Content from Susanne Sclafane
How Many CEOs Tweet Anyway?
During a session of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society D&O Symposium earlier this year, described in a feature article on carriermanagment.com, panelists debated the risks of ...
Should Tweeting CEOs Be Muzzled or Glorified?
If the CEO of a public company posts good news about the company's booming business on Facebook, does that same CEO have an obligation to post information about a subsequent business decline? The ...
TRIA Won’t Be Extended, P/C Carrier CEOs Say
Chief executive officers of property/casualty insurance carriers said their companies will still stand ready to provide terrorism coverage when—not if—the Terror Risk Insurance Act expires ...
Broker Exec Sees Price Shoppers Emerging In Bifurcated Casualty Market
The reasoning that carrier executives advance for increased prices of casualty insurance—starting with low interest rates and ending with the need for underwriting profit—is wearing thin on some ...
The Underwriting-Claims ‘Disconnect’ in Casualty Insurance: An ERM Issue?
There are good business reasons why claims and underwriting professionals of casualty insurance carriers don't talk to each other about claim denials, underwriting executives said last week, with one ...
P/C Carrier 2012 M&A Deals Nosedive: Conning
Amounting to just $4.7 billion in aggregate deal value, 46 merger and acquisition transactions announced in the property/casualty insurance sector in 2012 were near record low levels, according to ...
17 P/C Insolvencies, Only One Cat-Driven In 2012: A.M. Best
Only one of 17 property/casualty insurance carriers that became financially impaired in 2012 suffered its impairment as a result of catastrophe losses, according to a recent study by A.M. Best. ...
Too Much Analysis Primes Whistleblower Suits: Lawyer
If your company uses a detailed analytical process to arrive at projections of growth or earnings, that process may make you particularly vulnerable to shareholder suits when forecasts don't pan out, ...