI Adopters Report a 3 to 5 Point Loss Ratio Edge
June 12, 20264 min
Actuarial Week in Review: June 8 to June 12, 2026
June 12, 20265 min
WTW WorkVue Maps Automation Potential for Insurer Roles as Consulting Firms Race to Productize AI Impact Tools
June 12, 20264 min
Arizona HB 2684 Forces WC Actuaries to Price Heat Exposure
June 11, 20269 min
ASOP 45 Rewrite Raises the Bar for Risk Adjustment Model Use
June 11, 20269 min
Cat Bond H1 2026 Targets $17B as European Sponsors Reshape the ILS Market
June 11, 20264 min
One in Five Insurers Deploys AI While Cutting Training Budgets: Inside the Covenir Workforce Readiness Gap
June 11, 20265 min
Employee Benefits Captives Surge as $1M Claims Jump 30% and Stop-Loss Premiums Spike
June 11, 20264 min
Twelve States Map the Insurer AI Landscape at Pilot Midpoint
June 11, 20264 min
RiskScan 2026: Overlapping Perils Outpace Actuarial Models
June 11, 20265 min
Aerial Imagery AI Draws Regulatory Bulletins in 13 States
June 10, 20264 min
CMS Proposes Rate Limits on $145B in Medicaid State-Directed Payments
June 10, 20269 min
Everest Group: Decision Intelligence Now Defines P&C Tech Vendor Differentiation
June 10, 20264 min
Federal PBM Reform Mandates Full Rebate Passthrough by 2029
June 10, 20265 min
Malpractice Insurers Hit 105% Combined Ratio as Verdict Severity Doubles
June 10, 20269 min
Nine Obesity Drugs Near Launch Could Break the GLP-1 Duopoly by 2027
June 10, 202612 min
Supershear Quakes Expose $13.2B Blind Spot in Cat Models: What Actuaries Need From Vendors Now
June 10, 20264 min
Akur8's Matrisk Acquisition Builds the First End-to-End Actuarial AI Platform
June 9, 20265 min
CAS Funds Research to Fine-Tune LLMs for P&C Actuarial Reasoning: What the Dual RFP Means for the Profession
June 9, 20264 min
CY2027 MA Bids Lock In as Actuaries Navigate Tighter Margins
June 9, 20264 min
Insurers Bet on Domain-Trained AI Over General-Purpose LLMs: The Technical and Economic Case
June 9, 20264 min
Reinsurance Illiquidity: Why Record Capital Still Costs Too Much
June 9, 20265 min
Texas Claims Nine of Ten Top Homeowners Rate Hikes in Q1 2026
June 9, 20265 min
AM Best: Auto Rate Filings Drop to 3.7% in the Sharpest P&C Shift Since Pre-Pandemic
June 8, 20264 min
AM Best and Moody's Hold Health Insurers at Negative Outlook for 2026
June 8, 202612 min
Three Carrier AI Architectures: Platform, Partnership, and Proprietary Models Compared
June 8, 20265 min
Insurtech 2026 Verdict: Legacy Architecture Is the AI Bottleneck
June 8, 20265 min
NAIC Homeowners Data Call Brings ZIP-Level Scrutiny to Territorial Rate Filings
June 8, 20268 min
NCCI Medical Price Index at 1.8% Masks 4% WC Severity Growth
June 8, 20267 min
State Farm Joins OpenAI Frontier to Retool 96 Million Policies Under a Mutual’s AI Thesis
June 8, 20265 min
Federal PBM Rebate Mandate Rewrites Employer Pharmacy Trend Models
June 5, 202611 min
Cyber Reinsurance Rates Fell 32% as Claims Severity Rose 17%: Pricing the Inflection
June 5, 20267 min
Guidewire Q3 2026: GenAI Drives Core System Deal Flow as ARR Hits $1.147B
June 5, 20265 min
IFoA Report Warns GenAI Risks in Insurance Are Structural, Not Fixable
June 5, 20264 min
Swiss Re Chooses Quality Over Volume Into Mid-Year Renewals
June 5, 20264 min
Actuarial Week in Review: June 1 to June 5, 2026
June 5, 20266 min
Six-Month Medicaid Redeterminations Will Reshape Managed Care Actuarial Math
June 4, 20264 min
Mythos Forces Cyber Insurers to Rethink Aggregation Risk and Underwriting Models
June 4, 20265 min
NIST AI Agent Standards Set the Compliance Baseline for Insurance Carriers
June 4, 20264 min
Soft Cycle Could Push Reinsurers Below Cost of Capital by 2027
June 4, 20264 min
SEC Scraps Climate Disclosure as P&C Reporting Fragments Across State, Federal, and EU Regimes
June 4, 20264 min
Swiss Re: Protection Gap Hits $424B as Nat Cat Losses Climb Past the Structural Threshold
June 4, 20265 min
WC Outpatient Payments Run 60% Higher Where States Lack Fee Schedules
June 4, 20268 min
Acrisure Cuts 2,250 Jobs as Broker AI Automation Splits the Distribution Channel
June 3, 20264 min
AIG CEO Transition Tests AI Continuity at Top Carriers
June 3, 20264 min
ASOP 12's Unintended Bias Section Rewrites Pricing Model Rules
June 3, 202611 min
HUB and Baldwin Deploy Claude to 20,000+ Broker Staff, Reporting 85% Productivity Gains
June 3, 20265 min
June 1 Property Cat ROL Declines Hit Fastest Pace Since 2014 as Reinsurance Softening Accelerates
June 3, 20264 min
Oral Wegovy Enters Workers' Comp: Pricing the GLP-1 Severity Shift
June 3, 20269 min
UK Pension Buyout Boom Hits £70B as Three Insurers Sell
June 3, 20264 min
UnitedHealthcare Trades 1.3 Million MA Members for Margin Gains in the Largest Medicare Advantage Repricing in History
June 3, 20264 min
AI Pricing Sophistication Faces Its First P&C Soft-Market Test
June 2, 20264 min
21 Health Systems Drop MA Plans, Exposing Network Adequacy Gaps Actuaries Must Price
