Leadership & Strategy
U.S. Carriers Begin Crafting Police Professional Liability Cover
U.S. insurers and brokers are starting to craft professional liability coverage for police officers, spurred on by signs that policymakers in some cities and states want to use a financial stick to ...
How to Redesign the Employee Experience: Leadership Tips
The global COVID-19 pandemic has changed the workplace, redefining what employees need to do their jobs safely and effectively. As business leaders shift their mindset from survival and resilience to ...
The Latest Launches From SSP/Willis Towers Watson, PURE, and Berkshire Hathaway/GUARD
Insurance Software Company SSP joined a Willis Towers Watson program designed to help boost what it can learn from data. Privilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange, or PURE, has launched PURE Gold, a ...
The Big Picture: How COVID Should Change the Industry
Responding to a Carrier Management call for executive viewpoints, industry leaders told us how the pandemic has changed them. In addition, they shared ideas about how the industry should plan for the ...
Zurich Insurance Declines to Renew Cover for Controversial Trans Mountain Oil Pipeline
Insurer Zurich has decided not to renew cover for the Canadian government's Trans Mountain oil pipeline, said a spokeswoman for the project, which is opposed by environmental campaigners and some ...
Overcommunication: A Leadership Lesson From the Crisis
If you asked business leaders at the beginning of March if they thought allowing staff to work from home was an efficient way to run a company, I bet the overwhelming majority would have said no. ...
COVID Challenges: Perspective on P/C Insurance Leadership and Operational Productivity
From a personal perspective, the pandemic crisis has especially highlighted the importance of abiding by a driving purpose and core values. I have tried to function and act by our company's core ...
W.R. Berkley’s CEO: Workers Comp Rates Could Start Climbing in 2021
For W.R. Berkley Corp. and most other workers compensation carriers, rates have declined for some time. That trend could start reversing itself starting in 2021, CEO W. Robert Berkley Jr. predicted ...