Brown & Brown to Acquire Risk Strategies, One80 Parent for Nearly $10B
Brown & Brown Inc. said it has entered into an agreement to buy Accession Risk Management, the parent company of specialty brokerage firm Risk Strategies and wholesaler One80 ...
Strategy
Long-Term Thinking and Scale Keys to Travelers Success: CEO Schnitzer
When an S&P Global Ratings executive asked the leader of Travelers how current challenges like tariff uncertainty, inflation and geopolitical risks influence the insurer's strategy, Alan ...
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 ...