Leadership & Strategy
Willis Re Unveils Cybersecurity Risk-Measurement Tool
Reinsurance broker Willis Re on Tuesday launched a tool designed to help insurance companies gauge their portfolios' exposure to cybersecurity risks, the latest effort to develop a growing market ...
Uber Investor Google May Be Ramping Up Its Own Ridesharing Service
Uber faces an ever-growing cast of adversaries that includes dubious regulators, litigious drivers, hostile members of the press, and some well-funded rivals. But the most significant threat to the ...
Allstate Rolls Out Super-Fast, Same-day Claims Payment System
Allstate is launching a new electronic system capable of making same-day claims payments to a customer's bank account – a process enabled by an email address or cell phone. Allstate dubbed the new ...
The Hartford’s Renewed Focus on Property/Casualty is Paying Off
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., the insurer that sold life units to focus on property-casualty coverage, said fourth-quarter profit rose 22 percent as sales climbed at its main unit and ...
ReSource Pro Gains Ground by Offering Outsourcing of a Different Sort
ReSource Pro CEO Dan Epstein believes that property/casualty insurers are ripe for the outsourcing in which his company specializes: business process outsourcing. "There are a whole range of ...
Nationwide’s ‘Dead Boy’ Super Bowl Ad Stirs Controversy
Nationwide Insurance defended its Super Bowl ad featuring a "dead" boy, saying on Monday that it was intended to start a conversation about preventable accidents, not sell insurance. The ad, labeled ...
Are You Leadership Material? ‘Executive Presence’ Defined
Want to be a leader in your field? Your years of professional experience and job prowess prove you've got what it takes. But in order to rocket from middle management to the C-suite, you'll need more ...
Enstar Closes $218M Buy of South Carolina P/C Outfit
Bermuda-based Enstar Group Ltd. has completed its $218 million acquisition of Companion Property and Casualty Insurance Company from Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina. A bank loan facility ...