Strategy
AXIS Enacts Policy to Ensure Diverse Supplier Networks for Its Operations
AXIS Capital Holdings is enacting a policy designed to ensure a more diverse base for its supplier networks. The Bermuda-based specialty insurer and reinsurer said its new Supplier Diversity Policy ...
Liberty Mutual Is Shifting 2,200 Exclusive Agents to Its New Digital Agency
Liberty Mutual Insurance, the nation's sixth-largest personal lines property/casualty insurer, is planning to transition its more than 2,200 exclusive insurance agents in 200 offices across the ...
Arch Rebrands New Purchase Watford Re as Somers Re, Implements New Reinsurance Strategy
Arch Capital Group Ltd., alongside private equity partners Warburg Pincus and Kelso & Co., announced that Watford Holdings Ltd. and Watford Re Ltd. have been renamed Somers Group Holdings Ltd. ...
ITC Reporter’s Notebook: How Next, Root and Swiss Re Are ‘Adapting’ and Innovating
Over the course of the last six years, Next Insurance has adapted its business model, its distribution method, and its product offerings. Coming up next, the InsurTech aims to offer "adaptive ...
Carriers Moving Toward Independent Models Will Need to Provide Support to Reap Benefits
The property/casualty insurance market is seeing its biggest shake-ups in recent memory. New players, shifting customer expectations, consolidation and new operational models have all hit the market ...
U.S. Insurers Hear Demands to Use Social and Environmental Issues in Decision-Making
U.S. insurers are increasingly listening to demands from stakeholders that they use social and environmental factors in their decision-making, according to a new AM Best survey. The ratings entity ...
Chubb CEO Greenberg: More Than Climate Change Drives Climb in Natural Catastrophe Insured Losses
Chubb, like all P/C insurers, is seeing regular spikes in commercial and personal property insured losses due to increasingly costly natural catastrophes. Chubb Chairman and CEO Evan Greenberg said ...
AIG Makes Leadership Changes as It Readies Separation of Life & Retirement Business
American International Group made a number of senior leadership changes intended to aid in the separation of its Life & Retirement business and other strategic priorities. Among the biggest ...