June 2, 20264 min
Lloyd’s Helix Consortium Writes First Cargo Policy for AI Hardware
June 2, 20264 min
15,000 PFAS Lawsuits Expose GL Reserving Gaps for Actuaries
June 2, 20269 min
Progressive Topples State Farm as Largest U.S. Auto Insurer: The ML Pricing Edge Behind an 84-Year Shift
June 2, 20264 min
Record Annuity Sales Mask Capital Quality Risks at Life Insurers
June 2, 20264 min
Verisk Adds McKinsey AI Leader to Board as Insurance Analytics War Heats Up
June 2, 20264 min
ASOP No. 12 Gets Its First AI-Era Rewrite After 21 Years
June 1, 20264 min
FDA Moves to Ban Compounded GLP-1s, Forcing Health Plan Repricing
June 1, 202612 min
Florida Citizens Shrinks 73% as Reforms Reshape the Market: Full Recovery Arc
June 1, 20264 min
NAIC CEO Johnston Inherits a Four-Front Regulatory Agenda
June 1, 20264 min
SR 26-2 Rewrites Model Risk Rules but Leaves Insurer AI in a Regulatory Vacuum
June 1, 20264 min
Synthetic Data Wins CAS Ratemaking Prize: Privacy-Safe Pricing With Kernel Density Estimation
June 1, 20264 min
Auto Rate Filings Reflect Tort Reform Gains in Florida and Georgia
June 1, 20268 min
WC Rx Costs Now Vary 25-Fold by State as Trend Reversal Hits Pricing
June 1, 20267 min
Fully Automated Claims Decisions Draw Regulatory Pushback as States Rewrite the Rules
May 29, 20264 min
Foundation Model Labs Go Direct to Carriers at Insurtech 2026
May 29, 20264 min
Litigation Funding Disclosure Reaches Seven States in 2026
May 29, 20264 min
NCCI Employment Surge Raises New-Worker Frequency Risk for WC Pricing
May 29, 20269 min
P&C Claims Severity Faces a Four-Factor Compounding Problem in 2026
May 29, 20264 min
Three P&C Vendors Race to Own the Embedded AI Layer in 2026
May 29, 20264 min
RenRe Lifts 2026 Reinsurance Demand Forecast 50% to $15B as Mid-Year Rates Fall
May 29, 20264 min
V28 Risk Model Goes Full-Weight in PY 2026, Compressing Medicare Advantage Risk Scores by $11 Billion
May 29, 20264 min
Washington 2027 ACA Filings Reveal Post-Subsidy Adverse Selection Load
May 29, 20269 min
Actuarial Week in Review: May 25 to May 29, 2026
May 29, 20265 min
Agentic AI Shifts From Carrier Ops to the Producer Channel
May 28, 20264 min
AM Best Flags Two-Notch Credit Slide in Annuity Reserve Backing
May 28, 20268 min
Carriers Build AI Stacks While Pulling AI From Policies: The Deploy-and-Exclude Paradox
May 28, 20264 min
CMS Prior Auth Metrics Go Public: What Denial Rate Transparency Means for Health Plan Actuaries
May 28, 20264 min
Facultative Reinsurance Swings to Buyer’s Market as US Property Fac Rates Fall 25-30%
May 28, 20264 min
GenAI Lawsuits Jump 978% and Actuaries Have No Baseline: Pricing AI Liability Without Loss Triangles
May 28, 20264 min
NCCI Data Shows 60% of Large WC Claims Now Emerge Within Two Years
May 28, 20268 min
Why Cat Models Ignore NOAA's Below-Normal Hurricane Call: Seasonal Forecasts vs. Multi-Year Loss Curves
May 28, 20264 min
$22B Q1 Gain Marks Best P&C Underwriting Quarter in 25 Years
May 27, 20264 min
AI Strategy Becomes the Top Question on P&C Earnings Calls
May 27, 20265 min
22% Actuarial Job Growth Forecast Meets a Widening Entry-Level Pay Gap
May 27, 20264 min
42% of P&C Insurers Never Measured AI Outcomes: Inside the Capgemini Measurement Gap
May 27, 20264 min
$4.5M Gene Therapy Claims Force Stop-Loss Pricing Overhaul
May 27, 20269 min
CMS Depression Screening Measure Adds Behavioral Health Layer to MA Star Ratings for 2027
May 27, 20264 min
Vertical AI Underwriting Startups Challenge Platform Incumbents With Measurable Loss Ratio Gains
May 27, 20265 min
AI Claims Cycle Times Drop 75% as STP Rates Near 70%: The Structural Shift in P&C Claims
May 26, 20264 min
Captive Insurance: A Complete Guide for Risk Managers and Actuaries
May 26, 202620 min
Celent: 48% of Insurers Run GenAI in Production, Pushing Past the Early-Majority Threshold
May 26, 20264 min
Medicare Advantage Premiums Fall While Benefits Shrink: KFF Spotlight Exposes the Actuarial Trade-Off
May 26, 20264 min
McKinsey Sizes Insurance GenAI Revenue at $50 Billion to $70 Billion: An Investor Thesis Takes Shape
May 26, 20264 min
2026 MMI Flags 14.8% Pharmacy Trend as Health Costs Hit $37,824
May 26, 202610 min
NAIC Creates Market Conduct Working Group to Examine AI-Era Insurers
May 26, 20264 min
86% Ransom Refusal Rate Exposes Flaw in Standard Severity Models
May 26, 20269 min
Swiss Re Sigma 1/2026: Secondary Perils Hit 92% of the $107B Nat Cat Bill, Crossing a Structural Threshold
May 26, 20265 min
Allianz and Anthropic Co-Develop Audit-Ready AI for Insurers
May 25, 20265 min
Anthropic Ships 10 Agent Templates After $1.5B Wall Street JV Launch
May 25, 20264 min
CGL AI Exclusions Win 80% State Approval as Carriers Shed Generative AI Risk From Standard Books
May 25, 20264 min
Hiscox Cuts London Market Quote Cycle 99% With Gemini AI
May 25, 20264 min
IFRS 17 at Year Three: Why Insurers Still Struggle With KPIs
May 25, 20264 min
