A.m. Best Radio Podcast
- Autor: Vários
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- Duração: 192:47:16
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Insurance news, interviews, rating announcements and more.
Episódios
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Hawaii Homeowners Market Reprices Risk After Wildfires
06/03/2026 Duração: 08minAM Best Senior Associate Editor Renee Kiriluk-Hill examines how Hawaii’s homeowners insurers are responding to catastrophic wildfire losses with steep rate increases, tighter risk selection, and strategic decisions that may foreshadow trends in other catastrophe-exposed states.
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Issues & Answers: An Environmental Shift
05/03/2026 Duração: 07minMelissa Mulhern, assistant vice president of environmental underwriting at Philadelphia Insurance Cos., said their underwriters work with agents and brokers to help them understand that environmental risk includes operational risks not just limited to preexisting contamination.
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AM Best: Outlook for US D&O Revised to Stable
04/03/2026 Duração: 06minThe revision from negative to stable for the directors and officers liability insurance segment is owed to rate stabilization, low loss ratios, tighter underwriting, and reduced regulatory scrutiny, according to a new Best's Market Segment Report discussed by AM Best Elizabeth Blamble, senior financial analyst, AM Best.
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Issues & Answers: Program for Success
03/03/2026 Duração: 05minBrooke Shirazi, vice president of property and ocean marine programs at Nationwide E&S Specialty, said policyholders benefit from the program offerings and the program administrator space because of the deep expertise they bring to the table in that segment and their clear understanding of what the insured needs in order to address risk concerns.
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AM Best: Caribbean Insurers’ Reinsurance Costs, Capacity Constraints Moderate, Although Climate Vulnerability Remains
02/03/2026 Duração: 05minAM Best Directors Bridget Maehr and Ann Modica discuss a new Best's Market Segment Report that finds Caribbean insurers are highly reliant on reinsurance to manage capital, risk retention, and to expand their book of business.
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Mining Insurance Market Stays Competitive Despite Rising Nat Cat Losses
27/02/2026 Duração: 04minBestWire News Editor Dave Pilla reports that abundant global capacity and growing competition are driving lower rates and broader terms in the mining insurance sector, even as recent natural catastrophe losses and mounting liability exposures heighten underwriting challenges.
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AM Best: US Economy Grows Despite Emerging Headwinds
26/02/2026 Duração: 05minA new Best's Special Report finds that the U.S. economy enters 2026 from a position of resilience, despite headwinds, said Ann Modica, director, AM Best.
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INTX’s Lewis: Radical Automation Shapes Future of Insurance Workforce
25/02/2026 Duração: 09minRob Lewis, CEO, INTX Insurance Software, discusses how Chubb’s aggressive automation strategy reflects deeper structural shifts in insurance technology, workforce skill demands and the growing necessity for unified, modern core systems to enable real AI-driven transformation.
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AM Best: Surplus Lines Market Premium Moderates Through Nine Months of 2025
24/02/2026 Duração: 06minAM Best Associate Director David Blades discusses a new Best's Special Report that finds E&S premium market growth increased by 9.7% through the third quarter of 2025, down from 13.5% in 2024, reflecting the impact of competitive market pressures.
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MGAs Tighten Discipline as Softer Market Signals Emerge
23/02/2026 Duração: 04minAM Best Senior Associate Editor Terrence Dopp discusses the early signs of a softening MGA market, the renewed focus on underwriting discipline and capital management, plus how closer alignment with carriers and reinsurers could shape the sector through 2026.
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AM Best’s Briefing – Health: Medicare Advantage – Challenges and Opportunities
20/02/2026 Duração: 01h01minAM Best and industry experts share their 2026 outlook on the Medicare Advantage business segment, including the key drivers. (Event Date: January 15, 2026)
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AM Best: Administration’s Executive Order Could Provide Impetus Towards Stabilizing the Cannabis Insurance Market
19/02/2026 Duração: 07minAssociate Director David Blades and Associate Analyst Alexander Winant, both of AM Best, discuss a new Best's Commentary that finds the executive order doesn’t immediately resolve insurance issues for cannabis-related businesses, but the move to reclassify marijuana under federal law could be a significant step for the insurance market.
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Massachusetts OKs Liberty Mutual Affiliate Reorganization
18/02/2026 Duração: 04minAM Best Senior Associate Editor Steve Hallo breaks down Massachusetts regulatory approval of Liberty Mutual’s affiliate reorganization, including the conversion of several mutual insurers to stock companies and what the move signals about capital access.
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Resilience’s Long: 2026 Cyberthreat Landscape Poses New Challenges for Insurers
17/02/2026 Duração: 24minMaria Long, chief underwriting officer, Resilience, discusses how emerging cyberthreats are transforming cyber insurance and driving the need for stronger underwriting and enhanced client resilience.
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AM Best Chief Operating Officer: Become a Specialist in Your Organization
16/02/2026 Duração: 07minStefan Holzberger, EVP and COO, AM Best, advises emerging leaders to determine use cases for AI and where they can leverage technology to make their work more efficient and to price risk and handle claims more effectively. Holzberger spoke with AM Best TV at the 2026 Emerging Leaders Conference in Nashville, Tenn.
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Microinsurance Network’s Genazzini: Big Carriers Find Opportunity in Tiny Policies
13/02/2026 Duração: 23minMatthew Genazzini, executive director of the Microinsurance Network, details the emergence of microinsurance as a social safety net in many Asian, African and Latin American nations, while Rishi Raithatha, a member of the network, explains the supporting role of mobile technology in agriculture, life and hospitalization coverage in low-income nations.
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Issues & Answers: The Future of Protection
12/02/2026 Duração: 10minMark Berven, president and chief operating officer, Nationwide Property and Casualty, said that within the next decade, as much as 70% of job skills could be completely different than what they are today.
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AM Best: 3Q25 Snapshot – Personal Lines Momentum Continues to Drive P/C Underwriting Result Improvement
11/02/2026 Duração: 04minAM Best Associate Director David Blades and Industry Research Analyst Helen Andersen discuss a new Best's Special Report that finds a benign 2025 Atlantic hurricane season was predominant factor in the P/C industry's enhanced performance through the first nine months of 2025.
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Coalition’s Toomey: Rising Cyber Interconnectedness Pushes Insurers to Boost Detection, Response
10/02/2026 Duração: 26minJoe Toomey, vice president, underwriting security, Coalition, discusses emerging cyber vulnerabilities such as React2Shell, and how insurers help clients strengthen resilience and manage evolving risk.
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NFIP Misses Deadline Again as DHS Funding Fight Fuels Uncertainty
09/02/2026 Duração: 05minAM Best Senior Associate Editor Steve Hallo explains how short-term extensions, political battles over DHS funding and immigration policy disputes have left the National Flood Insurance Program in limbo, impacting policyholders and major flood insurers.