Leadership & Strategy
The Hartford Employees ‘Mob’ Small Business to Boost Sales, Show Support
Hundreds of employees of The Hartford showed up at local businesses in 14 cities with money to spend, forming "Hart Mobs" in support of small business. By patronizing local businesses in cities ...
United Insurance Seeks Better Spread in Florida by Acquiring Sunshine State Insurance
United Insurance Holdings Corp. (UPC) announced Thursday that the company has entered into a non-binding letter of intent to acquire 100 percent of Sunshine State Insurance Company (SSIC), a Florida ...
Zurich Insurance’s New CFO Makes His Formal Debut, Touting Solid Q1 Results
New Zurich Insurance Group CFO George Quinn is only in his first full month on the job, but he confidently touted a solid 2014 first quarter performance in a pre-filmed video for analysts and the ...
Africa Experiments With Sovereign Risk Pool Insurance Scheme
In the 1980s images of skeletal Ethiopian babies and their parents, dying from hunger during a devastating famine, helped galvanize global humanitarian and financial aid to drought-ravaged African ...
Tower Group Rejects Offer From Eastern European Insurer
Tower Group International's board of directors unanimously rejected a surprise acquisition bid submitted earlier this week from an Eastern European Insurer, choosing instead to focus on an ongoing ...
Allianz To Pimco: Now Is The Time To Prove Yourself
German insurer Allianz has called on its California-based asset manager, Pimco, to prove itself after investors withdrew a further 22 billion euros ($30 billion) in the first quarter, denting group ...
Troubled Tower Ends Relationship with PwC; Fitch Announces Downgrade, Rating Withdrawal
Tower Group International has fired PricewaterhouseCoopers as its accounting firm, six months after announcing it would restate previously filed financial statements for 2011 and 2012 due to ...