Underwriting

Underwriting is becoming much more sophisticated. It's a transformation opening up opportunities like never before. It's also encountering challenges like never before, and as we saw with price walking, the impact can be immense. These posts give you an independent perspective on such developments.
165 posts
Underwriting
The Insurance Complex: A Bleak Future? public
Personalisation 6 min read

The Insurance Complex: A Bleak Future?

Insurance is becoming a performance market. For insurers to compete, consumers must perform, at first for a competitive premium, progressively for enough cover and eventually for access to the market. What emerges then is ‘an insurance complex’ that defines relations with consumers and society.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
Discriminatory Pricing – the Storm Clouds Move Nearer public
Discrimination 8 min read

Discriminatory Pricing – the Storm Clouds Move Nearer

Further research into discriminatory pricing in UK motor insurance is keeping up pressure on insurers and the regulator to tackle the issue. And with signs that the challenge is evolving, insurers are in danger of failing to see how this issue will grow and impact the heart of their businesses.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
Are Politicians Ready for Wind Re? public
Underwriting 4 min read

Are Politicians Ready for Wind Re?

The development by insurers of individualised flood underwriting capabilities lead to negotiations with UK politicians and civil society for a fairer arrangement. The result was Flood Re. Now insurers are developing similar underwriting capabilities for wind risk. What does this point to?…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
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