Leadership & Strategy
Smaller Companies Not Embracing Cyber Risk Insurance: Treasury Dept.’s Raskin
While the overall cyber risk insurance market is growing tremendously, larger corporate clients have driven much of the expansion. Smaller companies, on the other hand, have not followed suit, Deputy ...
The Man Who Brought Boat Insurance to Warren Buffett Has Died
Richard Schwartz, the lawyer who founded a boat insurance and towing operation and then sold it to Warren Buffett, has died. He was 85. Schwartz died on Feb. 11 after a short illness, according to ...
Insurers Risk Falling Behind in Financial Sector Technology Race
At a time the financial sector is racing to embrace digital technology to boost sales and drive profits, the traditionally staid insurance industry is in danger of falling behind. Some insurers are ...
AIG CFO David Herzog: Congress Was ‘Wise’ to Renew TRIA
The property/casualty insurance industry was without a federal terrorism reinsurance program for about two weeks, between its expiration on Dec. 31, and long-awaited Congressional action to renew it ...
AIG Under New CEO Hancock Reports a Mixed Q4
Insurer American International Group Inc reported lower-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday, hurt by the performance in its corporate category. AIG also declared a dividend of $0.125 ...
Amica Mutual CEO: 2014 Was When ‘Everything Came Together’
Amica Mutual Insurance Co. boosted its net income, added 46,000 more policies and improved its combined ratio in 2014, the insurer disclosed this week. "It was a year everything came together," Amica ...
Obama Plan to Create Anti-Hacker Agency May Worsen Bureaucracy
President Barack Obama's plan to create a new agency to combat hackers may improve information sharing between government and industry, although it adds to a security bureaucracy that some have ...RenRe Hopes to Close $1.9B Platinum Acquisition on March 2
RenaissanceRe Holdings expects to close its $1.9 billion cash-stock acquisition of Platinum Underwritings Holdings on March 2, assuming an upcoming shareholder vote goes its way. The Bermuda-based ...