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The New Age Of Technology: 3-D Printing
Earlier this year, scientists from Cornell University successfully created an artificial human ear by printing it on a 3-D printer. Created by squirting living cells into an injection mold, the ears ...
How They Rank: Fitch Reports On Top D&O Insurers
Directors and officers liability insurance premium rates were previously lagging the market recovery in the broader commercial lines segment, but pricing trends are now catching up, Fitch Ratings ...
Social Media & The SEC: New Opportunity and New Risk for Public Companies
It is now over a month since the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued guidance in the form of a report of investigation ("April Report") explaining why it decided not to bring an ...
Study Finds Link Between High Upfront Compensation & CEO Success
How much CEOs are compensated is often a subject of angst in the media and among the public. When a company's board of directors hires a new chief executive, it's often perceived that the level of ...
External Perspective: Business, Taxes and Responsibility
In recent months, people and their politicians around the world have been astonished to learn that big companies and billionaires will go to extraordinary lengths to pay lower taxes. Thanks to the ...
Understanding S&P’s New Insurance Rating Criteria: Rodney Clark Q&A
Late last month—in advance of the May 7, 2013 publication of a new rating methodology for insurers by Standard & Poor's—S&P Managing Director Rodney Clark gave Carrier Management a ...
When Money Talks, Employees Walk to Trim Health Insurance Costs
It was a controversial move when a health insurer began requiring people who were obese to literally pay the price of not doing anything about their weight – but it worked, a new study finds. When ...
How To Reverse Declines In Your Management Liability Portfolio
What do you do when your management liability portfolio isn't producing the same rate of return it has in the past? The returns on today's D&O and EPLI policies are diminishing and are actually ...