Leadership & Strategy
The Latest Launches From Munich Re, AXA XL and More
Munich Re is debuting cover that insures the performance of batteries used on an industrial scale to help generate energy. AXA XL and InsurTech startup Assurely will collaborate on insurance coverage ...
Humility Helps First-Time Managers Build Stellar Reputations
So you're a first-time manager, an executive on the rise. How do you approach the employees who serve under you? Humility is a better approach than taking on a nascent leadership role with guns ...
How to Build a More Diverse Leadership Pipeline in the Insurance Industry
The value of diversity is well recognized today. Yet study after study finds that the pipeline of women narrows at each successive level of most organizations. While we see milestones in the number ...
ChainThat Will Debut Blockchain-Driven Risk and Capital Exchange in Bermuda
A blockchain-driven risk and capital exchange for the insurance and reinsurance market is set to be launched in Bermuda later this year by ChainThat. The exchange will allow broker, reinsurance and ...
Boost’s Maffeo Hacks Through Insurance Industry Glaciers With InsurTech MGA
Alex Maffeo, founder and chief executive officer of InsurTech startup Boost Insurance, didn't dream of working in insurance when he was a kid. He wanted to play shortstop for the Yankees or be the ...
Shift Technology Raises $60M to Expand Reach of AI Claims Tech
Shift Technology has raised $60 million in new venture financing, money that will help grow the reach of its artificial intelligence and big data technology designed to help carriers manage risk ...
The Latest Launches From Allstate and Travelers
Allstate disclosed that its coverage for Uber drivers is now offered in 11 additional states. Travelers' Canadian arm is launching new services for specialty insurance corporate customers that come ...
Lyft and Uber Build Their Own Captive Insurers In Hawaii
Ride-sharing giants Lyft Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc. seem to have found the same solution for dealing with the risks of managing millions of drivers on the road: Creating their own insurers in ...