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Cyber Risk Still Not Insured By Most RMs: Towers Watson Survey
Carriers offering cyber insurance may have seen an increase in demand for their specialty insurance policies over the past year, but more than 60 percent of risk managers surveyed say they still ...Insurance Salesman By Choice: PHLY’s Robert O’Leary
For Robert O'Leary, the new CEO of Philadelphia Insurance Company, the days when he peeled himself out of the driver's seat of an unairconditioned car to sell casualty insurance policies around ...
How Brains Of Effective Leaders Are Wired
Effective leaders' brains may be physically "wired" to lead, offering the promise of more precise identification and training, according to studies of U.S. Army officers published by the American ...
Upcoming Cat Model Change, Capital Markets Pressuring Prop-Cat Rates, Execs Say
As first-quarter earnings reports started trickling in from property/casualty insurers and reinsurers carriers last week, two executives confirmed that property-catastrophe pricing is coming under ...
Back-To-Back Drought Years Statistically Likely, Platinum CEO Says
When Platinum Underwriters Holdings, Ltd. reported a 6.2 percent drop in first-quarter net premiums last week, CEO Michael Price attributed a small part of the drop to an intentional cut in the ...
Breaking Convention
Did the father sit in candlelight and silence? Or did Jean rant and sob? Did he blame himself or his son …after all he had done for him? We shall never know how Monsieur Poquelin greeted abject ...
Meditation and The Art of Investment: Saft
From Ray Dalio to Bill Gross, some of the biggest names in money management are practicing meditation. At a conference last week in Washington, Dalio expounded on how his practice of meditation has ...
O’Leary Set To Lead PHLY’s High Achievers & Loyal Soldiers
Although the name of the senior-most officer of Philadelphia Insurance is changing, just about everything else is going to stay the same at the 51-year old specialty insurance company, according to ...