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Chubb CEO Greenberg: Enhanced Digital Experience Coming for High-Net-Worth Customers
Chubb CEO Evan Greenberg said the insurer plans to enhance its high-net-worth customers' digital experience in the coming months, underscoring the growing importance of InsurTech improvements as part ...
CEO Insight on Insurance M&A Drivers: From Fine Wine to Snapple
FROM THE ARCHIVES: A VINTAGE CARRIER MANAGEMENT ARTICLE FROM 2016 But even though insurance and reinsurance leaders these days deliver long lists of seemingly more compelling and logical reasons for ...
First Self-Driving Commercial Shipment: Uber Truck Makes Beer Delivery
A tractor trailer full of beer drove itself down Colorado's I-25 last week with nobody behind the wheel. Uber Technologies Inc. and Anheuser-Busch InBev NV teamed up on the delivery, which they said ...
Former Vt. Regulator Joins NCCI as Chief Regulatory Services Officer
Susan Donegan has been named as the new chief regulatory services officer for the NCCI. Donegan assumed the position on Sept. 19, and succeeds Helen Westervelt, who announced her retirement in ...
Blockchain Tech Provider Launches Open Source Platform
Time to put the blockchain hype to the test. After a year of promises that the technology would revolutionize Wall Street, anyone can now download an entire blockchain specifically built for ...
Root Debuts; Carrier’s Smartphone App Helps Good Drivers Get Cheaper Rates
Root officially debuts in the U.S. market on Oct. 25. The fledgling auto insurer, just 18 months old, relies on telematics and a customer's smartphone to deliver what it says will be significantly ...
Chinese M&A Continues; Billionaire Investor Moves to Snag Genworth
China Oceanwide Holdings Group Co. has agreed to purchase Genworth Financial Inc. in a $2.7 billion cash deal, joining a record buying spree by Chinese companies as they seek to boost growth ...
Carrier Climate Change Risk Disclosure Has Improved: Ceres Analysis
Insurers in the United States are increasingly willing to disclose their risk management practices related to climate change, according to a new report suggesting that last year's global accord in ...