Market Insights

In the insurance business--as in any business--if you're not growing, you're dying. Growth requires "new"--new products, new markets, and new customers.

How are leading manufacturers able to provide customers with must-have features while achieving weight savings, improved vehicle crash worthiness, fuel economy, and reduced total greenhouse gas emissions? The answer is advanced high-strength steel.

How should we best think about achieving high-quality outcomes through best-practices file-handling and an effective audit process? Here is a model.

To the detriment of consumers, claim adjusters, and the carriers themselves, it's still the wild, wild West when it comes to current practices and processes for handling contents claims.

For many in the insurance industry, the Resolution Trust Corp. (RTC) was a mere footnote in the history books.

Trial simulations, often wrongly referred to as focus groups, are the standard in predicting probabilities of a given outcome.

Comprehensive guidelines specifically intended for a non-engineering audience -- property owners, contractors, and insurance adjusters -- have been developed for the assessment and repair of earthquake damage in residential wood-frame construction.

"Problems associated with Chinese-made drywall are all over the news, and now I am reading that companies may not insure homes if the owners don't repair the drywall damage. Isn't that what insurance is for -- to take care of these type of problems?"