Leadership & Strategy
Lloyd’s Rolls Out Specialist Underwriting Platform in Dubai
Lloyd's has opened a new specialist underwriting platform in Dubai to provide tailored risk products across the Middle East. This brings the number of Lloyd's businesses trading in the Dubai ...
P/C M&A Worth More Now and Expanding in Scope: Deloitte and Assured Research
M&A activity in the property/casualty industry is increasing in deal value and will likely expand from reinsurers to primary carriers, according to two new industry reports. Deloitte said that ...
HCC Specialty Forms Strategic Alliance With Weather Analytics
Specialty insurance underwriter HCC Specialty has formed a new strategic alliance with Maryland-based Weather Analytics, an innovative provider of precision climate and weather data and analytics. ...
Successor Spotlight: Gross Takes the Helm at SECURA
Sometime after John Bykowski decided he would step down from the CEO role at SECURA Insurance, with a retirement date set for mid-2014, David Gross, the senior vice president of underwriting ...
Written CEO Succession Plans Lacking Among P/C Insurers: Research
More than half of property/casualty insurers do not have written CEO succession plans in place, and for nearly three-quarters, there is no board committee to identify desired skills for the next top ...
AIG Drawn to Indonesia Shariah Insurance Growth
Indonesia's Islamic insurance industry is expanding three times as fast as Malaysia's, prompting American International Group Inc. and Sun Life Financial Inc. to seek a broader presence in the ...
RBC is Reviewing Its ‘Volatile’ Property/Casualty Insurance Business
Royal Bank of Canada is reviewing its domestic property and casualty insurance business, Chief Executive Officer David McKay said, citing difficulties caused by rules that ban banks from selling ...
Executives On The Move at Progressive, Hamilton, QBE and Arbella
We have a number of executive changes and board appointments to tell you about at Progressive, Hamilton Insurance Group, QBE North America and Arbella Insurance Group. Progressive said it has made a ...