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How Wearable Devices Are Disrupting the Insurance Industry
Nearly 50 years after Captain Kirk began using his wrist communicator on the television show "Star Trek," wearable technology is taking hold. From Fitbit to Google Glass, the technology is ...
Strategies for Coping With a Tsunami of Regulations
Once upon a time, insurance regulation for U.S. companies was pretty straightforward. But then came 2008. Things changed. The influencers if not the direct regulators of U.S. insurance companies have ...
Changing Behavior of American Drivers and the Impact on Auto Insurance
Americans just love driving. They clocked 35,795,000,000,000 miles in 2014 and have far outstripped every other nation in driving mileage. Insurance companies historically have placed a great weight ...
A Boardroom Guide to NAIC’s ORSA
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners voted to implement an addition to U.S. insurance regulation known as the Own Risk and Solvency Assessment Model Act back in 2011, but it is this ...
Executing Business Strategy by Letting Others Take Center Stage
Insurance leaders are well aware that their firms need well-defined strategies to succeed in an increasingly competitive marketplace. That message is trumpeted in countless books and articles ...
Dollars and Sense: Risk-Based Pricing Helps Insurers Find Opportunities
Today, many insurers believe there is no bad risk—it just needs to be priced properly. As the market trends toward more analytic- and data-driven decisions, insurers are continually exploring ways ...
About the Carrier Management/Jacobson Survey
While there have been many studies of succession planning, the Carrier Management/Jacobson Group survey is the only one to focus exclusively on P/C insurers, making it a valuable benchmarking ...
Successor Spotlight: Gross Takes the Helm at SECURA
Sometime after John Bykowski decided he would step down from the CEO role at SECURA Insurance, with a retirement date set for mid-2014, David Gross, the senior vice president of underwriting ...