Research

A new analysis by the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) and the Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I) finds that legal system abuse (LSA) and related litigation trends contributed to $231.6 billion to $281.2 billion found in increased liability insurance losses over the past decade, a surge that far exceeds what can be explained by economic inflation alone.
The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) and the Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute's Committee on Knowledge Extension Research (CKER) announce the 2026 Individual Grant Competition to support the advancement of knowledge in actuarial science.
The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) invites researchers outside the insurance industry, with expertise in modeling longitudinal data, to participate in a property-casualty insurance case study.
The Ratemaking Working Group selected to support four papers from a wide array of impressive proposals, and those works are now published and available to the property-casualty actuarial community.
The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) is offering up to $45,000 for a research paper that provides guidance on pricing flood exposure.
The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) is offering up to $45,000 to fund research quantifying quantifies the impact of hurricane mitigation measures and associated premium credits.
The CAS and the American Risk and Insurance Association (ARIA) have awarded Denisa Banulescu‐Radu and Meryem Yankol‐Schalck the ARIA Prize for their paper, “Practical guideline to efficiently detect insurance fraud in the era of machine learning: A household insurance case.”
The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) and the Society of Actuaries (SOA) jointly published findings from their mid-year emerging risks survey of risk managers. To keep current with the pace of change, this May 2025 flash survey supplements the 18th Annual Emerging Risks Survey conducted in November 2024. You can read the CAS Executive Summary of Key Findings of the November survey on the CAS website.
In 2025, the CAS has been busy publishing important works that advance the field of actuarial science. But if you haven’t been keeping track, here is a quick roundup of things to check out.