Leadership & Strategy
Zurich’s Cover-More Accelerates Latin America Travel Insurance Expansion
Zurich Insurance Group is doubling down on plans to expand throughout Latin America. Weeks after agreeing to pay $409 million for the Latin American operations of Australian insurer QBE, the Swiss ...
The Latest Launches From Hiscox and Willis Towers Watson
Hiscox said it has added new coverage options to its insurance policy for U.S. businesses in the mental health industry. Willis Towers Watson developed a new product that provides finance and risk ...
Listening to the Market: Insurance Products That Fit Today’s Customer Needs and Demands
Presented by Majesco
The case for innovative insurance products How many cell phones have you owned? Computers? Cars? Appliances? Televisions? Do you still...
Specialty, Niche Business Lines Are 2018’s Insurance M&A Targets: Conning
Targeted P/C insurance mergers and acquisitions should continue in 2018 after they slowed down to a trickle last year, Conning said in a new report. The predicted M&A behavior for the rest of ...
Blackstone Eyes Insurance With Expansion Into Portfolio Risk Analytics
Blackstone Group LP has bigger plans for insurance companies than just managing their money. The world's largest private equity firm is expanding into a lucrative business dominated by BlackRock ...
A Phone Call From AIG’s Duperreault; A Deal 72 Days Later
It started with a phone call—from American International Group's Brian Duperreault to Validus Holdings' leader Ed Noonan. Roughly two-and-a-half months later, including time for just over one month ...
Don’t Get Lost in the Noise: A Guide to Self-Leadership
Leadership is about having a vision and inspiring others. This has been and will always be true, but modern leaders and high achievers face the challenge of processing information faster than ever ...
ICW Group Expands Workers Comp Underwriting Operations Into 5 New States
ICW Group Insurance Companies plans to start writing workers compensation in five new states: Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota and Missouri. ICW, a group of property/casualty carriers based in San ...
Zurich’s Fernandez: Leading by Connecting People and Ideas
When Carrier Management asked Zurich's chief underwriting officer in North America to describe his leadership style, he relied on the input of his team to answer the question. "We do upward feedback ...