Careers
Contact
Locations
Login
Login
Customers
Accountants/Auditors
Captive Managers
Government Insurers
Insurers
Law Firms
Public Entities
Regulators
Self Insureds
Solutions
Alternative Markets
Enterprise Risk Management
Legislative Costing
Litigation Support/Expert Witness
Loss Reserving
Predictive Analytics
Pricing/Product Management
Reinsurance
Products
People
Resources
Knowledge Center
Index of Services
Case Studies
Media Gallery
Catalog
Events
Events & Webinars
In the News
Blog
About
Commitment Beyond Numbers
Mission and Vision
History
Professional Leadership
Community Involvement
Alliances & Partners
Careers
Contact
Locations
Most Popular
Managing the Switch to Computer-Based Testing (CBT) for CAS Exams
Matthew Meade
January 18, 2021
California Homeowners Insurance – Availability and Affordability as Wildfires Burn
Laura Maxwell
January 07, 2021
Comparing COVID-19 to Other Disasters
Trenton Lipka
November 12, 2020
Veterans Day
Aaron Hillebrandt
November 11, 2020
How Being an Actuary Looks Different Now
Trenton Lipka
October 23, 2020
Pandemic and Apocalyptic Skies – 2020 in the Bay Area
Laura Maxwell
October 13, 2020
Cyber Insurance – What’s In Store for Captives
Nick Gurgone
October 01, 2020
Model Monitoring--Can You Afford Not To? Part 2
Greg Frankowiak
August 06, 2020
“To Some Arbitrary n, and Beyond!”
Multiple
July 23, 2020
Model Monitoring--Can You Afford Not To?
Greg Frankowiak
July 16, 2020
The State of Pet Insurance
Multiple
July 15, 2020
Flexibility in the Process
Multiple
July 13, 2020
Navigating COVID-19 as an Actuarial College Student
Michael Mosley
June 30, 2020
Model Implementation—Begin With the End in Mind
Greg Frankowiak
June 17, 2020
The Importance of Data Management and Data Quality
Multiple
June 09, 2020
Supporting MHSSAA and the Vitality of our Profession
Christina Negley
March 27, 2020
Commentary on NAIC’s Casualty Actuarial and Statistical Task Force White Paper – “Regulatory Review...
Greg Frankowiak
March 24, 2020
Commentary on Actuarial Standard of Practice No. 56 – “Modeling”
Greg Frankowiak
March 03, 2020
Connecting the Dots of Insurance Fraud Using Graph Analytics
Radost Wenman
February 19, 2020
How We Celebrate at Pinnacle: Giving Back!
Luann Anderson
January 21, 2020
Subscribe to Our Blog
California Homeowners Insurance – Availability and Affordability as Wildfires Burn
Laura Maxwell
•
January 07, 2021
Posted in:
Blog Posts
,
Homeowners
,
Insurance / Insurers
,
Personal Lines
As of November 2020, there were 9,279 wildfires in California. These incidents were responsible for 4.2 million acres burned, 31 fatalities and over 10,000 structures damaged or destroyed. According to Cal Fire, significant fire potential remained above normal across Southern California through December. Even before the devastating year, the California Department of Insurance (CDI) was researching the availability and affordability of wildfire coverage. One step in increasing availability was ordering the California FAIR Plan to provide a comprehensive policy in addition to its fire-only coverage by June 1, 2020.
Read more
Tags:
Risk
,
California fires
,
CAT modeling
,
catastrophe
Comparing COVID-19 to Other Disasters
Trenton Lipka
•
November 12, 2020
Posted in:
Blog Posts
,
Insurance / Insurers
,
News
COVID-19 has been of those rare events that has gotten the entire nation and the entire world to stop and pay attention to it. There have been a few of these events that have occurred in my lifetime, including the September 11 terrorist attacks, the hurricane season of 2004, Hurricane Katrina and the stock market crash of 2008. For me, however, the COVID-19 pandemic is the first crisis I have experienced as a part of the workforce. I sat down with Principal and Consulting Actuary Rob Walling to better understand the impact those earlier, notable and older disasters had on insurance, as well as the potential parallels with COVID-19. Rob has experience working with a wide variety of insurance coverages through all of these periods of time and provides a keen perspective to the effects any of these catastrophes have on the insurance industry.
