Leadership & Strategy
Former Liberty Actuary Talks ‘Openly’ About Launching Upmarket HO Insurer
Keep an eye out for Openly, a new digitally-sophisticated upmarket homeowners insurer catering to independent agents. According to Ty Harris, founder and CEO, Openly will launch in early 2019 in a ...
A Different World for Underwriters: Profits Shift to Lines That Were Loss Leaders
For property/casualty underwriters, today's operating environment may seems like an insurance-themed episode of The Twilight Zone, with lines they counted on for profits turning into problems and ...
For years, the insurance industry has been working to reduce the friction that slows down underwriting, claims, and servicing. Now,...
GM Hits Speed Bumps on $5B Road to Driverless Cars by 2019: Reuters
It's one of the biggest bets going in the world of cars. Since May, General Motors Co. and its Cruise self-driving car unit have landed $5 billion in investment commitments from Japan's SoftBank ...
Survey Reveals U.S. Workplaces Divided Over Politics
Last week, Ranstad US, a human resources services firm, released a survey of U.S. workers revealing that more than half have seen and heard "heated political discussions" taking place at work, ...
Liberty Mutual’s Safeco to Take EMC’s Agency Personal Lines Biz
With an intention to focus on commercial, reinsurance and life insurance business going forward, EMC Insurance Companies announced an agreement with Safeco Insurance related to its existing personal ...
Startup vs. Incumbent: The Battle Rages as InsurTechs Grow Fast But Fail to Show Profits
How far will they climb? How far can they fall? Will innovative InsurTech startups rocket past established players? Those may be some of the unspoken questions beneath a series of articles written by ...
The Value of Innovation: A Preview of CM’s Nov/Dec Magazine
"You don't have to be the CEO and get invited to deliver keynote speeches in order to influence the way an industry thinks." Adrian Jones, deputy CEO of SCOR P&C Partners and one of the guest ...
Changing the Conversation About InsurTech—With Numbers
Although the term InsurTech (or insuretech) has been part of the property/casualty insurance industry's lexicon for at least two years, stories about the technology-based insurance startups were ...