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Dark Clouds Forming; Data Security Hurricanes Ahead For Cyber Insurers
Data security and privacy (cyber liability) insurance has become one of the hottest topics for the insurance industry and an area of growth for an industry emerging from a soft market. While data and ...
IPO-Seeking China Companies Pay More to Avoid Boards Going Naked
Stephen Markscheid holds one of the riskiest jobs in the world—or so say directors and officers liability insurers. The 59-year-old former banker, a Mandarin-speaking American, sits on the boards ...
It’s Not About AIG, Says Berkshire’s Peter Eastwood
When a veteran of CNA joined Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance to lead the new venture's professional liability division last week, the news did not receive the press that the followed the first ...
P/C Carriers Lag Life Insurers, Brokers on Gender Diversity
Commercial property/casualty insurance carriers and reinsurers have more work to do than life and personal lines carriers or brokers when it comes to bringing more women into their leadership ranks, ...
Capital Markets Poised To Grow Even Bigger In Cat Re Space
The participation of the capital markets in the property-catastrophe reinsurance industry is poised to explode beyond one-third of the total limits in the market, an industry executive said recently. ...
Property Insurance Market Eyes New Entrants—From China, Berkshire
Industry executives speaking at an insurance conference recently discussed the potential market impact of the newest entrants to the U.S. property insurance market, with Chinese companies getting as ...
Encryption: What’s The Big Secret?
So your organization sells a data breach or cyber liability insurance product that covers notification costs and ancillary services in the event your insured has a data breach and their customer's ...
In Spite Of Risks, Turkey Attracts Carriers
With a skilled workforce, dynamic private sector, growing middle class, nascent democratic government, and strategic geographic position, Turkey represents a tantalizing opportunity for ...