Brand Management & Sales
Insurers’ Advertising Spending in Reverse, But for How Long?
You probably know them well: the GEICO Gecko, Flo from Progressive, the Liberty Mutual Emu, Allstate's Mayhem, Jake from State Farm. In a nearly $800 billion dollar industry, with nearly half of it ...
Survey: Carrier Connectivity Top of Mind for Agents
Agents continue to favor carriers and MGAs that offer automation, ranking ease of doing business and time savings at the top of the list of value they get from connectivity, according to a newly ...
Q3 2023 Signals Six Years of Premium Increases for Commercial Lines: CIAB
Overall commercial property/casualty premiums increased slightly more than 8 percent on average in the third quarter, marking six full years of steady increases. According to The Council of Insurance ...
2024 Outlook on the MGA Market: Time to Normalize Difficult Conversations?
The insurance industry experienced widespread and significant tightening in the reinsurance markets in 2022. "Volatility" was the watchword as the year 2022 wound down. Reinsurers raised prices, ...
What to Expect: ‘No Material or Sudden Changes’ in Commercial Insurance Pricing
Even though reinsurance executives are making noise about social inflation and liability rate inadequacy, WTW isn't expecting any major changes in the pricing for commercial casualty or property ...
Paladin Cyber Rebrands as Upfort to Reflect Extended Capabilities
Paladin Cyber, a leading full-stack cybersecurity and insurance platform, has changed its corporate name to Upfort to reflect its expanded capabilities. Upfort also announced two senior hires to ...
AGCS and Local Allianz P/C Entities Now Trading as ‘Allianz Commercial’
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) together with the commercial insurance businesses of local Allianz Property & Casualty (P&C) entities have begun to trade as "Allianz ...
Talk With Fox’s Watters Leads to Big I CEO Rusbuldt’s Early Exit
Bob Rusbuldt—set to retire in about two months as chief executive of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (The Big I)—was relinquished of his duties after an interview he ...