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Hurricane Katrina’s Legacy
Hurricane Katrina was a deadly storm that caused a large loss to the insurance industry—but not so large that it shouldn't have been anticipated by the catastrophe models. In the months after this ...
Embracing Talent in a New Generation
One of the hot topics at recent industry conferences has been the need to attract millennials to the insurance industry. That includes the IICF Women in Insurance Global Conference, where the central ...
Leaders Review Failures, Successes and Joint Innovation Efforts
Failing to innovate is no longer an option in the property/casualty insurance industry, according to leaders who say that a tolerance for ill-timed or less-than-perfect product launches is better ...
How Progressive, Assurant and Others Innovated Their Innovation Processes
While culture is the central ingredient in the innovation recipes of most property/casualty insurers, strategy games and idea labs are among the more novel approaches P/C leaders describe when asked ...
P/C Insurers Blocking Their Own Roads to Innovation
Property/casualty insurers face a number of external obstacles on the road to delivering more innovative products and reimagining their operations, but the ones that really get in the way come from ...
Industry ‘Groping in Dark’ to Attract Millennials, Duperreault Says
Boring is not a description of the insurance industry that sits well with Brian Duperreault. But it's one that the majority of millennials use to explain why insurance has little appeal as a career ...
Industry Consolidation: Too Fast for Some
There are many reasonable and compelling factors driving the ongoing consolidation of the property/casualty insurance industry, from a sheer overabundance of capital to an overwhelming need to reduce ...
Growing for the Future: Insurers Describe Their Leadership Development Programs
Today's executive leadership development programs are morphing from training at the senior level to cultivating the perfect dream team of executive leaders. Insurers now are tapping into the overall ...