General Insurance

UK car insurance prices have fallen by 16% from the third quarter of last year, which is the biggest annual drop recorded since 2014, research by Willis Towers Watson (WTW) and Confused.com has found.

Alin Radu, Laurent Sabatié and Davide De Santis discuss insurers’ use of novel data sources and structures to create innovative parametric products

Yiannis Parizas and Nefeli Pamballi explore what it takes for an actuary to become CEO of an insurance organisation

Niall Fennelly sets out key lessons around electronic health records for insurance, and explores what the future could hold

David Lu and Wendy Wang investigate the increasing global incidence of lung cancer among women who have never smoked

Andrei Badescu, Tsz Chai Fung, X Sheldon Lin and Spark Tseung present a flexible nonlinear regression model and software for insurance risk classification, ratemaking and reserving

Gillian Rutherford-Liske and Samantha Dunn explain the role general insurers can play in tackling extreme weather and ecosystem loss

Dominic Christian talks to Chris Seekings and Roulion Wang about how the insurance industry must come together to develop innovative solutions to the climate crisis

The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) has called on the UK government to do more to help ensure vulnerable and low-income consumers are not priced out of insurance coverage.

Global property insurance premiums are forecast to rise by 22% by 2040 as weather-related catastrophes become both more intense and frequent.