Leadership & Strategy
Leadership Conundrum: Can Corporate Culture Survive Remote Work Models?
As the world enters the third year of the pandemic, employees in the insurance industry expect to maintain workplace flexibility—a hybrid model—even after COVID-19 infection rates dwindle to safe ...
AIG Commits to Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Underwriting, Investment by 2050
American International Group said it is committed to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across its global underwriting and investment portfolios by 2050. AIG already made a commitment last ...
‘Delay Means Death’ – UN Report Warns Window for Climate Action Is Rapidly Closing
Climate change is already disrupting billions of lives and humanity is not doing enough to limit the suffering, the United Nations climate science panel warned in a major report on Monday. Noting ...
ESG Litigation Over Social Issues Is Poised to Rise
Climate-related lawsuits like those filed against energy companies Exxon Mobil Corp., Shell Plc and PG&E Corp. have dominated ESG litigation in recent years. But there are signs an increase in ...
Small Businesses and Cyber Attacks: It’s Not a Matter of If, But When
According to the 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report from Verizon, 61 percent of all small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have reported at least one cyber attack during the previous year. ...
Investment Gains Float Weight of $5.6B Underwriting Loss for U.S. P/C Insurers in Nine Months 2021
An increase in capital gains on investments is largely credited with lifting the after-tax net income of private U.S. property/casualty insurers to $42.1 billion over nine months in 2021 compared to ...
How Downtime Insurance Became a Thing
A single hour of downtime from mission-critical, third-party IT service providers can cost small and medium-sized enterprises tens of thousands of dollars, but traditional insurance often does not ...
Zurich Insurance Reports 35% Increase in 2021 Operating Profit to $5.7B
Zurich Insurance expects continued revenue and profit growth in the next two years, its chief financial officer said on Thursday, after the Swiss insurer reported its biggest annual profit since the ...