Leadership & Strategy
Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon Give Insurers Innovation Inspiration
As insurers seek inspiration to drive innovation, it makes sense to turn to modern-day tech titans to find useful ideas that might be adapted for the insurance industry. Innovation is the lifeblood ...
AIG Shoots for Expansion Now That ‘Too Big To Fail’ Status Is Going Away
Now that American International Group Inc. is no longer too big to fail, it has a goal: Get bigger. The U.S. freed the New York-based insurer from enhanced regulation, removing the scarlet letter it ...
Generali’s German Arm Plans Life Insurance Run-Off in Early 2018
Generali Deutschland has launched the next phase of its program to reorganize in Germany, which is one of Generali's core markets. The program is designed to strengthen and streamline operations, ...
US. Senators Announce Deal on Self-Driving Car Legislation
Two U.S. senators said late on Wednesday that they had reached a bipartisan deal on legislation aimed at easing hurdles to getting self-driving cars to drivers. U.S. Senator John Thune, a Republican ...
Chubb Inks Multiyear Distribution Deal With Asia’s DBS Bank
Chubb inked a new multiyear distribution deal with DBS Bank, a financial giant that will give it even deeper market penetration in Asia. The agreement calls for Chubb to distribute general insurance ...
Berkshire Hathaway’s Gen Re Turns to India for Multiple Insurance Opportunities
General Re, a unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. which won a license to open an Indian office in May, is seeking a larger slice of the world's fastest-growing reinsurance market. The ...
Promoting the Wrong Person Can be Right for Your Company
Consider this: Sometimes it can be in a company's best interest to promote the wrong person for the job. Yes, that sounds counterintuitive, and a new blog posting based on research by Daniel Barron ...
CEO Viewpoint: How Biz Insurers Can Jump on the E-Commerce Bandwagon
It seems like InsurTech has become the term du jour over the last nine months. It is often used to imply destruction, disintermediation, disruption and disaster (the four Ds) for the insurance ...