Leadership & Strategy
Insurance Salesman By Choice: PHLY’s Robert O’Leary
For Robert O'Leary, the new CEO of Philadelphia Insurance Company, the days when he peeled himself out of the driver's seat of an unairconditioned car to sell casualty insurance policies around ...
How Brains Of Effective Leaders Are Wired
Effective leaders' brains may be physically "wired" to lead, offering the promise of more precise identification and training, according to studies of U.S. Army officers published by the American ...A.M. Best Affirms Meadowbrook Ratings, But Outlook Negative
On Friday, A.M. Best Co. announced that the rating agency removed the "under review" status of "A-minus" financial strength ratings for Meadowbrook Insurance Group and its subsidiaries. The status of ...
Upcoming Cat Model Change, Capital Markets Pressuring Prop-Cat Rates, Execs Say
As first-quarter earnings reports started trickling in from property/casualty insurers and reinsurers carriers last week, two executives confirmed that property-catastrophe pricing is coming under ...
Back-To-Back Drought Years Statistically Likely, Platinum CEO Says
When Platinum Underwriters Holdings, Ltd. reported a 6.2 percent drop in first-quarter net premiums last week, CEO Michael Price attributed a small part of the drop to an intentional cut in the ...
Breaking Convention
Did the father sit in candlelight and silence? Or did Jean rant and sob? Did he blame himself or his son …after all he had done for him? We shall never know how Monsieur Poquelin greeted abject ...S&P: Bermuda Outlook Revision ‘No Impact’ on Bermuda Reinsurer Ratings
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services in a report titled "The Recent Outlook Revision On Bermuda Does Not Affect Bermudian (Re)Insurers", said that "despite the recent outlook revision on the ...PartnerRe Announces More Internal Restructuring; 140 Positions Cut
On Wednesday, PartnerRe Ltd. announced the restructuring of its business support operations into a single integrated worldwide support platform. The reinsurer said the new organizational structure ...