Brand Management & Sales
Play Ball! Starr Companies Signs Sponsorship Deal With New York Yankees
The New York Yankees has gained a new sponsor: Starr Companies. The global insurance and investment operation said that its multiyear agreement with the Major League Baseball team makes it the ...
Willis Towers Watson Sees Small U.S. Commercial Insurance Price Uptick in Q4
Another market analysis has determined that average U.S. commercial insurance pricing nudged slightly in the 2017 fourth quarter. Willis Towers Watson's latest Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing ...
Chubb Among Chorus of Companies Cutting Promotional Ties With NRA
Some of the biggest names in corporate America are coming under mounting pressure to cut ties with the National Rifle Association as gun safety activists on Friday intensified calls for a boycott in ...
The Content, Not the Technology, Determines the Success of Transformational CX Projects
News about ever-increasing dollars of InsurTech funding can't help but drive property/casualty insurers to seriously consider tech modernization projects to drive growth and efficiency in 2018. That ...
When to Use Chatbots in Insurance
New technologies generate a great deal of excitement, and there's a positive buzz right now about the potential impact of artificial intelligence, machine learning and automation in the insurance ...
Alive and Well: Reports of the Death of the Independent Agent Were Greatly Exaggerated
When I began my career as a journalist covering the insurance industry back in 1981, many of my early stories reported on dire warnings in a series of studies and expert pronouncements predicting the ...
Captive vs. Independent Agents: Carriers Are Committed to Multiple, Evolving Distribution Channels
Despite the grim outlook forecasted for U.S. agents in a 2013 report by McKinsey & Company, both captive and independent agents remain a viable segment of carrier distribution channels. Even with ...
Purviance Succeeding DeCarlo as AmWINS CEO; DeCarlo Becoming Executive Chair
Charlotte-based global wholesale broker AmWINS Group announced that Scott M. Purviance will succeed M. Steven DeCarlo as the company's chief executive officer, effective May 1, 2018. DeCarlo, who has ...