IRA Part D Redesign Lifts Creditable Coverage Bar to 72%, Putting Employer Drug Plans at Risk
May 25, 20264 min
Q1 Life Premium Jumps 10% to $4.5B as AUW Mortality Slippage Hits 15%
May 25, 20267 min
Nevada's 21.6% WC Loss Cost Hike Exposes Payroll-Cap Pricing Gap
May 25, 20268 min
C-SNP Enrollment Surges 49% as Medicare Advantage Restructures Around Special Needs Plans
May 23, 202611 min
68% of Insurers Outsource AI, Only 18% Track Vendor Risk: The Accountability Gap Regulators Will Close
May 23, 202614 min
Munich Re Cuts April Book 18.5% as Cycle Discipline Holds
May 23, 202611 min
Sedgwick Omni Scales AI Claims With a 5x Data Advantage
May 23, 202614 min
Seven Auto Insurers Clear $1 Billion in Q1 2026 as Rate Reduction Pressure Builds
May 23, 202612 min
State AI Law Patchwork Forces Multi-State Carriers Into Four Distinct Compliance Regimes
May 23, 202613 min
Florida June 1 Reinsurance Renewal: AM Best Projects Double-Digit Rate Drops as Cedents Lock In Savings
May 22, 20264 min
Insurity Calls Out P&C Core System AI Hype: A Vendor-by-Vendor Delivery Audit
May 22, 20265 min
IRA Third Cycle Adds Part B Drugs to Medicare Price Negotiation for the First Time: What It Means for Health Plan Actuaries
May 22, 20264 min
ISO CG 40 47 AI Exclusion Forces a GL Rate Adequacy Rethink
May 22, 20269 min
Parametric Insurance Scales Past $21B as AI Cuts Basis Risk 15-25%
May 22, 20265 min
One in Three Consumers Would Fake an AI Claim: Verisk Fraud Study Exposes a Generational Moral Hazard Gap
May 22, 20265 min
Voice AI Hits 1 Billion Insurance Calls After Vapi’s $50M Series B
May 22, 20264 min
Cumulative Trauma Surge Reshapes California WC Pure Premium Filing
May 22, 20267 min
Actuarial Week in Review: May 18 to May 22, 2026
May 22, 20265 min
BLS Removes Workers' Comp Costs From the Employment Cost Index: Repricing the Wage Trend Benchmark
May 21, 20269 min
Commercial Auto Posts $4.9B Loss for 14th Straight Year as Liability Diverges From Physical Damage
May 21, 20264 min
Employer Health Costs Hit 15-Year High at $18,500 Per Worker: The Actuarial Trend-Setting Challenge
May 21, 20265 min
MHPAEA Data Rules Force MH/SUD Pricing Rethink for 2026 Plans
May 21, 20268 min
NAIC Targets AI in Claims Handling at Spring 2026 Meeting: What Reserving Actuaries Need to Prepare
May 21, 20265 min
PwC Trains 30,000 on Claude, Remaking How AI Reaches Insurance Carriers
May 21, 20265 min
RILA Sales Jump 21% to $21.2 Billion as Annuities Post 10th Consecutive $100 Billion Quarter
May 21, 20264 min
P&C Growth Goes Negative as Industry Hits Decade-Low Combined Ratio
May 21, 20264 min
Carriers File Preemptive Suits as Patent Firm Targets Insurance Tech Stacks
May 20, 20265 min
EXL Q1 2026: AI Revenue Hits 60% and Reshapes the Insurance Vendor Model
May 20, 20265 min
Georgia’s $25M MHPAEA Fines Put Health Plan Actuaries on Notice
May 20, 20264 min
Guidewire ProNavigator Embeds AI Natively in the P&C Core System Stack
May 20, 20265 min
NCCI Reserve Redundancy Erosion Signals Workers Comp Pricing Cycle Turn
May 20, 20269 min
Three Rating Agencies Converge on P&C Margin Squeeze in 2026: What the Consensus Means for Pricing Adequacy
May 20, 20264 min
Wakely’s Morbidity Data Reshapes 2027 ACA Rate Filing Assumptions
May 20, 20269 min
Zurich Ends 13-Year Cat Bond Hiatus With $150M Turicum Re Deal
May 20, 20264 min
Allstate Builds ALLIE, Its Proprietary Agentic AI Stack: The Clearest Build-vs-Buy Case Study in Insurance
May 19, 20265 min
CCC Q1 2026: AI Claims Revenue Crosses the 10% Threshold at $120M Run Rate
May 19, 20265 min
Commercial Auto’s $5B Reserve Gap Exposes Pricing Trend Risk
May 19, 20268 min
Connecticut’s LTC Disclosure Law Rewrites the Rate Filing Playbook
May 19, 20268 min
D-SNP Enrollment Triples as Medicare Advantage Carriers Chase Higher Margins
May 19, 20265 min
SOA and CAS Rewrite What Actuaries Must Know About AI: The Competence Ladder, Fast Track, and the New Skills Baseline
May 19, 20264 min
USPTO ASAP Pilot Gives Insurance Patent Filers a New Edge
May 19, 20265 min
ADAS Creates a Frequency-Severity Paradox for Auto Insurers: Fewer Crashes, Costlier Claims
May 18, 20264 min
Cheaper Reinsurance Puts P&C Pricing Actuaries in a Bind
May 18, 202611 min
EBRI Simulation Shows GLP-1 Coverage Could Lift Employer Premiums 14%
May 18, 202612 min
EU AI Act Omnibus Pushes Insurance AI Deadline to December 2027
May 18, 20264 min
RILA Sales Surge 21% as FIA Slips, Reshaping Annuity Hedging Math
May 18, 20268 min
Multi-Agent Orchestration Becomes the Carrier AI Playbook: How AIG, Gen Re, and Open Protocols Are Defining the Architecture
May 18, 20265 min
NAIC Cuts Mortgage Loan RBC Factor to 0.68%, Fueling Life Insurer Allocation Shift
May 18, 20264 min
Comorbidity Multipliers Push WC Severity as Workforce Ages Past 50
May 18, 20269 min
CMS 2027 NBPP Final Rule Cuts FFE User Fee to 1.9%, Resets Rate Inputs
May 16, 20268 min
