Underwriting Games: To Manage the Cycle Effectively, Focus on Behavior
When actual prices line up with technical prices, insurers expect underwriting profits to emerge — unless underwriters find ways to adjust technical prices downwards.
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UWX research on cycle management and underwriter behaviour — including the articles first published by Carrier Management, Insurance Journal and Forbes.
Soft Commercial Market Ahead: Prepare for Underwriter ‘Herd Behavior’
The U.S. did not become less litigious between 2013 and 2018, nor did the Atlantic cool. Rates fell anyway. The human factors behind cyclical behaviour.
Commercial Insurance Cycle Management: Managing a Softening Market
A two-day insurance cycle management course in Kloten-Zurich, run with SBS Swiss Business School.
UWX partner with DAinsured
UWX and DA insured announce a partnership.
Prepare for the Soft Market: Why You Need to Set Performance Metrics Now
Underwriters will not impose discipline on themselves. Part two of a two-part series on measuring performance across the cycle.
Viewpoint: Get Ready Now for the Soft Market (Because It’s Coming)
Strong results and hard market conditions make soft market underwriting look like a strange thing to discuss. The warning signs are already there.
UWX Featured in Forbes: How Insurance Teams Can Combat Herd Behavior
UWX research in Forbes: why underwriting teams follow the herd, and what leaders can do about it.
Why Engineering and Construction insurers struggle with betterment
Policy wordings in Engineering and Construction, and what LEG 3/06 does and does not settle.
LEG Presentation: The Voice of the Underwriter
Underwriters, in their own words, on the compromises a softening market asks of them.
IMIA Webinar: Why Underwriters Say They Wrote the Soft Market
UWX research presented to the International Association of Engineering Insurers on why underwriters wrote the last soft market.
Swiss Insurtech Hub Commercial Lines Chapter Collaboration
UWX joins the Swiss Insurtech Hub for the launch of its Commercial Lines Chapter.
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Royalty-free imagery for specialty insurance presentations.
Repricing Is Not Reunderwriting
A rising tide carries all boats. Commercial insurers have brushed aside geopolitics, inflation and nat cat — and reported record results.