Content from Susanne Sclafane
Making Connections
"All Black folks have a drawer." The comment may have gone unnoticed at an insurance gathering last year, when Sylvia Alston, managing partner of Momentum Risk Partners, tossed it out quietly as she ...
P/C Carrier Job Tally Down 14K So Far in 2021
Unemployment levels increased across the insurance industry in the first half of 2021, with property/casualty insurance carrier employment figures revealing a drop of 14,000 jobs. Greg Jacobson, ...
Who Do You Trust? When Behavioral Science Fails
Late last week, I was reviewing my Twitter feed and came across a tweet that made no sense to me. While it's a common occurrence for me to be baffled by Twitter exchanges, this particular tweet ...
A Different View of Insurance: What Tech Talent Is Saying
According to a former Microsoft engineer, young job candidates with technology backgrounds are not enamored with the idea of joining the insurance industry. Tammarrian Rogers, a software engineering ...
What It’s Like to Work for an InsurTech
Personal levels of risk tolerance and potential development opportunities are among the factors that job seekers weigh as they consider whether to work at traditional property/casualty carriers or ...
Realizing the Promise: Matteo Carbone Presents IoT Use Cases
When I was editing the last of a special set of articles in a section of Carrier Management's third-quarter 2021 magazine, I struggled a bit with an opening sentence in one of the draft versions. ...
Is a Safer World Possible?
Back in 2011, the publishing company I used to work for hired a new editor. He was the recipient of multiple awards for outstanding journalism, but insurance was a totally new gig for him. As a ...
Are InsurTechs Losing the Talent War? It’s Debatable
A group of actuaries recently polled about whether people working for InsurTech startups were more talented than those working at incumbent carriers assessed them as just about the same. The true ...