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‘Event’ Needed to Boost International Insurance Pricing: QBE Group CEO
When Australia's QBE Insurance Group reported a 24 percent leap in first-half earnings last week, the leader of the company signaled the ability of the company to weather both natural catastrophes ...
Leaders Review Failures, Successes and Joint Innovation Efforts
Failing to innovate is no longer an option in the property/casualty insurance industry, according to leaders who say that a tolerance for ill-timed or less-than-perfect product launches is better ...
For years, the insurance industry has been working to reduce the friction that slows down underwriting, claims, and servicing. Now,...
How Progressive, Assurant and Others Innovated Their Innovation Processes
While culture is the central ingredient in the innovation recipes of most property/casualty insurers, strategy games and idea labs are among the more novel approaches P/C leaders describe when asked ...
P/C Insurers Blocking Their Own Roads to Innovation
Property/casualty insurers face a number of external obstacles on the road to delivering more innovative products and reimagining their operations, but the ones that really get in the way come from ...
Industry ‘Groping in Dark’ to Attract Millennials, Duperreault Says
Boring is not a description of the insurance industry that sits well with Brian Duperreault. But it's one that the majority of millennials use to explain why insurance has little appeal as a career ...
Growing for the Future: Insurers Describe Their Leadership Development Programs
Today's executive leadership development programs are morphing from training at the senior level to cultivating the perfect dream team of executive leaders. Insurers now are tapping into the overall ...
Willis Plans Support for Inclusion@Lloyd’s Diversity Festival
Willis Group Holdings has announced its support for a new London market collaboration to host a diversity and inclusion festival. The Inclusion@Lloyd's "Dive In" festival is a joint initiative ...
12 Essential Skills and Practices for the Leaders of Today and Tomorrow
What makes for a strong and sound leader? There invariably are a number of leadership archetypes: the charismatic leader, the paternal leader, the collegiate leader, the narcissistic leader—just to ...