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Fast Start to Wildfire Season: Why Golden State Faces Continued Risk
The 2016 U.S. wildfire season got off to an early start, with more than 2.1 million acres scorched through the end of June, the highest year-to-date total since 2011. Although peak fire season in the ...
Carriers Losing Sight of Traditional Cat Risk Exposures: AIR Worldwide CEO
Novel risks of the digital age are not the only ones that property/casualty insurance industry executives should be worried about as they seek to manage insurance and reinsurance portfolios, the ...
More Regulatory Uncertainty: Coping With Brexit
Have you ever been skydiving? If, like me, you're a newbie with a healthy fear of jumping out of an airplane thousands of feet above the ground, the trick is to never quite believe it's going to ...
Take Charge of Your Own Leadership Development
You've heard these words: "I'm frustrated that I'm not moving up fast enough at work...Why was I passed over for a promotion that I thought I deserved…They told me that I wasn't qualified for a ...
A Top Priority: Regulators Tackle Cybersecurity
Of all the issues currently facing the insurance industry, perhaps none is more important than cybersecurity. The recent data breaches at four insurance companies focused attention on the insurance ...
IACP Conference: Carriers Attacking Unsustainable Costs, Endurance Exec Says
Against a backdrop of excess capital, low interest rates, increasing broker leverage and decelerating insurance price hikes, carrier management teams are zeroing in on expenses to squeeze out some ...
Pandemics and Climate Change Present Opportunity for Insurers
The shoe may eventually be placed on the other foot for the U.S. This nation has a long-standing tradition of innovating products and ideas—particularly insurance products—and then exporting them ...
Political Connections Ease the M&A Process
Firms that maintain political connections have an easier path through the merger process. In a study that is the first to examine the issue, we compare the differences in merger behavior and outcomes ...