Leadership & Strategy
The New Insurance Marketing Playground
When Marissa Buckley asked her focus group their general thoughts regarding shopping for homeowners insurance, the responses were brutally honest. "I'd rather stick a needle in my eye" and "I'd ...
For CNA, Bad Weather and Division Sale Hamper Q1 Numbers
The biggest hit to CNA's 2014 first-quarter net income comes from short-term costs relating to the planned sale of its Continental Assurance Co. life and group insurance business to Wilton Re ...Hartford Unloads Japan Operations for $895M
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. agreed to sell its Japanese operation to Orix Corp. as Chief Executive Officer Liam McGee narrows the U.S. insurer's focus. Orix will pay about $895 million for ...
Surge of Storms and Fires Stunts Chubb’s Q1 Net Income
The Chubb Corporation endured a big hit to its 2014 first-quarter income, thanks to harsher-than-expected winter weather in the United States, plus a surge in homeowner fire and flood-related losses. ...
Cincinnati Financial’s Earnings Drop Softened By Investment Income
Cincinnati Financial confronted a drop in net income for its fiscal 2014 first quarter due, in part to higher catastrophe losses, and non-catastrophe losses driven by severe winter weather. But the ...
Q1 Return for ‘Independent’ Aspen Nears 15%; Full-Year Target 10%
Aspen Insurance Holdings reported an annualized operating return-on-equity of 14.8 percent for the first quarter on Thursday, also giving double-digit forecasts for future years—targets which its ...
Zurich Gives $3M Grant to Nonprofit Helping with Disaster Recovery
On Wednesday, Zurich Insurance Group announced that its Z Zurich Foundation is giving a $3 million grant to St. Bernard Project (SBP), a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping disaster-impacted ...
W.R. Berkley Excels in Q1 Save for Global Re Numbers
For W.R. Berkley Corp., sobering results from its global reinsurance division were a blemish on an otherwise successful 2014 first quarter, during which the Greenwich, Conn.-based company enjoyed ...