CEO / Chief Executive
By the Numbers: S&P 500 CEO Pay Raises in 2017
The typical big company CEO raked in $11.5 million last year in salary, stock and other compensation, according to a study by executive data firm Equilar for The Associated Press. That's an 8.5 ...
CEO Zyskind’s Family Injects $300M into AmTrust
AmTrust Financial Services Inc., a provider of specialty property and casualty insurance including workers compensation, surged in New York trading after members of the chief executive officer's ...
Duperreault’s AIG Arrival Helped Free It From A.M. Best Review With Negative Implications
A.M. Best released American International Group from "under review" special scrutiny, in part because the struggling insurance giant brought in industry veteran Brian Duperreault to help right the ...
State Auto Exec Jessica Clark Is GuideOne Insurance’s Next CEO
GuideOne Insurance is bringing on a longtime executive from State Auto Financial Corp. as its next leader. Jessica Clark will officially become chief executive officer of the Iowa-based insurer on ...
Carrier CEO Viewpoint: Seeing Through Customers’ Eyes Gives Leadership Vision
"Customers have pretty high expectations of us,” says Richard P. Creedon, president and CEO of Utica Mutual Insurance Co. of New Hartford, N.Y. As the company’s freshman leader—he completed his ...
Executives On The Move at XL Catlin and JLT Specialty USA
An ex-Zurich Insurance exec is coming to XL Catlin in a major leadership role. JLT Specialty USA appointed a new vice president who will help assist the restructuring community in solving complex ...
Top Five Regional Insurers: Combined Ratio Rankings
National insurers have produced higher returns on equity and lower combined ratios in recent years, according to our analysis of financial results (published in a companion article here). Drilling ...
Financial Analysis: Why Regional Writer ROEs Lag Nationals
A comparison of the returns on equity of national and regional writers of property/casualty insurance produces a result that may not seem terribly intriguing: National writers win, hands down. But ...