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What’s in a Name? The Importance of Reputation Management
"Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon," Mark Twain once said. Reputation is as important today as it was in Twain's day, but perhaps not necessarily as unassailable. ...
Earthquakes for CEOs: Understanding the Most Recent USGS Report
Every six years the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) produces an updated set of seismic hazard maps for the United States. These National Hazard Maps show the estimated probabilities of different levels ...
What Investor Activism Means for Insurers—Those Under Attack and Those That Aren’t
Carl Icahn's demands for American International Group to split into three different companies may seem over the top to some. More importantly for the P/C market at large, however, is that the hedge ...
Welcome to the Future
Some observers have called 2015 "the year the future arrived" for the insurance industry. After close to a decade discussing the potential disruptive effects of big data, wearables, the Internet of ...
P/C Insurer Profits Pressured From All Sides in 2016
U.S. property/casualty insurers will mark a third consecutive year of underwriting profits in 2015, a feat unmatched since the early 1970s. However, market sentiment has shifted unfavorably as ...
Top 5 Markets of 2015
There was no shortage of new products launched by the insurance industry in 2015. Cyber, a risk that has consistently seen a lot of activity over at least the last several years, continued to be on ...
The Changing State of Flood Insurance in the U.S.
Catastrophic floods have been damaging homes for as long as people have had permanent dwellings. They can cause devastating losses to homeowners and businesses alike almost anywhere in the U.S., both ...
How to Win Big With Predictive Claims Analytics: Six Steps for Insurance Executives
The implementation of predictive analytics is simple and valuable, and it is key to the transformation of claims and legal expenses into valuable assets for insurance companies. Once you implement ...