Leadership & Strategy
In Hiring, Overlooking Disability in the Pursuit of Diversity Creates Risks
Caroline Ashrafi, who built a successful career as a manager at KPMG in Britain while privately struggling with mental health problems, recalls being sent on a management training course on how to ...
UPC to Take Over Policies of Florida’s Insolvent Sunshine State
Florida regulators have taken over an insolvent domestic residential property insurer, but a deal is in the works for another private company to assume the insurer's 37,000 policies. A Leon County ...
Aon Sees a Steady D&O Market Despite Q1 Price Dips
Directors and officers liability insurance pricing dropped nearly 5 percent during the 2014 first quarter compared to the same period a year ago, Aon's Financial Services Group concluded in a new ...
Citing Success, Farmers Pulls Climate Change Lawsuit
Farmers Insurance Group, which filed nine class actions in May against nearly 200 communities in the Chicago area, is withdrawing its lawsuit. The suit accused the Illinois municipalities of failing ...
U.S. Treasury Vet is AIA’s New Federal Affairs Chief Counsel
A veteran of the U.S. Department of Treasury will be the American Insurance Association's new chief counsel for federal affairs. The AIA disclosed this week that Amanda Greenwold Wise has been named ...
Reinsurers Are Ripe For M&A: Nomura
The reinsurance market is ripe for consolidation because the sector continues to soften, with alternative capacity in at least one area set to double over the next few years, a Nomura Equity Research ...
This Week’s Hottest Ticket: Lunch With Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett's annual charity auction drew an offer of more than $355,000 as bidders vie for a chance to have lunch and a conversation with the billionaire investor. The event kicked off yesterday ...
Endurance CEO Charman Miffed at Aspen’s M&A Rebuffs
During an Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. investor call on June 2, one thing became perfectly clear. John Charman, the company's chairman and CEO, is miffed at the board and executive leadership of ...