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Managing, Not Excluding, New Risks Key To Long-Term P/C Growth: Actuaries
Property/casualty insurers must learn how to manage new risks like nanotechnology, not just exclude them, if they want to survive and grow long-term, according to speakers at the spring meeting of ...
Employee Personality Motivates Job Behavior, Not Carrots & Sticks: Univ. Study
Carrots and sticks have long been the favored tool for business managers looking to motivate their workers, whether it's to encourage with the promise of a raise, or to threaten with firing. But a ...
Airline Insurance Premiums Continue to Fall: Willis
Insurance premiums for airlines continued to go down during the first half of this year in what remains a buyers' market, according to a report by Willis Group Holdings. The loss of an Asiana B777 ...
Study Raises New Concern About Earthquakes’ Links To Fracking Fluids
Powerful earthquakes thousands of miles away can trigger swarms of minor quakes near wastewater-injection wells like those used in oil and gas recovery, scientists reported on Thursday, sometimes ...
Top 10 U.S. Aircraft Insurers: SNL
American International Group Inc. (AIG) has been reported to be the lead insurer for the recent Asiana Flight 214 tragedy in San Francisco. AIG's role is not surprising, given its presence in Asia ...
Europe’s Financial Regulation Scheme Still a Work in Progress
Five years after mismanagement brought the global financial system to the brink of collapse, a Reuters survey reveals yawning differences in the way European Union countries assess whether bankers ...
Drugmakers Search for Safer Painkillers Amid Opioid Abuse Epidemic
Backed by a U.S. campaign to slow abuse of prescription painkillers, drugmakers are devising new forms of the medicines that don't lead to misuse and new products that treat dependency in a bid to ...
How Carriers, Agents Can Adapt As Small Commercial Buyers Move Online
About 52 percent of America's small business insurance customers say they are ready to complete their commercial insurance purchasing online without the aid of an agent or broker. That's according to ...