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Hurricane Sandy's track, October 22-29, 2012, from the National Hurricane Center's Tropical Cyclone Report. Image: NOAA/National Hurricane Center.

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Sandy's Left Turn: A Lesson in Ranges, Not Surprises

This guest article is from David Delaney, President & CEO, at Insight Analytics. The storm that redefined "Northeast risk" wasn't even a hurricane when it made landfall. The losses were still no surprise to the models. On the evening of October 29,...

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Florida Sues First Street Over Flood Scores. Who Is Right About Risk?

Florida says First Street's property-level flood scores mislead buyers. The bigger question is how much confidence consumers should place in a risk...

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Mentoring Well: Show Up and Do Not Interfere

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." Albert Schweitzer Arthur C. Brooks recently became a grandfather, and in...

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The Filing Is the Policy: A Producer's Field Guide to the FMCSA Forms That Decide Whether a Trucking Client Exists

This guest article is from Dmitry Borovoy, Founder of TruckerNavi and a New Jersey-licensed property and casualty producer at SafeBridge Insurance....

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Aerial view of the collapsed Cypress Street Viaduct in Oakland after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake

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Loma Prieta's Real Lesson: Excluding the Shake Doesn't Exclude the Loss

This guest article is from David Delaney, President & CEO, at Insight Analytics. The earthquake that delayed a World Series lasted about fifteen...

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Agentic AI in Policy Servicing, Part 3: Keeping Agents in Control

The question raised in nearly every conversation about agentic AI is how to stay in control of automated actions without routing every decision past...

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Agentic AI in Policy Servicing, Part 2: Four Places to Start

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked." John Gall The strongest early candidates for...

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Why Insurance Professionals Should Say What They Actually Think

"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance Insurance runs on judgment shared across many people....

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Efficiency and Experience Are One Investment, Part 2: One Budget

"Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave." Eliyahu Goldratt Part 1 described how insurers came to fund efficiency and...

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Efficiency and Experience Are One Investment, Part 1: The Split

"Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets." Paul Batalden Insurance planning often splits into two separate discussions. One...

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