Ryan Smith just got back from NCCI’s Annual Issues Symposium in Orlando. The twelfth straight year of underwriting profitability for workers’ compensation held. The rooms in Orlando sounded different about it. True’s Amy Sliger walks through five threads from AIS 2026 worth pulling on as carriers head into 2026.
Ethan Mollick takes the AIS 2026 keynote stage with a cross-industry frame on AI adoption. Workers’ compensation needs the localization. We unpack the honest state of AI adoption in our industry, where it is already paying off, where the gaps still are, and what ’embracing the AI revolution’ looks like for carriers, SIGs, captives, MGAs, and TPAs.
When someone says medical severity is up six percent, it sounds like a single data point. NCCI’s Raji Chadarevian frames AIS 2026’s severity session this way: medical severity is more than a single metric. Here’s what’s driving claim costs going into the rest of the decade.
Workers’ comp is a national industry with no national system. From California’s independent bureau to New York’s competitive pressures, state dynamics reveal what’s coming for the entire industry.
The American workforce doesn’t look the way it did five years ago. Workers are older, in different industries, and in different states — and the injury patterns are shifting with them. Here’s what the data says.
Workers’ comp is priced off payroll and shaped by employment patterns. When the economy shifts, carriers feel it — sometimes immediately, sometimes with a lag. Here’s how to read macro trends before they hit your book.
Every year, the NCCI State of the Line defines the conversation at the Annual Insights Symposium. Here’s what the 2026 numbers are likely to reveal about combined ratios, loss trends, and the financial health of the workers’ comp market.