Leadership & Strategy
Chubb CEO Greenberg Sounds Off on NAFTA, China and ‘America First’
Chubb Chairman and CEO Evan Greenberg voiced dissatisfaction about the "America First" political direction of the United States and how it is causing damage to world trade and politics. "I am ...
WorkFusion Raises $50M; Process Automation Software Can Modernize Insurance Claims
Process automation software company WorkFusion raised a $50 million financing to help expand its global operations. WorkFusion's technology automates high-volume processes by combining artificial ...
The Latest Launches From XL Catlin, W.R. Berkley Corp. and Allied World
XL Catlin beefed up its online underwriting platform for design professional brokers with new bells and whistles. A W.R. Berkley Corp. unit has developed a new travel insurance policy and expanded ...
Broken Promises to Employees Can Make Your Business Suffer
Employers stand to create a chain reaction of problems at their companies by breaking promises made to their employees. Two researchers from the London School of Economics and the Durham University ...
Swiss Re Predicts SofBank Stake in Reinsurer Won’t Exceed 10%
Billionaire Masayoshi Son's SoftBank Group Corp. is likely to take a stake of 10 percent or less in Swiss Re AG as it seeks to gain a foothold in the cash-rich reinsurance industry. The Swiss ...
Predictive Analytics Help Commercial Lines Insurers Boost Profit, Reduce Underwriting Volatility: A.M. Best
The increasing use of predictive analytics among commercial lines insurers has helped improve their bottom lines and led to more balanced underwriting cycles, A.M. Best concluded in a new special ...
MGAs Are Increasingly Taking on Carrier Business Practices
Among the most profound changes in commercial insurance over the past decade has been the growing role of managing general agencies (MGAs) as measured by premium volume and by the growing scope of ...
The Latest Launches From Everest Re and AIG’s Travel Guard
Everest Re Group is now offering a broad cyber insurance policy that provides risk mitigation/remediation services to companies in multiple industries. A division of AIG has launched in Canada a form ...