Executive Viewpoint Archives - Carrier Management

What Every CEO Should Know To Protect Their Privacy On Social Media

Social media is all around us, but business executives run some additional risks when using these types of sites. A lot of sensitive information ends up on social media, and there is an undeniable ...

Global Re, Excess WC Discipline Lagging: ACE’s Greenberg, WRB’s Rob Berkley

There are now clear signs that the low interest rate environment is forcing underwriting discipline in the casualty market, carrier executives said during earnings calls last week, but one glaring ...

Validus’ Noonan Slams Berkshire Sidecar, Says Cat Model Won’t Jolt US Re Prices

London market participants are competitive but disciplined, Validus Holdings’ CEO said on Friday. But one pocket of “excessive competition” is coming from Berkshire Hathaway’s Lloyd’s ...

Upcoming Cat Model Change, Capital Markets Pressuring Prop-Cat Rates, Execs Say

As first-quarter earnings reports started trickling in from property/casualty insurers and reinsurers carriers last week, two executives confirmed that property-catastrophe pricing is coming under ...

Imagining A Future Filled With Driverless Cars

Visions of robotic self-driving cars may appear like something from a George Lucas film but in June 2011, this vision took a giant leap toward becoming reality when Nevada became the first state to ...

Economy Looms Large Among Clouds In U.S. Marine Insurance Forecast

The theme last year’s International Union of Marine Insurance conference, “Charting the Course through Economic Uncertainty,” certainly was on target. Marine insurers from around the world were ...