Content from Susanne Sclafane
PwC Board Survey: Majority of Large Insurers Have Risk Committees, CROs
Property/casualty insurance company senior executives aren't the only carrier leaders overwhelmed by multiple demands on their time. Members of P/C insurer boards of directors are similarly ...
Customer-Centric Strategies Start With Governance: PwC Report
Becoming a more customer-centric insurer isn't simply a matter of finding the right technology, according to a recent PwC report, which asserts that inadequate governance explains why carriers ...
Insurance CEOs Fearing ‘Uberization’ Eye Cognitive Computing: IBM Survey
The trend of "uberization"—industry disruption caused by an unlikely outside competitor—has become a key concern of executives in and outside the insurance industry, according to a new IBM study ...
What’s Ailing Zurich Insurance?
Change is underway to reshape some ailing General Insurance business at Zurich Insurance Group, according to the new chief executive for the unit, who described a corrective focus on profitability ...
Want Your Work and Life in Balance? Take a Long-Term View, Exec Coach Says
Taking a long-term view of things isn't just good advice for liability insurers writing long-tail casualty business. It also makes sense of property/casualty managers and executives who feel as if ...
‘We Start Businesses Instead of Buying Them,’ Berkley Says in Last Call as CEO
William R. Berkley's last earnings conference call as chief executive officer of the company that bears his name lasted just over 20 minutes, with a lack of questions about a less-eventful quarter ...
TransRe: Where Reinsurance Is Job 1
As a pure reinsurer, TransRe stands apart from hybrids that combine both primary insurance and reinsurance in their operating models. And that's a situation that CEO Michael Sapnar expects to ...
Knowledge Gaps and Convergence
Insurers covered $500 billion in catastrophe losses in the last 10 years. That huge number appears in Swiss Re's recent sigma report, "Underinsurance of Property Risks: Closing the Gap." It's hardly ...