Deepfake Claims Surge as Carriers Race to Detect AI-Generated Fraud
May 16, 202612 min
Deloitte Maps Four Pillars to Scale Agentic AI in Life Insurance: What North American Carriers Can Borrow From the Asia Pacific Playbook
May 16, 202615 min
Medigap Plan G Premiums Surge 12% to 26% in 2026 State Filings
May 16, 202610 min
NAIC Merges Three Oversight Bodies Into a Unified Catastrophe Risk Task Force and Adds Wildfire to the Binding Rcat Formula
May 16, 202613 min
NAIC Proposes Look-Through RBC for Collateral Loans: Charges Range From 10% to 90% by Year-End 2027
May 16, 202610 min
One Ransomware Gang Drove 40% of Cyber Claims, Skewing Loss Models
May 16, 20267 min
CMS Star Ratings Shift to 65% Clinical Weight in 2027: Score Forecasting, Depression Screening, and the Actuarial Modeling Challenge
May 15, 20264 min
Cytora Autopilot Brings Self-Running Agentic Workflows to Insurers
May 15, 20265 min
IAIS Insurance Capital Standard: 2026 Assessment Puts US Aggregation Method to a Global Test
May 15, 20265 min
Munich Re Q1 2026: €1.7 Billion Profit Funds Ergo's AI Workforce Overhaul
May 15, 20264 min
Travelers Puts Agentic AI on Live Auto Claims Calls, Closes Half Its Call Centers
May 15, 20264 min
Umbrella Pricing Holds at 9.4% as Other Commercial Lines Soften: Why ILFs Need Re-Derivation
May 15, 20268 min
ZestyAI Taps Former Verisk CEO to Scale Property Risk AI: What Stephenson's Board Seat Signals for the Insurance Data Market
May 15, 20264 min
Carriers Deploy AI Against Social Inflation as Nuclear Verdicts Double
May 14, 20264 min
CCC Crash Course 2026: Total Losses Hit 23% Record as ADAS Calibration Costs Compound Repair Severity
May 14, 20264 min
Colorado Rewrites Its AI Bias Law: SB 26-189 Drops Mandatory Audits, Keeps Insurance on Two Tracks
May 14, 20264 min
LIMRA Q1 2026: Life Premium Jumps 10% While Annuity Sales Near Record
May 14, 20265 min
Eight States Enact Litigation Funding Disclosure Rules, Reshaping P&C Claims Economics
May 14, 20264 min
Medicare Advantage Plan Exits Force 3 Million to Switch in 2026
May 14, 20264 min
Property Cat Reinsurance Down 14%: How to Recalculate Your Cat Load
May 14, 20267 min
WC Physician Dispensing Markups of 16,000% Distort Medical Severity Trends
May 14, 20268 min
Agent Charters Map AI Decision Boundaries in Insurance
May 13, 20264 min
Cyber and AI Liability Converge Into One Digital Risk Line: Pricing the Unbundled Exposure
May 13, 20265 min
Fed’s Rare 8-4 Dissent Tests Fixed Annuity Credited Rate Assumptions
May 13, 202611 min
AI Claims 95% of InsurTech Funding: Gallagher Re Q1 2026 Report Dissected
May 13, 20264 min
LTC Rate Hikes Persist as Legacy Block Mispricing Compounds
May 13, 20264 min
NAIC Homeowners Data Call Sets Nationwide Peril Baseline for the First Time
May 13, 20265 min
NAIC SSAP 52 Revisions Target $220 Billion FABN Market With Granular Disclosure Rules
May 13, 20264 min
NCCI State of the Line CY2025: Combined Ratio Rises to 91% as Accident-Year Business Turns Unprofitable
May 13, 20264 min
OBBBA Medicaid Churn Forces Morbidity Reset in 2027 ACA Rate Filings
May 13, 20268 min
Actuarial Week in Review: May 11 to May 15, 2026
May 13, 20265 min
Big Tech's $725B AI Pivot and What It Means for Actuarial Careers
May 12, 20264 min
CMS Crowns Milliman for Explainable AI in Medicare Fraud Detection
May 12, 20264 min
CNA's Q1 2026 Casualty Reserve Charge Flags Soft-Cycle Risk for P&C Actuaries
May 12, 20264 min
Colorado AI Act Insurance Bias Audits: Why the July 1, 2026 Deadline Stands
May 12, 20264 min
Insurance M&A Targets AI and Data Capabilities in 2026
May 12, 20264 min
NAIC Pilot Tests AI Model Scrutiny in Rate Filings Across 11 States
May 12, 20269 min
Swiss Re Q1 2026: $1.5B Profit Masks a Nat Cat Cycle Pivot
May 12, 20264 min
Wildfire Losses Grow 12% Annually, Outpacing All Perils: What Swiss Re's Sigma 1/2026 Means for P&C Pricing
May 12, 20265 min
AI-Human Agreement Rates Emerge as Carrier Governance KPIs
May 11, 20265 min
BCG’s AI-First P&C Insurer Blueprint Sequences Transformation in Three Phases
May 11, 20264 min
Carrier AI Goes Customer-Facing: How Travelers’ Claim Insights Signals a Strategic Shift From Cost Reduction to Service Differentiation
May 11, 20265 min
Casualty Sidecars Draw $1.7B as ILS Capital Turns Long-Tail
May 11, 20264 min
CMS GLP-1 Bridge Sets $50 Copay, Rewriting Part D Actuarial Math
May 11, 20264 min
Dual-Vendor AI Stacks Emerge as Carriers Hedge Model Risk
May 11, 20264 min
GLP-1 Trend Factors Are Reshaping Employer Health Plan Pricing
May 11, 20268 min
How Social Inflation Is Distorting Casualty Loss Development Factors
May 11, 20268 min
Arity Q1 Revenue Falls 27% as Telematics Monetization Stalls
May 9, 202610 min
California's First Cat Model Approval Reshapes Property Rate Filings
May 9, 20269 min
Carriers Build AI Expense Savings Into Forward Guidance for the First Time
May 9, 202615 min
Generative AI Jumps to 31% of Insurer Patent Portfolios: What the Type Shift Signals for Carrier Competitive Positioning
