Personal Lines
Buffett’s Annual Letter to Berkshire Hathaway Could Offer More CEO Succession Clues
Warren Buffett's annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway Inc. shareholders is coming Saturday, and it may bring more clues about the 87-year-old billionaire's succession plans at his conglomerate. In ...
Mobile Broadband Access and Auto Collision Frequency Uncorrelated, Actuaries Find
Mobile broadband access—used as an indicator of the likelihood that drivers may be using mobile devices while driving—appears to have no impact on collision frequency, according to a recent ...
Flying Cars Will Ease U.S. Traffic Congestion in 10 Years: Uber CEO
Flying cars will be zipping across U.S. skies within the coming decade—at least that's what Uber Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi predicted last month. "There will be ...
Liberty Mutual’s Safeco to Take Over MAPFRE’s Personal Lines Biz in Three States
MAPFRE Insurance, which last year decided to exit five states and focus on 11, is turning over its personal lines business in three of those five states to Safeco Insurance, a Liberty Mutual unit. ...
Finding Qualified Insurance Employees Remains a Challenge Even as Hiring Stabilizes
Fifty-eight percent of insurance companies plan to increase staff during the next 12 months, in part due to an expected increase in business and new markets, according to the Semi-Annual U.S. ...
Growing Drone Risks Evident in Spike of Collisions and Close Calls
Aviation regulators are investigating a flurry of collisions and close calls between consumer drones and aircraft, encounters they say pose significant risks to the flying public. Canadian ...
DroneBase Raises $12M in New Financing; Insurers Among Drone Operator’s Customers
DroneBase raised $12 million in new funding to expand its drone operations services for insurers and other businesses. Union Square Ventures and Upfront Ventures co-led the round. DJI and new ...
‘Hyper-Learning’ Could Be Good Tool to Rapidly Transform Your Company
Hyper-learning — the process of continuously learning and unlearning — is a way to help transform companies and other large organizations trying to adapt in the Digital Age, a University of ...