Leadership & Strategy
Endurance Ups Its Bid For An Unimpressed Aspen
Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. promised it wouldn't give up on a merger with Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd., and so it is trying again with a higher bid. The Bermuda specialty insurance and ...
Managing Executive Stress
The traits of an executive are very recognizable: confident, fearless and courageous. Executives are responsible for making tough decisions, steering organizations through difficult times, and ...
Florida’s Hurricane Cat Bonds Enjoy Robust Boom
In 2008, Florida's government-run property insurer paid Warren Buffett $224 million to agree to buy its debt if a major storm struck. Six hurricane-free years later, the state is turning investors ...
Allied World Gains Australian Beachhead
Switzerland's Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG is continuing its expansion in the Asia Pacific region with the launch of a new office in Australia. Allied World said in a press release ...
Standard & Poor’s Sees a Stable Global Market, Save For Reinsurance
As of mid-2014, worldwide pricing is softening in the reinsurance sector. At the same time, however, conditions have stabilized and even improved for most global insurers, Standard & Poors ...
Industry Prediction: Expect P/C Market Stability Through 2014
The federal terrorism risk insurance backstop, in place in one form or another since 2002, will likely be reauthorized by Congress, and in the absence of a major catastrophe — man-made or otherwise ...
Hacking Threats Make Cyber Experts Darlings of the Corporate World
Some of the largest U.S. companies are looking to hire cybersecurity experts in newly elevated positions and bring technologists on to their boards, a sign that corporate America is increasingly ...
Sunshine State Insurance Co.’s Fate Unclear After M&A Deal Collapses
The future of Florida's Sunshine State Insurance Co. (SSIC) is unclear now that a deal by another insurer to rescue it has fallen through. United Insurance Holdings Corp. (UPC Insurance Co.) ...