Read more
Tags:
Hurricane
,
COVID-19
,
coronavirus
,
pandemic
,
terrorism
Pandemic and Apocalyptic Skies – 2020 in the Bay Area
Laura Maxwell
•
October 13, 2020
Posted in:
Blog Posts
,
Insurance / Insurers
,
News
Wildfire season started early and ferociously. According to CAL Fire’s website, as of October 4, over 4 million acres have burned. That is more than 20 times higher than the acres burned in 2019 for the same time period. Five of the top twenty largest wildfires in California have occurred in 2020 and wildfire season is not yet over. Although I’m very lucky to be safe from the fires, there are reminders of the devastation with the dark skies and the falling ash. Checking both the air quality index and pandemic metrics has become my daily habit.
Read more
Tags:
Connecting the Dots of Insurance Fraud Using Graph Analytics
Radost Wenman
•
February 19, 2020
Posted in:
Blog Posts
,
Insurance / Insurers
,
Predictive Analytics
In
The State of Insurance Fraud Technology
(2019), the most recent report published by the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud (CAIF) and the SAS Institute, nearly 75% of survey participants experienced a rise in fraudulent claims in the past three years. This represents a disturbing 11% increase since 2014. The survey was based on 84 primarily property and casualty insurers. None of the participating insurers indicated that fraud had decreased significantly during the same time frame. As a consequence of the rise in fraudulent claims, insurers are moving away from traditional formulaic business rules and red flags for identifying fraud. Instead, insurers are enriching their data analytics arsenals to include more sophisticated tools, methods and means to investigate fraud.
Read more
Tags:
Captives and Agribusiness
Aaron Hillebrandt
•
December 02, 2019
Posted in:
Blog Posts
,
Captives
,
Insurance / Insurers
Two industries not typically associated with innovation are insurance and agriculture. Today, it’s an inaccurate perception. Agriculture is perhaps the world’s original story of innovation. For millennia, agriculture’s history has been one of resourcefulness, and finding ways to grow food through every form of peril, from pests to drought. The modern agricultural industry, agribusiness, has continued that story of innovation with new products and novel approaches that save water, reduce crop disease and increase crop yields. Farmers are even relying on technological advancements like drones, robots and gene editing in their operations.
Read more
Tags:
Captives
,
Agribusiness
,
agriculture and insurance
,
agriculture risk
1
2
3
4
5
Subscribe to Our Blog
« Show All Blog Posts
Categories
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Alternative Markets
(0)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Apex Webinar
(5)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Captives
(4)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Commercial Lines
(0)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Cyber
(6)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
General
(21)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Health Care / MPL
(1)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Homeowners
(6)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Insurance / Insurers
(18)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Loss Reserving
(0)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
ORSA
(0)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Personal Lines
(3)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Predictive Analytics
(6)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Pricing & Product Management
(6)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Ridesharing
(0)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Self-Insured Entities
(1)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Telematics / UBI
(2)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Workers’ Compensation
(4)
Authors
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Aaron Hillebrandt
(2)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Amanda Conklin
(1)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Brittany Henrich
(1)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Christina Negley
(2)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Derek Freihaut
(1)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Erich Brandt
(1)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Greg Fears
(3)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
James Wencil
(1)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Joe Herbers
(6)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Jordan Paszek
(1)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Laura Maxwell
(4)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Linda Brobeck
(2)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Multiple
(22)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Nicholas Alicea
(1)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Nick Gurgone
(1)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Nicole McArdle
(1)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Radost Wenman
(4)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Rob Walling
(1)
RSS
Expand/Collapse
Trenton Lipka
(2)
«
January 2021
»
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
27
28
29
30
31
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
1
2
3
4
5
6