Content from Elizabeth Blosfield
Elizabeth is Deputy Editor at Carrier Management. She hosts The Insuring Cyber Podcast and Between the Lines, a quarterly video series exploring topics in Carrier Management's latest magazine edition. Elizabeth can be reached at eblosfield@wellsmedia.com.
Insurance Industry Disrupters Lead to New Risks, Uncertainty Among Insurers
Disruptive trends in the insurance industry are changing the risk landscape and creating an atmosphere of uncertainty as insurers seek to move forward in the wake of new technology and transforming ...
Travelers Is Training Dozens of Its Claims Professionals to Operate Drones
Travelers' Claim University, founded in 2007, is working to change the way its claims professionals do business through the use of drones to assist in property inspection and claims analysis. The ...
Utica National: Circling for Profitable Growth
Headquartered in New Hartford, N.Y., Utica National Insurance Group consists of 19 companies. Its products include auto, home and specialized markets such as graphic arts, educational, religious ...
Donegal Group: Appointments in Underserved Areas
Donegal Group's growth has been fueled by its acquisition of medium-sized "Main Street" carriers. Since 1995, it has completed six acquisitions or participated in other carriers' business through ...
Ex-CFO of Bankrupt Enron Offers D&O Lessons from Accounting’s ‘Gray’ Areas
Andrew Fastow, former chief financial officer of Enron Corp., a now-defunct energy trading company swept up in a massive fraud scandal in the early 2000s, warned a room full of directors and officers ...
2017 Forecast: Financial Experts Offer Cautious Optimism for P/C Insurers
Financial experts are expressing cautious optimism for the P/C industry as it heads into 2017, though they say that multiple factors will continue to pose a challenge. Perhaps one of the biggest ...
A First for the Nation: New York’s Crime Insurance Reg Kicks in This July
New York State's Department of Financial Services (DFS) in December issued a new regulation that prohibits insurance companies from denying commercial crime insurance coverage to New York businesses ...
Michigan’s Auto-Owners Insurance Proposes Affiliation With New Hampshire’s Concord General Mutual
Auto-Owners Insurance, a Lansing, Michigan, based insurance provider, has announced its proposed affiliation with the Concord, N.H., based Concord General Mutual Insurance group of companies. The ...