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Will Britain’s New Financial Regulatory Bodies Curb Excesses?
Britain launched its new system of financial supervision on Tuesday, hoping that two new regulators will succeed where a single one failed in preventing banking crises and protecting consumers from ...
Capital Wave Flows Into Re Market; Reinsurers Forced To Change
Willis Re reported this week that a wave of new capital—amounting to $35 billion—is currently flowing into the global reinsurance market, characterizing the capital market's activity as a "direct ...Greenberg’s View: AIG, Inside vs. Outside Directors and Arthur Levitt
Former AIG CEO and Chairman Maurice "Hank" Greenberg warned against the movement to install more outside directors on corporate boards long before a group of outsiders took over American ...
Services Growth Could Signal Britain Will Escape New Recession
Britain's dominant services industry grew at its strongest pace in five months in January, a small boost to chances the country might narrowly skirt a new recession. Output in the sector, which ...
Direct Writers’ Call Centers Lag Agents in Claims Service Quality: J.D. Powers
More property owners are filing claims with call centers run by direct writing insurers or online but these customers are less satisfied than those who file their claims using agents, new research ...
Possible Infrastructure Disruption, Claims Resulting From Geomagnetic Storms
Solar and geomagnetic activity is expected to peak this year, increasing the possibility of disruption to government and private infrastructure. According to Rade Musulin, COO Aon Benfield Analytics ...
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 ...