Strategy
Allstate Will Unload Most of Illinois Campus for $232M
The Allstate Corp. announced it has reached an agreement to sell the property making up the majority of its campus in Northbrook, Illinois, to Dermody Properties for approximately $232 million. The ...
Gamified Underwriting: How Hiscox Is Transforming Training With an ‘Underwriter Simulator’
Many business sectors are grappling with growth targets and the need to get the most out of highly skilled employees, and this is especially the case in sectors like financial services, where the ...
InsurTech Decision Point: Shell Company or De Novo Carrier?
Dealing in the world of venture capitalists doesn't naturally prepare InsurTech leaders for the challenge of dealing with insurance regulators, an InsurTech executive said recently, explaining one of ...
Continuing to Build: Construction-Focused InsurTech Shepherd
Armed with $6.2 million in seed funding and a technology platform that simplifies the insurance submission process for construction brokers and middle-market commercial contractor clients, InsurTech ...
Building Insurance for the Companies Building the Future
Back in 2015, after working more than 15 years on the underwriting side of the property/casualty insurance business, Chad Nitschke started to become frustrated with the lack of change in the ...
Rebuilding Construction Insurance
At the end of an hour-long interview, the chief executive officer of an InsurTech focused on liability coverage for middle-market commercial construction contractors gave an unusual answer to a ...
Artful Mosaic Creates Global Agility for Specialty Startup
Mosaic Insurance, the Bermuda-headquartered startup and Lloyd's specialty insurer, operates with a unique structural twist. Its hybrid model has the flexibility of a managing general agent (MGA), the ...
Former Lloyd’s CEO Beale Joins Willis Towers Watson Board as Part of Activist-Spurred Revamp
Willis Towers Watson PLC , which has been under pressure from activist investor Elliott Management, appointed four new directors on Thursday as it looks to turn around its business following a ...