Personal Lines
Progressive Plans to Hire Up to 8,000 Additional Employees in 2020
Progressive said it plans to hire as many as 8,000 new employees nationally in 2020 to help propel continued growth in auto, property, commercial lines and recreational products insurance. Hiring ...
Nationwide Teaming Up With Toyota on New Insurance Program
Nationwide is teaming up with Toyota Insurance Management Solutions (TIMS), Toyota's exclusive independent insurance agency for North America, to launch TIMS BrightDrive, a Toyota insurance ...
Q&A With Metromile CEO Dan Preston: On Culture, IPO, Loss Ratios and More
The chief executive officer of Metromile, Dan Preston, recently spoke with Carrier Management about Metromile's software as a service business (Metromile Enterprise), broadening Metromile's insurance ...
Dearly Departed InsurTechs: Expect Their Numbers to Rise
For every Lemonade and Root that launches with great fanfare, attracts hundreds of millions of dollars in venture funding and publicizes every facet of its growth, there are many InsurTechs that ...
Andersen Named Aon President as Former Co-Leader O’Connor Exits
Aon plc named Eric Andersen as president of Aon, reporting to Greg Case, the firm's CEO. Since May 2018, Andersen and Michael O'Connor had served as Aon co-presidents. Aon said O'Connor is departing ...
But Wait. Here’s ‘The Rest of The Story’ on Buffett’s Lubrizol
In his firm's annual report released this weekend, Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett included a side note on one of the companies his conglomerate bought in 2011 for $9 billion, a company called ...
Saudi Arabia Seeks to Raise Insurer Capital Requirements
Saudi Arabia is working on new regulations that would raise capital requirements for the kingdom's overcrowded insurance sector, its central bank governor said in an interview with Bloomberg TV. The ...
Berkshire Hathaway 2019 P/C Insurance Profit Disappoints
Full-year insurance results at Berkshire Hathaway disappointed in 2019, with after-tax earnings from underwriting falling to $325 million in 2019 compared to $1.6 billion in 2018. Earnings from ...