May 9, 202614 min
NAIC Aggregation Method Group Capital Overhaul Faces May 11 Comment Deadline
May 9, 202615 min
WC Frequency-Severity Split Widens in NCCI's 2024 Year-End Data
May 9, 20268 min
Progressive's Record Media Spend Reveals the ML Pricing Edge Behind Its Growth Confidence
May 9, 202612 min
ACA Carrier Exits Force Actuaries to Reprice Shrinking Risk Pools
May 8, 202612 min
Berkshire Q1 2026: $1.72B Insurance Gain as Abel Maps GEICO's Five-Year Tech Rebuild
May 8, 20264 min
CMS Defers MA Risk Model Update, Reshaping 2027 Bid Pricing
May 8, 20268 min
Cyber Claims Frequency-Severity Divergence Reshapes Rate Models in 2026
May 8, 20267 min
Datos ILTF Frames the Intelligent Insurer Operating Model: Testing the Framework Against What Carriers Have Actually Built
May 8, 20265 min
Grant Thornton Survey Exposes the Insurance AI Proof Gap
May 8, 20264 min
NAIC and Treasury Draw Lines on $1 Trillion in Private Credit Held by Life Insurers
May 8, 20265 min
Verisk MCP Connectors Embed Insurance Analytics in Anthropic’s Claude
May 8, 20264 min
Actuarial Week in Review: May 4 to May 8, 2026
May 8, 20265 min
How Actuaries Model Adverse Selection in ACA 2026 Rate Filings
May 7, 20268 min
ASOP 20 Now Covers All P&C Cash Flows: What Pricing Actuaries Must Change Before June 1, 2026
May 7, 202611 min
Casualty Reserves Show Cracks Across 2021-2024 Accident Years: Schedule P Maps the Deepening Problem
May 7, 202614 min
Medicare Part D Plan Bids Exceed CBO Forecasts by $500 Billion Over a Decade
May 7, 20264 min
Corgi Hits $1.3B Valuation With AI Liability Coverage: The Actuarial Pricing Challenge When Loss History Does Not Exist
May 7, 20265 min
Fitch Keeps Deteriorating Outlook on Global Reinsurers Despite Record $838B Capital
May 7, 20264 min
NAIC Flood Insurance Blueprint Aims to Grow Private Market Share Beyond Its $730 Million Niche
May 7, 20264 min
NCCI Flags Tariff-Driven WC Medical Equipment Cost Acceleration in April 2026 Report
May 7, 20264 min
OpenAI Sits in 90% of Carrier AI Stacks: The Vendor Concentration Risk Nobody Is Pricing
May 7, 20264 min
Bertolini's $45M Bet: On Track to Be the Largest Realized CEO Pay Package in U.S. Insurance History
May 7, 202618 min
RILA Sales Surge Past $79B: Inside Carrier Cap-Rate Pricing Methodology
May 7, 202610 min
ACA 2027 Proposed Rule: Actuaries Model a 2 Million Enrollment Drop as HHS Widens De Minimis and Eliminates Income-Based SEP
May 6, 20264 min
ASOP No. 30 Rewrite Reshapes P&C Profit Provision Standards
May 6, 202610 min
Chubb Unifies Global Claims Under One AI-Driven Mandate: Why the Rampe Appointment Changes the Math
May 6, 20265 min
Insurance AI Hits the J-Curve: Why 2026 Margins Dip Before the $9.3 Billion Payoff
May 6, 20265 min
Stop-Loss Pricing Under Pressure as $1M Claims Double in a Year
May 6, 20269 min
Travelers’ $1.5 Billion Tech Budget Makes AI an Infrastructure Bet, Not an Innovation Experiment
May 6, 20265 min
How Carriers Train Agentic AI Without Exposing Policyholder Data
May 5, 20264 min
Carrier AI Projects Fail at the Audit Layer, Not the Tech
May 5, 20264 min
CMS Bans Unlinked Chart Reviews: $7B Hit to MA Plans Starting CY 2027
May 5, 20264 min
NAIC RBC Adjustment Framework Gets Its First Overhaul in 2026
May 5, 20265 min
Progressive's Telematics Flywheel Hits 21M Policyholders: The Data Moat Competitors Cannot Replicate
May 5, 20264 min
USPTO Inventorship Guidance Reshapes Carrier AI Patent Filing Strategy
May 5, 20264 min
Agentic AI Cuts Small Commercial Quote-to-Bind to Minutes: What Chubb and Hartford Q1 2026 Earnings Reveal
May 4, 20264 min
US Cyber Reinsurance Rates Drop 32% at April 2026 Renewals: What Actuaries Need to Know
May 4, 20264 min
Hartford's Algorithmic Impact Assessment Sets the Carrier Transparency Bar
May 4, 20264 min
Insurance AI Pivots From Claims Efficiency to Underwriting: What the ILTF 2026 Shift Means for Carriers
May 4, 20264 min
NAIC CLO Capital Overhaul Targets PE-Backed Life Insurers With 26x Factor Increases
May 4, 20264 min
2026 Tariffs Inflate Claims Severity Across Auto and Property Lines
May 3, 202612 min
ACA 2027 Rate Filings: Pricing Actuaries Face a GLP-1 Credibility Problem
May 3, 20269 min
LTC Rate Increase Approvals Signal the Floor on New-Business Pricing
May 3, 20268 min
McKinsey Maps the Agentic AI Path to Core System Overhauls
May 3, 202610 min
NCCI 2026 State of the Line: Workers Comp Profitability Masks a Medical Severity Pivot
May 3, 20268 min
P&C Consumer AI Support Doubles But a Trust Ceiling Persists
May 3, 202612 min
SOA FSA Pathway Delivers Four-Week Grading and Triple Annual Sittings
May 3, 202611 min
Stop-Loss Carriers Rewrite GLP-1 Rules at 2026 Renewal Season
May 3, 202614 min
Stop-Loss Actuaries Are Working With a Broken Frequency Baseline
May 3, 20266 min
Verisk Q1 2026: Seven New AI Modules and a Growing Carrier Pipeline
May 3, 202611 min
