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SCOR’s Kessler to Leave CEO Slot in June in Revamped Succession Plan
Denis Kessler, SCOR's chairman and chief executive officer, is stepping down for personal reasons from his CEO role at the end of June, much earlier than expected. The company is replacing him in a ...
Veteran Assurant CEO Colberg to Retire at Year-End; Demmings to Replace Him
Assurant CEO Alan Colberg plans to retire at the end of 2021, and the company has designed Keith Demmings to replace him. Demmings, currently the leader of Assurant's Global Lifestyle segment, has ...
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Buys Big Aon Stake
Berkshire Hathaway Inc said on Monday it has taken a $943 million stake in insurance brokerage Aon Plc and sold large portions of its investments in Chevron Corp and Wells Fargo & Co. The changes ...
New Post-COVID Hybrid Work Arrangements May Not Be Flexible or Functional
Fourteen months after coronavirus confined the world's office-workers to their homes, companies are embarking on another great experiment — how to get their teams back together, in-person, at least ...
One Year In: How Insurers Are Doing on AM Best Innovation Assessments
In early March 2020, AM Best released Scoring and Assessing Innovation, our formalized criteria for measuring a company's innovativeness. Within weeks of its official launch, this methodology was put ...
Progressive ‘Crushing It’ on Profit: Berkshire’s Jain and Buffett
Berkshire Hathaway Chair Warren Buffett and Vice Chair Ajit Jain admit that GEICO ranks behind Progressive in its ability "match rate to risk," but both competitors will soon surpass State Farm and ...
Jobs Might Be in Jeopardy if Workers Refuse COVID Vaccine
Texas nurse Jennifer Bridges plans to go to work on June 7, like it's any other day. The only difference is, when she gets there she expects to be fired. That day is the deadline her employer, ...
Berkshire Hathaway’s Q1 Insurance Underwriting Income Rebounds; Reinsurance Results Mixed
Berkshire Hathaway saw its insurance earnings improve dramatically overall, after taking a hit the previous year when COVID-struck the world. The Warren Buffet-led conglomerate produced $764 million ...