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Culture Clash: Marrying Traditional Insurance Businesses With Startup Benefits
Apparently, 50 is the new 30 and "Orange is the New Black." Reinvention is the word of the day, and even the traditional insurance industry is getting in on the act. Shopping and purchasing ...
Top 25 Non-Life Reinsurers: Swiss Re Leads, Berkshire Drops in A.M. Best’s 2016 Ranking
Swiss Re landed on top of a ranking of global non-life reinsurers, just edging out Munich Re by a few hundred million dollars in premium on a list extracted from an A.M. Best analysis. The rating ...
Supply Chain Disruptions
Certain natural catastrophes, such as the 2010 floods in Thailand and the 2011 Tohoku and 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes in Japan, have served as stark reminders that loss of life, property damage and ...
Reinsurers Back in Business, Execs Say—With Some Reservations
Reinsurers are officially back in business as insurance companies returned as buyers this year. But a trend exemplified by Chubb's venture with BlackRock could dampen any potential surge in demand, ...
New Technologies: A Double-Edged Sword for Insurance Companies
The insurance industry is on the horns of a dilemma: how to use new technologies to improve their operations and how to insure the risks these new technologies present to their customers. Situation ...
Staying Ahead of Workplace Violence by Identifying Behaviors of Concern
In most incidents involving violence in the workplace, there are warning signs that precede an event, according to Jim Satterfield, president, COO and founder of crisis coaching firm Firestorm. ...
How Risk Management Can Fuel Innovation
We generally do not tend to think of innovation and risk management as compatible themes. Innovation conjures up images of bold new ideas, thinking outside the box, disrupting established ways of ...
Europe Flood Risk: A New Growth Opportunity for the Industry
Flood events are not restricted by geopolitical borders. In a landmass with multiple adjacent countries such as Europe, flood risk can have a wide-reaching impact on both business and ...