Leadership & Strategy
The Aftershocks of the Guy Carpenter-JLT Re Alignment
Now that the dust has settled following the historic merger of giant broker Marsh and Jardine Lloyd Thompson, the transaction's impact on the two firms' reinsurance broking units, Guy Carpenter and ...
PartnerRe Getting New CFO, First-Ever Chief Operations Officer
Some executive leadership changes are coming to global reinsurer PartnerRe. Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Mario Bonaccorso plans to retire on March 31, 2020 to pursue a new ...
For carriers and MGAs, cloud-hosted insurance platforms can reduce IT overhead, strengthen business continuity, improve security, and make scaling claims...
Perfection Is Overrated, and Learn How to Delegate for Once
Executives, just like anyone else, can feel overwhelmed. They can reverse this, in part, by challenging their perfectionism and learning how to delegate. A recent article posted at Harvard Business ...
Cambridge Mobile Telematics and Investor SoftBank See $$$ in Autonomous Vehicles
As of 2018, Cambridge Mobile Telematics was in a sweet spot. The Massachusetts-based company launched in 2010 was independent and had become profitable. Its technology used by insurers and others to ...
Travelers Joins Two Groups Focused on Advancing Automated Vehicle, Driver Assistance Tech
The Travelers Companies, Inc. said it has joined two groups focused on advancing research and public information about automated vehicle and driver assistance technologies. They are the Advanced ...
Customer Focus Is Key Ingredient for Future InsurTech Users
In her 1969 hit song "Both Sides Now," singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell looked at clouds and other metaphors of life both optimistically and pessimistically—and she felt uncertain about the future. ...
A Trailblazer in the Lloyd’s Marketplace Looks Back and Ahead
It took enormous courage to walk into Lloyd's for the first time and into the underwriting room—also known as "The Room." I was a very junior broker with absolutely no experience, tasked with ...
AAIS Working Groups Seek to Broaden Industry Use of Blockchain Platform
The American Association of Insurance Services is trying expand the use of its blockchain platform across different segments of the property-casualty insurance industry. AAIS, a non-profit insurance ...