Beyond the Headlines: Is Success in the Florida Property Market Achievable?
July 9, 2025 - 11am ET, 5pm CET
Join Actuarial Data Scientist Max Martinelli from Akur8 and Director of Actuarial and Data Science Brent Petzoldt from Windward Risk Managers for a session on the Florida property market. Florida is the world’s riskiest property market from a natural catastrophe perspective and has received no shortage of media coverage in the recent past. Hurricanes, severe convective storms, litigation abuse, roofers, insurance reform. In this session, we will look at a brief history of the FL homeowners market, recent challenges and developments, cold hard (data-based) facts on the true cost of homeowners insurance in the state, whether the market is healing or defunct, and a collection of case studies that demonstrate the unique types of analytics and modeling carriers are conducting as they pursue financial soundness and consumer affordability in this challenging market.
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Beyond the Headlines: Is Success in the Florida Property Market Achievable?
July 9, 2025 - 11am ET, 5pm CET
Join Actuarial Data Scientist Max Martinelli from Akur8 and Director of Actuarial and Data Science Brent Petzoldt from Windward Risk Managers for a session on the Florida property market. Florida is the world’s riskiest property market from a natural catastrophe perspective and has received no shortage of media coverage in the recent past. Hurricanes, severe convective storms, litigation abuse, roofers, insurance reform. In this session, we will look at a brief history of the FL homeowners market, recent challenges and developments, cold hard (data-based) facts on the true cost of homeowners insurance in the state, whether the market is healing or defunct, and a collection of case studies that demonstrate the unique types of analytics and modeling carriers are conducting as they pursue financial soundness and consumer affordability in this challenging market.
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Max Martinelli
Max Martinelli joined Akur8 as an Actuarial Data Scientist in 2023. He works with clients to ensure they get the most out of Akur8's transparent machine learning software. This ranges from actuarial modeling advice to collaborating on how an insurer can get the most out of their data. Before this, Max worked in various actuarial and data science roles at Allstate for nearly 8 years. He has worked on auto, property and specialty lines with a broad scope of projects. These ranged from traditional actuarial indications to price optimization to cutting-edge high-fidelity telematics models. His work spanned from production grade models to rapid research models to further Allstate's pricing sophistication with extensive use of GLMs, GLMnets, GBMs and Bayesian GLMs.
