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Reinsurance Market Softness Extends ‘As Far As the Eye Can See,’ CEO Says
The question that crops up whenever reinsurers experience soft market conditions is again being posed to industry executives, with leaders giving varying answers to analysts asking, "What kind of ...
Platinum Eyeing Riskier Assets to Boost Profits in Unending Soft Re Mkt: CEO
With underwriting profitability stalled, Platinum Underwriters Holdings could soon join the list of Bermuda reinsurers turning to riskier assets to boost the investment component of income, the ...
Life Without TRIA: Zurich, ACE Execs Debate Terror Coverage Strategies
Two weeks before the Senate introduced legislation to extend the federal terror insurance backstop, carrier executives revealed opposing plans for offering coverage to customers exposed to terror ...
AIG Aims to Be Smartest Casualty Insurer, Schimek Says
Innovation and customer focus are central to the strategy of the one of the nation's largest property/casualty insurers, for which being the biggest competitor is not the primary goal, according to ...
P/C Carrier CROs Say Board Concerns Higher on Strategic, Operational Risk Than Nat Cat
Members of risk committees of the boards of directors of property/casualty insurance companies have more on their minds than the abilities of their companies to withstand tail risks like devastating ...
Nearly Half of Security Execs Say Insurers Alone Should Pay Costs of Physical Terror Attacks
Forty-seven percent of security executives across of a variety of industries believe that private insurance companies alone should pay for worker injuries and property damage in the aftermath of a ...
Markel’s Michael Crowley: Former Broker COO Deepening Carrier Sales Culture
Michael Crowley had been in the chief operating role of property/casualty insurance organizations for nearly two decades when he signed on to be an executive for Markel Corp. in 2009. But for all of ...
From the Front Lines to the C-Suite: Farmers’ David Travers
When he was taking policyholder phone calls as a customer representative for a direct writing carrier 26 years ago, David Travers did not have designs on a position in the C-suite of an agency ...