Leadership & Strategy
PLUS Starts New Designation Program for Cyber Liability Professionals
Cyber liability professionals can access a new designation program at the Professional Liability Underwriting Society, or PLUS. The Cyber Professional Liability Practitioner (CPLP) designation builds ...
QOMPLX Eyes Global Growth After Planned Reverse Merger Deal
QOMPLX, an InsurTech focused on cyber security risk analytics, said it will become a public company in a reverse merger agreement and then acquire two other companies. The Virginia-based outfit ...
Allianz, Munich Re Link With Google to Insure Its Cloud Users
Google is teaming up with two global insurers to cover cyber breaches and related risks for businesses that use its cloud services, the first time a major provider has opened up such insurance to its ...
Aon and Praedicat Will Jointly Focus on Product Liability Risks
Aon said it would collaborate with analytics company Praedicat on developing a range of specialist liability reinsurance products and services that address product liability risks including ...
Aviva Plans to Become Net Zero Carbon Emissions Company by 2040
British insurer Aviva plans to become a net zero carbon emissions company by 2040, it said on Monday, claiming this was the most demanding target set by any major insurer worldwide. Following the ...
How Increasing M&As Will Reshape P/C Insurance
At the outset of the coronavirus pandemic last year, some insurance industry analysts predicted that the crisis and its economic ramifications would slow mergers and acquisitions in the P/C market as ...
Observers Give Mixed Reception to Chubb’s New Blink Digital Platform
Chubb is an old school P/C insurer touting its new Blink platform for consumers as an "easy, effortless and affordable" option "for digitally-savvy consumers." Interestingly, many InsurTechs use the ...
Love for ‘Leaders’ Misplaced In Situations Calling for ‘Managers’
Leaders tend to be loved more than managers, reflecting an implicit societal bias that may be tempered by thinking critically about it, new Cornell University-led research suggests. Romanticization ...