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Executives On The Move at Chubb, GEICO, Willis Towers Watson and Alliant
Chubb made two senior management appointments. GEICO promoted an executive involved with national claims operations. Alliant hired an insurance industry veteran with a background in energy and marine ...
Third Point Re’s John Berger to Give Up CEO Slot, Remain as Board Chair
Third Point Reinsurance Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Berger plans to step down as CEO on March 1. His designated replacement: Robert Bredahl, the reinsurer's president and chief ...
Building From the Outside In; Thinking Like Customers
Insurance companies face uncertainties from multiple forces including nontraditional competitors, changing monetary policies and regulations, but none is more powerful than customers' changing ...
XL Group CFO Porrino to Retire on May 1; Robb Will Replace
XL Group Ltd. Chief Financial Officer Peter Porrino is retiring from his executive role this spring, though the Bermuda-based insurer and reinsurer has chosen from within the company to replace him. ...
Many ‘High-Potential’ Employees Actually Lack Leadership Skills
Employees designated high-potential (HIPO) are supposed to be an organization's most capable, most motivated and most likely to achieve positions of responsibility and power. In fact, companies often ...
What Can Richard Branson Teach Us About Loyalty in Insurance?
Leave it to Richard Branson to so perfectly sum up the essence of what it takes to create a loyal team of employees: "Train people well enough so they can leave; treat them well enough so they don't ...
Executives On The Move at AXIS, The Hanover and Swiss Re
An ex-Beazley executive is joining AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. in a leadership Role. The Hanover Insurance Group promoted an executive to become the new CEO of Chaucer Syndicates Ltd., its ...
Unlike Some Automakers, Ford Is Fully Committed to Developing Totally Autonomous Cars
As Ford Motor Co. has been developing self-driving cars, the U.S. automaker has started noticing a problem during test drives: Engineers monitoring the robot rides are dozing off. Company researchers ...