Chad Hemenway

• Philadelphia Story

  By Bryant Rousseau, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  April 12, 2012

  Welcome to our annual RIMS issue, where we dedicate an extra helping of pages to risk management to coincide with the Risk and Insurance Management Society’s yearly conference and exhibition—which is taking place this week in Philadelphia.

• Moody's: Insurers to Benefit from Florida PIP Legislation

  By Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 19, 2012

  The recent passage of legislation reforming Florida’s personal injury protection auto-insurance system should help combat rising claims costs and insurance rates in the state, and is credit-positive for insurers, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

• October Rates Provide More Evidence of Market Shift; Demand to Rise in Nontraditional Risks

  By Mark E. Ruquet  |  November 10, 2011

  Showing rate increases/decreases were flat for the month, MarketScout’s October barometer provides further evidence of the soft market making a turnaround. One insurance-broker executive says he believes the industry is actually primed for an increase in demand— although likely in areas outside the traditional property and casualty arena.

• Invasion of the Goths

  By Ken Brownlee, CPCU  |  May 31, 2011

  Insurance is as ancient a field as organized religion, and both have undergone considerable change over the millenniums.

• Commercial Market To Take Biggest Hit From Japan Quake

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 25, 2011

  As a pair of global reinsurers issued loss estimates in the billions for the March 11 Japan earthquake and tsunami, a Moody’s report indicates that commercial property and casualty insurers could take the biggest hit both in losses and credit worthiness from the event.

• Covering The Quake

  By Bryant Rousseau  |  March 18, 2011

  As someone who lived in Japan for two years—and who experienced the Kobe earthquake firsthand—the devastating disaster that struck the country hit me hard from a personal standpoint.

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  2011: A Different Take On the Year Ahead

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  January 18, 2011

  It's such a gloomy day outside our offices in Hoboken today that I thought I'd lift some spirits with a set of light-hearted predictions for 2011.

• Split Decision On Turn

  By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  January 10, 2011

  Magazine editors are notorious for filling January opinion pages with predictions, and NU's editors are up to the task as well.

• Will Cat Model Revision Up Inland Pricing, Lower Coastal Rates, S&P Asks

  By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  December 29, 2010

  The planned revision of a catastrophe model set for early spring 2011 could impact reinsurance pricing on Jan. 1, and property insurance prices in coastal and inland areas, according to an analyst.

• Indirect Loss, the Infrastructure, and Green

  By Ken Brownlee  |  December 1, 2010

  Global warming, regardless of the scientific disputes, is an expensive reality for all of us, even in the insurance industry.