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Playback Available for AM Best’s Briefing – 2024 Outlook: Is the Industry Equipped to Manage Increasing Uncertainty?

OLDWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Playback is now available for AM Best’s Briefing – 2024 Outlook: Is the Industry Equipped to Manage Increasing Uncertainty?

In this briefing, recorded on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023, senior AM Best analysts discussed 2024 market segment outlooks and key factors that will impact the insurance industry. Topics included how insurers navigate a fragile stock market, geopolitical uncertainty, interest rate responses from the Fed and economic inflation.

They also examined how social inflation, increasing climate risk and a hard reinsurance market will impact the property/casualty segment. Watch the playback here.

Analysts discussed the outlooks for:

  • U.S. Property/Casualty - Personal Lines
  • U.S. Property/Casualty - Commercial Lines
  • Global Reinsurance
  • U.S. Life/Annuity
  • U.S. Health
  • Delegated Underwriting Authority Enterprises

Moderator:

  • Stefan Holzberger, chief rating officer

Panelists:

  • Joseph Burtone, director (Property/Casualty - Personal Lines)
  • Michael Lagomarsino, senior director (Property/Casualty - Commercial Lines)
  • Carlos Wong-Fupuy, senior director (Global Reinsurance)
  • Sally Rosen, senior director (U.S. Health)
  • Greg Williams, senior director (Delegated Underwriting Authority Enterprises)

AM Best is a global credit rating agency, news publisher and data analytics provider specializing in the insurance industry. Headquartered in the United States, the company does business in over 100 countries with regional offices in London, Amsterdam, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Mexico City. For more information, visit www.ambest.com.

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