Leadership & Strategy
MGAs Can Build Broker Relationships – Even in a Hard Market
How can managing general agents build broker relationships during a hardening market when insurers have much less incentive to provide capacity? After more than 25 years as a broker, Peter Blanc, CEO ...
New Partnerships Target Claims Experience, Climate Resilience and Auto Risk Assessment
One partnership will focus on boosting the claims experience for insurers and policyholders. Another looks to promote climate resilience and target social inequities. A third help insurance companies ...
It May Be Time to Re-Recruit Your Team: Leadership Tips
The talent war is about to get fiercer thanks to The Great Resignation. Millions of U.S. workers have quit their jobs in the last six months, and a recent Gallup survey found that nearly half of ...
Allstate Will Sell Its Chicago-Area HQ in Embrace of Hybrid Work Routines
Allstate Corp. plans to sell its headquarters building, marking the U.S. finance industry's firmest endorsement yet of the desire to offer hybrid work after the pandemic. With many employees choosing ...
Government Can and Should Help Reduce Cybersecurity Risks: ITC 2021 Highlights
It's no secret that cyber insurance rates keep rising into the stratosphere. But the U.S. government can take specific actions to help reduce risk and stabilize the market, a former federal official ...
Nobel Laureate Argues Central Banks Lack Tools to Fight Climate Change
Central banks are at risk of over-promising on how they can respond to the challenges posed by climate change, a Nobel economics laureate whose work questions how well economic models cope with ...
Chubb Buying Cigna’s Asia-Pacific A&H, Life Businesses for $5.75B
In a deal that will expand its Asia book to $7 billion in net premiums, Chubb announced a definitive agreement to acquire some life and non-life insurance companies from Cigna in seven Asia-Pacific ...
At ITC Vegas 2021, Chubb CEO Greenberg Put InsurTechs in Their Place
Many startups in the insurance world have long promised to transform every aspect of the industry they touch. Speaking recently before an audience of InsurTech entrepreneurs, Chubb CEO Evan Greenberg ...