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Who Will Be the Next Uncarrier?
As insurance carriers struggle to set themselves apart from one another, they might want to seek inspiration from a different type of carrier—the wireless kind. In late 2012, wireless carrier ...
What’s in a Name? The Importance of Reputation Management
"Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon," Mark Twain once said. Reputation is as important today as it was in Twain's day, but perhaps not necessarily as unassailable. ...
Five Ways to Turn Top Performers Into Leaders
You know your company's top performers. And of that group, you probably have a pretty good idea which workers have leadership potential. But how can you help those top performers improve their ...
Earthquakes for CEOs: Understanding the Most Recent USGS Report
Every six years the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) produces an updated set of seismic hazard maps for the United States. These National Hazard Maps show the estimated probabilities of different levels ...
Executive View: Underwriting Tech Drives Service for Agents, Customers
While there are many good reasons to invest in underwriting technology, for Stonetrust Commercial Insurance Company there is really just one primary driver behind everything that we do and that's ...
How to Thrive in the New Age of Underwriting
We are in the midst of a new age of underwriting—an age driven by technology. And the technology-driven era is not only changing the way underwriters work, but it is also transforming the ...
What Investor Activism Means for Insurers—Those Under Attack and Those That Aren’t
Carl Icahn's demands for American International Group to split into three different companies may seem over the top to some. More importantly for the P/C market at large, however, is that the hedge ...
Welcome to the Future
Some observers have called 2015 "the year the future arrived" for the insurance industry. After close to a decade discussing the potential disruptive effects of big data, wearables, the Internet of ...