Content from Susanne Sclafane
The Value of Innovation: A Preview of CM’s Nov/Dec Magazine
"You don't have to be the CEO and get invited to deliver keynote speeches in order to influence the way an industry thinks." Adrian Jones, deputy CEO of SCOR P&C Partners and one of the guest ...
Changing the Conversation About InsurTech—With Numbers
Although the term InsurTech (or insuretech) has been part of the property/casualty insurance industry's lexicon for at least two years, stories about the technology-based insurance startups were ...
Inconceivable! ‘You Keep Using That Word’
Beginning their third article in a series examining the statutory financial results of InsurTech carriers Lemonade, Root and Metromile, authors Matteo Carbone and Adrian Jones make reference to the ...
Who’s Next? The Value of MGAs vs. Carriers
With Next Insurance making a decision convert from a digital managing general agency for small and medium-sized businesses to a licensed insurance carrier in May, there isn't much to report from the ...
Editor’s Letter: Reflections on the Year Without a Summer
It wasn't until mid-July this year that I had ever heard the term "lava bomb" or thought about the prospect of a Category 6 hurricane. But both were in the news around the time I read about another ...
Berkley Stresses Consistent Values; Cultures Can Vary
When W.R. Berkley Corp. announced the launch of Berkley Cyber Risk Solutions in late 2016, it was almost two decades after the first cyber insurance policy was written. But there are good reasons the ...
‘All Options’ Still On The Table; Some Lloyd’s Biz Will Go: Aspen CEO
The chief executive of Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited described business changes to Aspen's Lloyd's insurance book last week, while neither unequivocally confirming or denying rumors that a deal to ...
Reinsurance a Train Wreck; Brokers and Carriers Need to Bring Value Together, Berkley Says
W. Robert Berkley, Jr., the CEO of W.R. Berkley Corp., is not one to mince words about perceived missteps in the property/casualty insurance industry. A recent assessment of the P/C reinsurance ...