Overview
Innovation, advanced analytics, and the increased cost of claims are transforming the insurance industry. As insurers face inflation, catastrophe losses, and geopolitical risks, leaders need financial modeling tools for better risk management and decision making.
The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) Spring Meeting 2025 brings together actuarial and insurance professionals to discuss the latest trends in predictive analytics, reserving, pricing, capital modeling, and emerging regulations. This four-day event empowers actuaries from across the property and casualty (P&C) sector to build relationships, attend specialized tracks, and learn more about innovative industry solutions.
Our Oliver Wyman P&C Actuarial team will be sponsoring, moderating, and headlining sessions on reinsurance, pricing, modeling, claims costs, regulatory issues, and data visualization.
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Sessions
Monday, May 5, 1:00 p.m.—2:00 p.m. EST and Tuesday, May 6, 11:15 a.m.—12:15 p.m. EST (encore session)
Social Inflation's Toll On Commercial Auto
As social inflation reshapes the insurance industry, insurers face rising claim costs and impact to the bottom line. This session dives into how social inflation is influencing commercial automobile liability and claim settlements.
Oliver Wyman Speakers: Jason Abril, partner; Andrew Duhancioglu, principal; Ricky Safran, senior manager
Monday, May 5, 2:30 p.m.—3:30 p.m. EST and Tuesday, May 6, 1:45 p.m.—2:45 p.m. EST (encore session)
Bias Measurement And Mitigation In Insurance Pricing
This session covers several approaches to evaluate fairness in an insurance pricing model, including premium and loss ratio metrics, and approaches that take distributional differences into account. The discussion presents an overview of several statistical techniques that may help mitigate bias in models, along with the pros and cons of each approach.
Moderator: Jeremy Shoemaker, principal, Oliver Wyman
Speakers: Mallika Bender, DE&I staff actuary, Casualty Actuarial Society; Craig Sloss, technical consultant and lead data scientist, Definity Financial Corporation
Tuesday, May 6, 9:45 a.m.—10:45 a.m. EST
Shared Economy Regulations Update
In this session our team explores the latest regulations in the shared economy and the impact in actuarial analyses. New and emerging risks will be discussed as well as a historical overview of regulatory developments.
Speaker: Andrew Duhancioglu, principal, Oliver Wyman
Tuesday, May 6, 9:45 a.m.—10:45 a.m. EST and Wednesday, May 7, 8:00 a.m.—9:00 a.m. EST (encore session)
Richer Loss Development Visualizations
This session covers data visualization principles and recommendations to improve loss development analysis. The panel will discuss loss development triangles and tools to access how claims mature over time, best practices for presenting data and analysis to external stakeholders, and will share recommendations for using the R interface with Python modules.
Moderator: Kenneth Smart, principal, Oliver Wyman
Speaker: (John) Mark Shoun, chief data scientist and head of analytics, Ledger Investing
Tuesday, May 6, 11:15 a.m.—12:15 p.m. EST
My Curve Won't Fit! Anatomy Of A Deductible Update
The Insurance Services Office (ISO) has updated its commercial property deductible factors. Join us for an in-depth case study on deductibles, including the effects of inflation, expected losses, and catastrophic events.
Moderator: Kenneth Smart, principal, Oliver Wyman
Speaker: Eliezer Blum, actuarial director, commercial property, Verisk; Arthur DeGraw, commercial property actuarial products, Verisk; Hyun Jin Park, AVP, Everest Global Insurance
Tuesday, May 6, 1:45 p.m.—2:45 p.m. EST
Connecting Primary And Reinsurance Pricing
Explore how analytics from primary pricing are transforming reinsurance practices. We will discuss strategy, data and analytics challenges, and advanced techniques that can be applied in the reinsurance market.
Moderator: Kenneth Smart, principal, Oliver Wyman
Speakers: Dave Clark, senior actuary, Munich Reinsurance; Damiano Massimi, head of digital solutions P&C LatAm, Munich Reinsurance; Jacopo Marchesan, engagement manager, Munich Reinsurance
Wednesday, May 7, 9:30 a.m.—10:30 a.m. EST
Professionalism Kahoot
Improve your knowledge of actuarial standards of practice. We will discuss and apply real world situations and learn through game scenarios and peer competition.
Moderator: Jeremy Shoemaker, principal, Oliver Wyman
Speakers: Peter Royek, actuarial senior manager, Eide Bailly, LLP; Bob Wolf, vice president and chief actuary, Stonetrust Commercial Group
Meet The Team
