Leadership & Strategy
The Harsh Truth: Culture and Talent in Changed Times
Let's declare it: The insurance workplace has been upended, changed forever, and there is no going back. How and where we work now, and with whom, is our new reality. That is a strong statement for ...
AM Best Answers Questions as DUAE; MGA Assessments Go Live
It is not a credit rating. It will not impact an insurer's financial strength rating. Those were two of the answers that AM Best analysts delivered yesterday in various presentations about the rating ...Duck Creek Invites Entries to First Ecosystem ‘Hatch-a-thon’
Duck Creek Technologies is calling for partners and customers to enter the company's first ecosystem hack-a-thon, aptly named "Duck Creek Hatch-a-thon." The event will occur during the company's user ...
Triple-I Partners With HBCU IMPACT to Recruit Black Talent Into Industry
The Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I) and the HBCU IMPACT Initiative have partnered for a career-building campaign aimed at recruiting students at historically Black colleges and ...
The Bottom Line: The Early Read on 2021 P/C Earnings
For publicly traded commercial insurers and reinsurers that reported 2021 earnings in January 2022, net income soared nearly 40 percent, with double-digit premium growth and higher levels of ...
RenRe: Absorbing Over $1B in Weather Cats
Early last year, the leader of RenaissanceRe predicted that his company would put $1 billion more net written premium on the books in 2021 than it did in 2020. RenRe's President and CEO Kevin ...
AXIS Capital 2021: A Year of Repositioning
The word of the hour was "repositioning" during the earnings conference call for AXIS Capital last week, with the company reporting its bottom line in the black in 2021, following a net loss in 2020. ...
RLI: 26 Straight Years of Underwriting Profit
RLI's 2021 fourth-quarter represented Chairman Jon Michael's last quarter at the helm of the specialty insurer as chief executive officer. Craig Kliethermes, who took the reins as president and CEO ...