Brand Management & Sales
China Orders Insurers to Halt Sales of Smog Insurance
Chinese regulators have told the country's two largest insurers to stop selling coverage against smog, a week after such policies were launched, the China Daily reported. The newspaper did not say ...
GEICO’s Advertising Spending Slows But Still Tops $1B: SNL
GEICO, with its Gecko and Maxwell the pig mascots, has been the leader in advertising spending among U.S. property/casualty insurers for at least five years through 2013, according to SNL. GEICO is ...
UK Website Selling Online Taxi Insurance
On Thursday, GoTaxi announced that it had launched a new taxi insurance website in the U.K. The website's objective is to match taxi and cab drivers who are looking for all types of taxi insurance ...
Public Service Exits California Workers Comp
Public Service Mutual Insurance Co.'s exit from California's workers compensation market isn't a reflection of the health of the state's workers' compensation system, according to the California ...
China’s Ping An, Ctrip Travel to Sell Smog Insurance to Tourists
Ping An Insurance Group Co., China's second-biggest insurer, is collaborating with Ctrip.com International Ltd. to sell smog insurance to tourists traveling to Beijing and six other Chinese cities. ...
Hartford Financial in Talks to Sell Japan Unit to Orix
Orix Corp., a Japanese finance and leasing firm, said it is in talks to buy Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.'s unit in the country. Nothing has been decided on the purchase, Tokyo-based Orix ...
Damage Control Underway at Allianz’s PIMCO
In mid-February, a group of current and former PIMCO employees were invited to a private farewell party for Mohamed El-Erian on March 10, to mark his impending departure as chief executive of the ...
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 ...