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Good Leaders Listen, Giving Employees Plenty of Time to Answer Questions
Executives succeed, in part, by being good listeners, hearing their employees' concerns and questions, and responding in kind. The Random Acts of Leadership blog suggests leaders can improve this ...
Executives On The Move at W.R. Berkley, BHSI and Guy Carpenter
W.R. Berkley Corp. appointed an executive to run a subsidiary focused on workers compensation. Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance promoted one of its executives to a leadership role focused on ...
Farmers Adds Uber Driver Cover to 13 Additional Markets
Farmers Insurance has expanded its commercial auto insurance coverage for Uber drivers into 13 new markets. In all, Farmers said the product is now available to drivers using the Uber App in 14 ...
American Financial Group Decides to Exit Lloyd’s of London
American Financial Group Inc. disclosed it will exit the Lloyd's of London insurance marketplace in 2020, an entity it joined in 2008 through an acquisition. The Ohio-based insurance holding company ...
JetBlue Discloses Plans to Become First Carbon-Neutral U.S. Airline
JetBlue Airways Corp. said it will become the first large U.S. airline to offset emissions from all of its domestic flights, aiming to become carbon neutral by July as pressure grows on the industry ...
Australia’s Bushfire Crisis Causes Business Interruption Chain Reaction
Australia's deadly bushfire crisis is affecting some of the nation's biggest companies including dairy producer Bega Cheese Ltd. and airline Qantas Airways Ltd. Bega led declines on the benchmark ...
Climate Change, Cyber Warfare Top London Market Issues for 2020: IUA
Climate change and cyber warfare risks are two key London market issues highlighted by the International Underwriting Association (IUA) in its business plan for 2020. The association said it is ...XILO Raises Seed Funding, Hoping to Help Agents Compete With Lemonade
XILO, a San Diego-based InsurTech, announced at the end of 2020 that it has raised just over $2 million in seed financing to fuel development of an SaaS platform for insurance agents. In an indirect ...