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Travelers’ Longtime President/COO MacLean Will Retire in Early 2018
Brian MacLean, The Travelers Companies' longtime president and chief operating officer, plans to retire in early 2018. MacLean, a 30-year Travelers veteran, has served as president and COO since June ...
American Family Beefs Up Data/Analytics Capabilities With Networked Insights Acquisition
American Family Insurance has purchased a data and analytics software company in a move it said will help accelerate its digital transformation. Financial terms were not disclosed for American ...
Does the Digital Insurer Spell the End of Agents and Brokers?
Does the digital insurer spell the end of agents and brokers? Not at all, according to some speakers at the InsureTech Connect Conference in October. While the roles of agents and brokers in personal ...
Netflix vs. HBO and the Race to the Insurance Customer
"The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us," the chief content officer of Netflix said four years ago. In the insurance world, InsureTech Connect Conference Founder Caribou Honig thinks ...
A Language Lesson for P/C Insurers
InsurTech leaders speaking at the InsureTech Connect Conference in October had a message for traditional insurers they have probably heard before: The language that insurance agents and carriers use ...
Top 10 Takeaways from InsureTech Connect 2017 Conference
More than 3,800 insurance and technology enthusiasts gathered at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas in October for the second annual InsureTech Connect Conference. In addition to insurance executives, the ...
Embracing the Future of Catastrophe Modeling
This year, 2017, marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of catastrophe modeling. Back in 1987, after a few quiet decades of natural catastrophes in the United States, the idea of ...
Agents Still Rule; Consolidation Ahead, State Auto CEO Says
As part of our continuing look at the Future of Insurance (kicked off in the third-quarter edition), Carrier Management asked State Auto CEO Michael LaRocco his view on the question of how insurance ...