30-Hour AI Agents Push the Limits of Carrier Oversight
May 2, 202612 min
Why Carriers Deploy Agentic AI in E&S Lines Before All Else
May 2, 202613 min
AIG Assist Delivers 40% Binding Lift Across Eight Lines in Q1 2026: Inside the Metrics
May 2, 202612 min
MHPAEA 2026: Health Actuaries Must Now Prove Parity Holds
May 2, 202615 min
NAIC Reshapes Life Insurer Capital With New IMR Framework and SSAP 109
May 2, 202616 min
NAIC Launches Working Group on Nonprofit Childcare Liability as Abuse Claims Make Providers Uninsurable
May 2, 202613 min
How Actuaries Validate AI Models for State Rate Filings
May 1, 20265 min
Allstate Q1 2026: Anatomy of a 15-Point Combined Ratio Swing
May 1, 20265 min
CMS Star Ratings Overhaul Sends $18.6 Billion to MA Insurers Over the Next Decade
May 1, 20265 min
Deloitte, Oliver Wyman, and McKinsey Map Insurance AI Priorities for 2026: Where They Agree, Where They Diverge
May 1, 20264 min
LDTI Year Three: Earnings Volatility Lessons for Life Actuaries
May 1, 20265 min
Machine Learning for Loss Reserves: The ASOP Compliance Gap
May 1, 20265 min
Actuarial Week in Review: April 27 to May 1, 2026
May 1, 20266 min
ACA Benchmark Premiums Jump 21.7% in Largest Surge Since 2018: Rate Filing Decomposition
April 30, 20264 min
AIG Q1 2026: First Quarter as a Pure-Play General Insurer Sets the Baseline
April 30, 20264 min
Duck Creek's Agentic AI Platform Redefines the P&C Vendor Stack
April 30, 20265 min
Three Months to the EU AI Act: Insurers Need Compliance Actuaries
April 30, 20265 min
Insurer AI Adoption Hits 82% But Only 7% Reach Full Scale: Diagnosing the Maturity Gap
April 30, 20265 min
NAIC Cybersecurity Portal Centralizes Insurer Breach Reporting Across 19 Model Law 668 States
April 30, 20265 min
NAIC Strengthen Homes Act Model Law: The Actuarial Blueprint for Catastrophe Mitigation Premium Credits
April 30, 20265 min
Pension Risk Transfer Buy-Ins Overtake Buyouts in the $49B 2025 PRT Market
April 30, 20264 min
Q1 2026 P&C Earnings Map the Cycle's Next Inflection: Cross-Carrier Synthesis
April 30, 20265 min
Severe Convective Storms Overtake Hurricanes as the Costliest Insured Peril: What P&C Actuaries Need to Recalibrate
April 30, 20265 min
Verisk Q1 2026: AI Governance Friction Extends Sales Cycles as Revenue Beats Estimates
April 30, 20264 min
AIG-McGill $1.6B Agentic AI Deal Reshapes the Follow Market
April 29, 20265 min
CMS 2027 Medicare Advantage Rate Reversal: What 2.48% Means for Plan Actuaries
April 29, 20265 min
Insurance AI Hits the ROI Wall After Years of Pilots: Which Carriers Are Converting Spend Into Actuarial Results
April 29, 20265 min
NAIC Four-Tier AI Risk Taxonomy Redefines Insurer Compliance
April 29, 20265 min
Progressive's Investment Income Engine Powers Q1 2026 Growth: A Float Economics Case Study
April 29, 20264 min
$785B Reinsurer Capital Sets a Structural Cycle Floor: Why a Hard Market May Not Return Before 2029
April 28, 20265 min
CAS Preliminary Exam Review Signals the Biggest Content Overhaul in a Decade
April 28, 20265 min
NAIC Flags Agentic AI as Insurance’s Next Governance Gap
April 28, 20265 min
Travelers Deploys Anthropic AI Assistants to 10,000 Staff: Inside the Largest Carrier-to-Foundation-Model Partnership
April 28, 20265 min
Verisk CG 40 47 Creates an AI Liability Pricing Gap: From GL Exclusion to Standalone Market
April 28, 20265 min
AI Fraud Detection in P&C: Testing Deloitte's $160B Savings Claim
April 27, 20264 min
2026 Cat Bond Issuance Outpaces 2025 With $14B Maturing: The Reinvestment Wave Reshaping ILS Pricing
April 27, 20264 min
Chubb Q1 2026: 84% Combined Ratio Masks Greenberg's Warning on 'Dumb' Property Softening
April 27, 20264 min
Life/Health M&A Hit $54B in 2025 on 14 Megadeals: What Milliman's Report Means for Actuarial Consulting Pipelines
April 27, 20264 min
Soft Market Returns to P&C: A Reserve Adequacy Playbook for the 2026 Pricing Downturn
April 27, 20265 min
2026 Crop Insurance RP Prices Settle Below Corn and Soybean Break-Evens
April 24, 20264 min
Hartford Q1 2026: Personal Lines Turnaround Faces Its Earned-Rate Test
April 24, 20265 min
IAIS Opens 2026 ICS Baseline Self-Assessment Across 18 Jurisdictions
April 24, 20264 min
NAIC Pulls the Plug on the Investment Subsidiary RBC Category: What Life, P&C, and Health Filers Face
April 24, 20265 min
Swiss Re sigma 02/2026 Signals End of the E&S Boom as Admitted Markets Reassert
April 24, 20264 min
Actuarial Week in Review: April 20 to April 24, 2026
April 24, 20264 min
Milliman April 2026 PBI: PRT Buyout Cost Falls to 101.1% as Competitive Spread Widens to Three Points
April 22, 20264 min
NCOIL Genetic Testing Model Act: What Life Underwriting Faces in Spring 2026
April 22, 20265 min
UnitedHealth Q1 2026: 83.9% MBR Resets the Medical Trend Debate
April 22, 20265 min
Florida Cat Fund Exodus: Seven Carriers Drop to the 45% Statutory Floor for the 2026 Contract Year
April 21, 20264 min
