Strategy
Autonomous Vehicles: Major Disrupter Presents Challenges and Opportunities
Since the early 1960s, the insurance industry has been a major force behind the most significant advances in highway and vehicle safety, including electronic stability control requirements, seat belt ...
Embracing Talent in a New Generation
One of the hot topics at recent industry conferences has been the need to attract millennials to the insurance industry. That includes the IICF Women in Insurance Global Conference, where the central ...
RSA Shareholders Brace For Lowball Bid From Possible Suitor Zurich Insurance
Shareholders in British insurer RSA are bracing for a lowball bid from prospective suitor Zurich Insurance, putting one of Europe's largest ever insurance deals in doubt. After flagging its interest ...
Leaders Review Failures, Successes and Joint Innovation Efforts
Failing to innovate is no longer an option in the property/casualty insurance industry, according to leaders who say that a tolerance for ill-timed or less-than-perfect product launches is better ...
P/C Insurers Blocking Their Own Roads to Innovation
Property/casualty insurers face a number of external obstacles on the road to delivering more innovative products and reimagining their operations, but the ones that really get in the way come from ...
Industry ‘Groping in Dark’ to Attract Millennials, Duperreault Says
Boring is not a description of the insurance industry that sits well with Brian Duperreault. But it's one that the majority of millennials use to explain why insurance has little appeal as a career ...
Industry Consolidation: Too Fast for Some
There are many reasonable and compelling factors driving the ongoing consolidation of the property/casualty insurance industry, from a sheer overabundance of capital to an overwhelming need to reduce ...
P/C Insurers Vary Widely in Catastrophe Claims Staff Compensation
Property/casualty insurers vary widely in their approach to compensating claims staff and managers as they respond to catastrophes, according to a new study from Verisk Analytics' Property Claims ...