Strategy
How To Transform Tedious Book Transfers Into Growth Opportunities
Acquiring a book of business has traditionally been viewed by carriers as a necessary evil, a complex, time-consuming, and often tedious undertaking. This process, whether driven by mergers, ...
Travelers Selling Canadian Insurance Businesses Other Than Surety for $2.4B
The Travelers Companies, Inc. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell Travelers Canada's personal insurance business and the majority of its commercial insurance business to ...
‘Can’t Cut to Greatness’: Wilson Lays Out Simple Strategy for Markel E&S
"You can't cut yourself to greatness." Simon Wilson, chief executive officer of Markel Insurance, made the simple statement at a Markel Group Brunch meeting for investors in Omaha on May 4 to convey ...
Innovation: Why Carriers Shouldn’t Try to Keep Up With the Joneses
Innovation has been generating much attention lately due to the explosive growth of AI, even though the concept of innovation has existed ever since cavemen learned how ...
AIG: Turning One Human Underwriter Into Five, ‘Turbocharging’ E&S
Some property/casualty insurers talk about experimenting with artificial intelligence to automate call center responses and back-office operations. But that's not the road to turbocharging growth ...
Progressive: Policies Grow Faster Than Workforce
Parts of Progressive's year-end earnings call early this month sounded a bit like Lemonade's Investor Day last year—with both focused on how automation supports growth without adding people. In ...
Data Insight: Who’s Growing in Personal Lines?
A relative newcomer to the personal lines space—Lemonade—marked a milestone this week, announcing that it surpassed $1 billion of in force premiums, a measure of annualized premiums that the ...
Allstate: How Can You Save on Auto Insurance?
Helping customers to save money is part of the go-forward plan at Allstate, aimed at boosting retention levels that fell in response to rate hikes in recent years. Now that Allstate's combined ratio ...