Gallagher Re April 2026 First View: Cyber Off 32%, Property Cat Off 20%, and the Softest April Since 2017
April 21, 20264 min
Medicare Part D 2026: Year-One Redesign Data Flips Key Actuarial Assumptions
April 21, 20265 min
Munich Re Ambition 2030 Sets an 80% Combined Ratio as Reinsurance Price Floor
April 21, 20264 min
NAIC C-2 Longevity Risk RBC Charge: Framework Takes Shape for PRT and Longevity Reinsurance
April 21, 20264 min
NCCI 2026 State of the Line Preview: Reading the Comp Cycle Before AIS Orlando
April 21, 20265 min
SOA FSA Flexible Pathway: What the March 2026 First Sitting Revealed
April 21, 20264 min
Florida Citizens May 2026 Depopulation Hits 184K: Takeout Economics, HB 837, and Startup Carrier Solvency
April 20, 20265 min
Section 417(e) April 2026 Rates: Lump Sum Window Slams Shut on 2027 Elections
April 20, 20264 min
Chubb Q1 2026 Earnings Preview: Can the 81.2% Combined Ratio Streak Survive the Cats?
April 19, 202614 min
CSU April 2026 Atlantic Hurricane Outlook: 13/6/2 Below-Average Call, El Nino, and the Reinsurance Read
April 19, 202613 min
IAIS Targets FundedRe and Complex Assets in 2026 Global Capital Revamp
April 19, 202613 min
NAIC Indexed Annuity Illustrations: AG 49-B Reform Advances in Spring 2026
April 19, 202613 min
NAIC SVO Buckles Under Private Letter Rating Filing Surge: What CIOs and Actuaries Should Prepare For
April 19, 202612 min
Colorado AI Act: 73 Days Until the June 30, 2026 Insurance Deadline
April 18, 202613 min
IFRS 18 Arrives in 2027: Why Insurers Need 2026 Comparatives Now
April 18, 202615 min
Japan April 2026 Renewal: Double-Digit Property Cat Cuts and the Post-Antitrust Buying Reset
April 18, 202614 min
Progressive Q1 2026: 86.4 Combined Ratio, 9% PIF Growth, and the 12.5-Point Property Cat Load
April 18, 202611 min
California FAIR Plan's 35.8% Wildfire Rate Hike: Cat Models, Reinsurance Costs, and a Territory Dispersion Story
April 17, 20265 min
LDTI's First Full Year for Non-Public Life Insurers in 2026: What Mutuals, Fraternals, and Smaller Stock Companies Should Be Disclosing
April 17, 20264 min
Travelers Q1 2026: $325M Prior Year Release and the AY 2025 Uncertainty IBNR
April 17, 20265 min
USPTO Automated Search Pilot Ends April 20: What It Means for Insurance AI Patents
April 17, 20265 min
Verisk's 2026 Gen AI Exclusion Splits P&C AI Liability Coverage: Pricing Two Products on Thin Data
April 17, 20265 min
Actuarial Week in Review: April 13 to April 17, 2026
April 17, 20264 min
Allstate's $925M March Cat Bill Signals a Severe Convective Q1 Across the P&C Industry
April 16, 20264 min
Brookfield-Just Closes as Milliman PFI Ends an 11-Month Streak: What Changes for PRT Pricing in 2026
April 16, 20265 min
CMS 2027 MA Final Rule Jumps to 2.48% vs. 0.09% NPRM: What Changed in Trend, Risk Score, and Stars
April 16, 20264 min
EIOPA Cuts 26% of QRTs: The Solvency II Reporting Reset for 2027
April 16, 20264 min
NAIC Life RBC C-3 Field Test Targets New GOES Generator: What Changes for VA and FIA Capital
April 16, 20264 min
Agentic AI Patents: Why USAA Leads and Most Carriers Lag Behind
April 15, 20264 min
Iran War Reshapes Specialty Reinsurance Pricing: Marine, Aviation, and Political Violence in a Two-Speed Market
April 15, 20265 min
Morgan Stanley's $9.3 Billion AI Savings Forecast for P&C Insurers: A Carrier-by-Carrier Breakdown
April 15, 20264 min
NAIC Weighs Jump From AI Bulletin to Enforceable Model Law: 33 Comment Letters Reveal the Fault Lines
April 15, 20265 min
State Farm, USAA, and Allstate Hold 77% of Insurer AI Patents: What the Concentration Means for the Rest of the Industry
April 15, 20264 min
AIG Deploys LLM Agents at Lloyd’s via Palantir Foundry: Syndicate 2479 and the $4 Billion E&S Bet
April 13, 20264 min
Cat Bond Market Hits $63.9 Billion as Pension Funds Scale Up: Q1 2026 in Full
April 13, 20264 min
Chubb Plans 20% Headcount Cut in Multi-Year AI Push: What It Means for Actuaries
April 13, 20265 min
Guidewire PricingCenter Tests the Actuarial Build vs. Buy Decision
April 13, 20264 min
Munich Re Cuts Retrocession 61% and Scraps All Sidecar Programs for 2026
April 13, 20265 min
AG 55 First Filing Hits: What Life Actuaries Learned
April 12, 20264 min
NAIC Proposes Third-Party AI Vendor Registry for Insurers: Supply-Chain Oversight Comes to Insurance AI
April 12, 20264 min
SOA Job Analysis Survey May Reshape the ASA Credential Around AI Skills
April 12, 20264 min
Swiss Re AGM 2026: The USD Pivot, Transformation Hire, and Board Signals Every Reinsurance Actuary Should Read Together
April 12, 20264 min
Verisk Synergy Studio Rewrites the Cat Modeling Playbook: Cloud Architecture, Competitive Dynamics, and What It Means for Pricing Actuaries
April 12, 20264 min
USPTO Section 101 Reset: What Changed and Why It Matters for Insurance AI Patents
April 11, 20265 min
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April 3, 202614 min
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April 3, 202611 min
