The Casualty Practice Council (CPC) provides objective technical expertise to policymakers and regulators on major property/casualty issues, including medical professional liability and flood insurance.
Floods, earthquakes, other natural catastrophes; terrorist events; and mass torts.
Medical professional liability insurance issues.
Use of risk-based insurance scoring in auto and other insurance lines.
Workers’ compensation issues as they relate to property and casualty actuarial practice.
Financial reporting and loss reserving issues in property/casualty actuarial practice.
Risk-based capital issues in property and casualty actuarial practice, including its treatment by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
Soundness and solvency issues facing property and casualty insurance companies.
The Casualty Practice Council submitted comments on the exposure draft of Actuarial Standard of Practice (ASOP) No. 12, Risk Classification (for All Practice Areas).
( )The P/C Extreme Events and Property Lines Committee submitted a comment letter to the California Department of Insurance in advance of the department’s public workshop on its draft regulation that would modify state law to allow for catastrophe modeling to be used for wildfire, terrorism, and flood lines of homeowners and commercial insurance lines.
( )Members of the Committee on Cyber Risk presented during the Midwestern Actuarial Forum (MAF) on the Academy’s Cyber Risk Toolkit, highlighting recent work around cyber data, the state of the cyber insurance market and recent trends in D&O, and the cyber vendor model paper.
( )Academy Senior Fellow Rich Gibson provided a brief overview of the Committee on Cyber Risk to NAIC’s Cybersecurity (H) Working Group. The presentation highlighted the cyber risk toolkit, including an overview on the papers in the toolkit, papers expected to be published in the toolkit later this year, the public policy department’s ongoing research project on cybersecurity, and how the Academy and the committee can be helpful to the Cybersecurity (H) Working Group now that cyber insurance is included in their charges.
( )Academy Casualty Policy Analyst Rob Fischer provided an update on the Casualty Practice Council (CPC) activities of interest to NAIC’s Casualty Actuarial (C) Task Force, including an update on recent publications, and anticipated releases from other CPC workstreams of interest to the NAIC.
( )The Academy’s Health, Life, and Casualty practice councils submitted comments on New York State Department of Financial Services’ proposed insurance circular letter on the use of Artificial Intelligence Systems (AIS) and External Consumer Data and Information Sources (ECDIS) in insurance underwriting and pricing. The councils support efforts to curb underwriting and pricing methods that “reflect systemic biases and can reinforce and exacerbate inequality.”
( )Director of Research (Public Policy) Steve Jackson and Peter Ott, chairperson of the ACI/ACRI (Actuaries Climate Index / Actuaries Climate Research Index) Working Group and a vice chairperson of the Climate Change Joint Committee, delivered a virtual presentation to the German Actuarial Association, “U.S. Actuarial Societies & the American Academy of Actuaries’ Climate Work.”
( )The P&C Committee on Equity and Fairness submitted comments to the Colorado Division of Insurance on its life insurance draft regulation on governance and risk management framework requirements and its applicability to private passenger automobile insurance.
( )Academy Casualty Policy Analyst Rob Fischer presented to the NAIC’s Casualty Actuarial and Statistical (C) Task Force (CASTF) on behalf of Casualty Practice Council and Committee on Property and Liability Financial Reporting (COPLFR) on recent publications and future work products expected for release in December 2023 and early 2024.
( )Derek Jones, chairperson of the Workers’ Compensation Committee, presented on the committee's issue brief, Navigating Workers’ Compensation and Medical Marijuana, during the National Council of Insurance Legislator's Annual Meeting in Columbus, OH.
( )Ron Wilkins, chairperson of the P&C Risk-Based Capital Committee, presented to the NAIC Property and Casualty Risk-Based Capital (E) Working Group and the Catastrophe Risk (E) Subgroup on the Academy’s recently released report to the NAIC on P&C Underwriting Factors and Investment Income Adjustment (IIA) Factors.
( )The Committee on Property and Liability Financial Reporting (COPLFR) submitted a comment letter to the Actuarial Standards Board (ASB) on the second exposure draft of ASOP No. 36, Statements of Actuarial Opinion Regarding Property/Casualty Loss and Loss Adjustment Expense Reserves.
( )The Committee on Cyber Risk released a new chapter in the Cyber Risk Toolkit, "Personal Cyber: An Intro to Risk Reduction and Mitigation Strategies." The chapter identifies some of the penetration points of cyberattacks from an individual’s perspective and examines how an individual can work to minimize their risk of being hacked.
( )The Life Practice Council and Casualty Practice Council submitted comments to the Colorado Division of Insurance on its draft regulation, Concerning Quantitative Testing of External Consumer Data and Information Sources, Algorithms, and Predictive Models Used for Life Insurance Underwriting for Unfairly Discriminatory Outcomes. The comments reiterated support for Colorado’s initiative to prevent unfairly discriminatory practices in insurance and shared actuarial perspectives related to the design of the data testing requirement.
( )P/C Committee on Equity and Fairness Chairperson Lauren Cavanaugh and Vice Chairperson Susan Kent presented at the Colorado Division of Insurance’s stakeholder meeting on Unfair Discrimination in Insurance Practices, focusing on private passenger auto insurance. They cited key points, illustrative examples, and the committee’s February issue brief, Approaches to Identify and/or Mitigate Bias in Property and Casualty Insurance.
( )Comments, analyses, or explanatory material prepared for an external audience on behalf of an Academy group or the Academy as a whole; these include letters, memos, reports, and fact sheets.
Analyses of major actuarial or public policy issues written primarily for policy-makers, regulators, the news media, and the public.
Include white papers and monographs which are longer, more detailed analyses of major actuarial or public policy issues written primarily for policy-makers, regulators, the news media, and the public. Includes monographs and white papers.
Slides presented by the Academy at webinars, seminars, briefings, hearings, or other meetings and events.
The Academy works with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) on the creation and refinement of sensible, effective regulation. These reports and related documents highlight the NAIC-related work of the casualty practice councils.
Written and oral testimony provided to Congress or to other governmental and quasigovernmental bodies.
Practice notes offer examples of current and emerging approaches to selected actuarial tasks. They are intended to supplement the available actuarial literature, especially where the practices addressed are subject to evolving technology, recently adopted external requirements, or advances in actuarial science and other applicable disciplines.
Cyber Risk Task Force Updates Cyber Risk Toolkit
The American Academy of Actuaries’ Cyber Risk Toolkit, developed by the Academy’s Cyber Risk Task Force, is comprised of a series of papers addressing issues pertinent to cyber risk insurance and cyber exposure. Since the initial publication of the Cyber Risk Toolkit, this document has been updated to include the “War, Cyberterrorism, and Cyber Insurance” section and the “Cyber Risk Resource Guide” section. The toolkit will continue to be updated periodically to reflect new and emerging work from the task force. (February 24, 2022)
Cyber Risk Task Force Publishes Cyber Risk Toolkit
The Cyber Risk Task Force released a collection of publications combined together in the Cyber Risk Toolkit. The toolkit is intended to be a resource for interested readers of the general public, public policymakers, the actuarial profession, the insurance sector, and other stakeholders. The toolkit is comprised of an Introduction to Cyber, Cyber Threat Landscape, Silent Cyber, an Introduction to Cyber Data, Cyber Risk Accumulation, Cyber Risk Reinsurance Issues, and Ransomware. The toolkit may be updated periodically to reflect new and emerging work from the task force. (August 25, 2021)