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What Makes a Successful P/C Carrier CIO—and How to Know If You Have One
Triumphant Mutual and Victorious Insurance Co. seem like two peas in a pod. They're similarly sized property/casualty insurers that write personal lines and small-business insurance. But look closer. ...
Judge Rakoff Wants Someone to Pay For the Financial Meltdown
At a meeting of New York City securities lawyers last week, Jed Rakoff did what he does best: challenge Establishment Thinking. "While the economy has slowly improved, there are still millions of ...
Marsh Urges Energy Insurance Market to Rethink Cyber Clauses
There have been many instances in the past where the property insurance market has responded to events that have contributed significant losses by seeking broad exclusionary language to prevent ...
Bring on the Competitors, Reinsurance Brokers Say
If you ask Frank Harrison, chief executive officer of New York-based reinsurance intermediary Holborn Corp., whether he worries about competitors coming up behind his firm, you'll hear an unusual ...
PLUS Conference: Albright, Cohen on Global Risk, Governance and Hypocrisy
America's European allies are being hypocritical in their complaints about the U.S. spying on them because they all have their own surveillance programs, according to two former top officials in the ...
If It Gambles Like a Bank, Regulate It Like a Bank: Bloomberg View
Five years after a crisis that almost took down the world economy, regulators are still groping for a way to address one of the global financial system's most obvious weaknesses: the trillions of ...
Wrongful Incarceration Suits Surge Giving Rise To Insurance Coverage Trigger Issues
On Dec. 17, 1990, 17-year-old Jeffrey Deskovic was convicted by a Westchester County, N.Y., jury of the rape and murder of a 15-year-old high school classmate. Deskovic was sentenced to 15 years to ...
Q&A: Why Carrier Product Technology is an Indicator of Organizational Culture, Priorities
The perception that the insurance industry does not embrace or utilize technology as efficiently as it could is simply not true, says Craig Beattie, senior analyst for UK-based research company ...