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April 2, 202612 min
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March 30, 202610 min
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March 30, 202611 min
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The AI Patent Race in Insurance Underwriting: How AIG and Quantiphi Are Building Competing IP Moats
March 27, 202616 min
Inside AIG’s Agentic AI Underwriting Machine: How Palantir, Claude, and 4 Million Data Points Are Rewriting Commercial Insurance
March 26, 202616 min
What AIG’s AI Underwriting Patents Mean for Carriers Building Their Own Systems
March 26, 202611 min
What AIG’s First AI Underwriting Patent Reveals About How It Processes 370,000 E&S Submissions
March 26, 202612 min
AIG’s Second AI Patent Is a Blueprint for LLM Auditability in Insurance Underwriting
March 26, 202612 min
AIG’s Third AI Patent Tackles the Hardest Problem in Insurance Document Processing: Multi-Table Spreadsheets
March 26, 202615 min
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March 24, 20269 min
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March 23, 20265 min
The AI Governance Gap in Actuarial Practice: When Management Moves Faster Than Standards
March 22, 202612 min
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March 22, 20264 min
AI in Actuarial Science 2026: How Machine Learning, Generative AI & Automation Are Transforming the Profession
February 24, 202613 min
Private Equity in Insurance 2026: The $704 Billion Convergence Reshaping Life, Annuities & Actuarial Practice
February 24, 202613 min
Actuarial Standards of Practice (ASOPs) 2026 Update: The Busiest Standard-Setting Cycle in a Generation
February 23, 202613 min
ESG & Climate Disclosure for Insurers 2026: Navigating the Fragmented Regulatory Landscape
February 23, 202613 min
IFRS 17 Implementation in 2026: The $20 Billion Accounting Revolution Reshaping Global Insurance
February 23, 202613 min
Insurtech Landscape 2026: From Disruption Hype to Insurance Infrastructure
February 23, 202614 min
LDTI / ASU 2018-12 in 2026: How Long-Duration Targeted Improvements Are Reshaping Life Insurance Accounting
February 23, 202614 min
Predictive Analytics in Insurance Underwriting 2026: From GLMs to Agentic AI - How Data Science Is Rewriting Risk Selection
February 23, 202612 min
Social Inflation & Litigation Trends 2026: The $529 Billion Challenge Reshaping Casualty Insurance
February 23, 202611 min
CAS Actuarial Exam Pathway 2026: Complete Guide to ACAS, FCAS, and What’s Changed
February 22, 20268 min
Cyber Insurance Market 2026: Actuarial Challenges, Market Dynamics & the Road Ahead
February 22, 202614 min
Reinsurance Market 2026: Record Capital, Softening Rates, and the New Competitive Landscape
February 22, 202613 min
ACA Marketplace 2026: Subsidy Cliff, Enrollment Shock, and What Actuaries Need to Know
February 21, 202613 min
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February 21, 202610 min
AI Regulation in Insurance 2026: The NAIC Model Bulletin, State Adoption, and the Federal Preemption Battle
February 21, 20268 min
The $461 Billion Annuity Boom: What Record Sales Mean for Life Actuaries in 2026
February 21, 20267 min
Climate Risk and Catastrophe Modeling in 2026: How $107 Billion in Losses Is Reshaping Actuarial Practice
February 21, 202610 min
Healthcare Cost Trends 2026: What Actuaries Need to Know About the Forces Reshaping Medical Spending
February 21, 202612 min
Insurance Workforce Crisis & Actuarial Talent Gap 2026: The 400,000-Person Exodus Reshaping the Industry
February 21, 202610 min
Life Insurance Industry Trends 2026: From Record Sales to a Generational Crossroads
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Long-Term Care Insurance Crisis 2026: Actuarial Failures, Soaring Costs, and the Search for Solutions
February 21, 202611 min
Medicare Advantage in 2026: What Actuaries Need to Know About the Market Shakeup
February 21, 20267 min
The P&C Market Cycle in 2026: From Hard Market to Segmented Softening
February 21, 20267 min
Retirement and Pension Actuarial Outlook 2026: Record Funding, SECURE 2.0, and the De-Risking Crossroads
February 21, 202610 min
SOA Actuarial Exams in 2026: Complete Guide to the New FSA Pathway, ASA Requirements, and What’s Changed
February 21, 20268 min
Python, BigQuery, and Docker in the Actuarial Workflow: A Practical Guide
February 13, 202610 min
Reinsurance in 2026: A Complete Guide for Actuarial Students
February 6, 202611 min
Actuary Ranked Among the Best Jobs in America for 2026: Here's What That Actually Means
February 5, 20265 min
AI Underwriting Adoption Expected to Jump from 14% to 70%: What It Means for Actuaries
February 5, 202610 min
Complex Assets Backing Insurance Reserves: CLOs, Private Credit, and RBC Implications
February 5, 202611 min
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