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.
InsurTech Acceleration Program in Hartford Chooses Startups for Inaugural Effort
Hartford InsurTech Hub, an initiative established in 2017 by Hartford, Conn.-based insurance companies, the city of Hartford and CTNext, has selected the 2018 group of 11 startups that will ...
Property Insurance Industry ‘Feeling the Pressure’ from Cyber Risk, Advisen Panelists Say
Property underwriters are feeling the pressure as cyber has become an increasing source of risk within the property insurance industry, according to panelists at Advisen's 2017 Cyber Risk Insights ...
Beacon Mutual’s New CEO Spero: ‘We’re Within an Hour of Every Policyholder’
The board of directors of Beacon Mutual Insurance Co. has elected Brian Spero as president and CEO of the company, effective in July. The Warwick, R.I.-based workers compensation carrier's board ...
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 ...