Description: This article provides an update on recent activities from the General Insurance Research Committee.

Description: An introductory article for the June 2024 issue of the General Insurance Insights e-newsletter.

Description: NAIC Approves SOA GI Track for Qualified Actuary Education.

Description: This report identifies and makes recommendations regarding possible exposure measures for pricing and analyzing the risks in cyber insurance. Cyber insurance is an insurance product that is designed to provide protection against the financial consequences of a failure or compromise of an organization’s information system as a result of a cyber event.

Description: The aim of this project has three aspects: (1) providing a comprehensive literature review on telematics car driving data analytics; (2) developing various visual tools and a data cleaning procedure for telematics data; and (3) extracting risk factors from individual trips and improving classic classification ratemaking models with those risk factors.

Description: This study presents a comprehensive approach of real option analysis to climate adaptation policies aiming to mitigate flood risk. The framework focuses on pricing catastrophic risk in coastal regions, allowing for economic growth and uncertainty in the mean sea level rise.

Description: Dive into the challenges of practitioners working across components that make up the Risk Management infrastructure with a variety of health, life and P&C insurers in this panel discussion webcast. Panelists will highlight how these insurers operate with the data and tools available to them and the existing challenges in interactions with an organization's leadership. Be part of this webcast that delves into the interplay between first- and second-line defense and how high levels of independence and professionalism can be achieved in a fast-moving, multi-discipline cross functional ERM role.

Description: The insurance industry is faced with many unforeseen changes such as recent advances in technologies and the associated impacts on the risk assessments. In this session, we focus on two specific developments; (i) the liquidity provision problem on automated market makers (a.k.a. DeFi exchanges such as Uniswap) and the conditions under which liquidity providers should enter or exit the DeFi token pools; and (ii) efficient utilization of drivers telematics data for better risk classification in personal auto insurance.

Description: The landscape of insurance is ever evolving with pet insurance emerging as a significant and rapidly growing segment. This webinar will cover a broad spectrum of topics essential for actuaries venturing into pet insurance, including: The pet insurance market, including major players, consolidation of the market, M&A activity. Actuarial issues like anti-selection spirals and the need (and opportunity) for growth. Regulatory headwinds. Whether you're new to pet insurance or looking to deepen your expertise, this webinar will provide you with the knowledge and tools needed to navigate this growing field successfully.

Description: Artificial intelligence is no longer an emerging technology — it is rapidly becoming the core engine of risk selection, pricing, underwriting, and customer interaction across insurance and financial services. But as models evolve into autonomous agentic systems and decision pipelines become more complex, traditional guardrails are being stress-tested like never before.