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Buffett to Step Down Following Six-Decade Run Atop Berkshire
Warren Buffett, who built Berkshire Hathaway Inc. into a business valued at more than $1.16 trillion and himself into a celebrity billionaire renowned for his investing acumen and witticisms, will ...
AIG: Turning One Human Underwriter Into Five, ‘Turbocharging’ E&S
Some property/casualty insurers talk about experimenting with artificial intelligence to automate call center responses and back-office operations. But that's not the road to turbocharging growth ...
Is State Farm General Too Big to Fail? Calif. Rate Hearing Concludes
"Too big to fail"—a phrase associated with interconnected publicly traded financial services companies in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis—was revived in a new context last week. During a ...
15% of W.R. Berkley Shares Being Acquired by Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance
Last Friday, W.R. Berkley Corp. said that Japanese property/casualty insurer Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co. would buy a 15% stake in the company through open market purchases or private transactions ...
Progressive: Policies Grow Faster Than Workforce
Parts of Progressive's year-end earnings call early this month sounded a bit like Lemonade's Investor Day last year—with both focused on how automation supports growth without adding people. In ...
Lemonade: 700K Customers on the Car Waitlist
While Allstate's CEO Tom Wilson named GEICO and Progressive when asked about the ability to grow auto insurance in 2025 as competitors do the same, no one on Allstate or Progressive's earning calls ...
Data Insight: Who’s Growing in Personal Lines?
A relative newcomer to the personal lines space—Lemonade—marked a milestone this week, announcing that it surpassed $1 billion of in force premiums, a measure of annualized premiums that the ...
Allstate: How Can You Save on Auto Insurance?
Helping customers to save money is part of the go-forward plan at Allstate, aimed at boosting retention levels that fell in response to rate hikes in recent years. Now that Allstate's combined ratio ...