Features
Visions of Commercial Transportation: The Future of Commercial Auto Insurance Is Here
For several years now, the commercial auto segment has been among the property/casualty insurance industry's worst performing lines. Wounded by a sharp uptick in claims frequency and severity and ...
Risks Hiding in Plain Sight
When an Italian man attended an art exhibit in the Serralves Museum in Portugal last year, he didn't expect to be hospitalized just for trying to view one of the works on display. But that's exactly ...
Different Roads
The March/April 2019 edition of Carrier Management features articles about the two commercial insurance lines at opposite ends of the profitability spectrum. Workers compensation is the most improved ...
How to Build a More Diverse Leadership Pipeline in the Insurance Industry
The value of diversity is well recognized today. Yet study after study finds that the pipeline of women narrows at each successive level of most organizations. While we see milestones in the number ...
Boost’s Maffeo Hacks Through Insurance Industry Glaciers With InsurTech MGA
Alex Maffeo, founder and chief executive officer of InsurTech startup Boost Insurance, didn't dream of working in insurance when he was a kid. He wanted to play shortstop for the Yankees or be the ...
How a Confluence of Generations Is Leading Our Industry Into the Future
The insurance industry has never been more diverse than it is today, and that diversity extends far beyond the ratios of men to women. Four of the six living generations are now laboring side by side ...
Build Relationships With Enthusiasm
Once upon a time, I managed the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) cable network account for a Madison Avenue advertising agency. When I would visit my client in Norfolk, Va., I would be greeted ...
The Art of Magnetic Communication: 10 Secrets of Great Leaders
No one ever became a great leader without first becoming a great communicator. And no one ever became a great leader without attracting followers. We all know that leadership is the art of getting ...