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Root Hires Former Tennessee Insurance Commissioner McPeak as Expansion Continues
Former Tennessee insurance commissioner Julie Mix McPeak has joined Root Insurance in a leadership role. She is the Ohio-based InsurTech's Senior Deputy General Counsel as of Sept. 1. McPeak is well ...
China Re Group Enjoyed Robust Growth for H1 2020
China Re Group Corp enjoyed rapid growth in premiums and steady profitability in the first half of 2020 despite the pandemic. Overall, gross written premiums in the first half of 2020 increased 20.5 ...
Envelop Risk Paves the Way as InsurTech Reinsurance MGA
Managing general agents for reinsurance are rare. Reinsurance MGAs that write cyber are even rarer, which is the world that Envelop Risk inhabits. "We think we're the only InsurTech firm involved in ...
Reinsurance Experience in Africa, Asia Sets MGA Tempo Apart
Tom Bailey, executive director of Tempo Underwriting, has a theory about what it takes to build a business based on the reinsurance MGA model. "For a reinsurance MGA to be successful and to have a ...
Finding Niches: Reinsurance MGAs Carving Out Special Market Slices
Reinsurance managing general agents are a rare breed as opposed to their more prevalent insurance-focused counterparts. The successful reinsurance MGAs have a niche, a focus. What they have in common ...
Social Inflation and the Risk of D&O-GL Clash
Social inflation is the primary explanation offered for the need to increase general liability and excess casualty premiums in the last two years. With social inflation, injured parties are more ...
QBE CEO Regan Departs After Investigation Following Female Employee’s Complaint
QBE Insurance Group's Chief Executive Officer Pat Regan is departing the insurer after an external investigation found his workplace communications did not meet the standards set out in the group's ...
Stories+Words+Machines: A Nerd’s Formula for Building an InsurTech
There probably aren't too many people who think about insurance claims scenarios when they go out to buy ice cream. Chris Cheatham, the CEO of InsurTech Risk Genius, is one of them, according to a ...