Leadership & Strategy
China’s Ping An Insurance Invests in German Fintech Incubator
Ping An Insurance Group Co., China's biggest insurer by market value, led investors in injecting 41.5 million euros ($47 million) into Germany's Finleap GmbH in its latest round of funding. The ...
Chubb Partners With The Nature Conservancy to Help Protect Miami Coastline
Chubb announced that it is partnering with The Nature Conservancy, the world's largest conservation organization, to work together in Miami to reduce the risk from storm impacts and rising sea levels ...
Liberty Mutual Establishes New U.S. Distribution Model
Liberty Mutual said it is establishing a new distribution model for its U.S. commercial and specialty insurance products, with a goal of improving broker access to the offerings. To accomplish this, ...
Nationwide Plans to Slash More Than 1,000 Jobs
Nationwide intends to eliminate the jobs of about 1,100 employees across the country _ around 3.6 percent of its workforce. The insurance and financial services company says about 80 workers in Des ...
The Latest Launches From Starr and ISO
Starr Insurance Companies is linking up with security firm Rapid7 to provide cyber loss prevention services to some of its customers. ISO came out with a management liability insurance program ...
Swiss Re Backs Cover of U.S. Solar Power Output Risks
A tool designed as an insurance policy for solar-power generation will be used to manage the risk associated with U.S. residential systems for the first time as part of a financing agreement backing ...
InsurTech vs. Incumbents: What’s Really Different About Their Cultures?
Although strategies putting growth before profit instead of profit-first schemes may set InsurTech startups apart from established players in personal and commercial insurance lines, there's less of ...
If You Take Risk Aversion Too Far, You and Your Company Won’t Grow
Executives on the rise are generally risk-averse people. That makes it necessary to fight that tendency if you want to rise through the ranks, according to a new writeup at the KelloggInsight blog. ...