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Lemonade Co-Founder Calls Out Amazon for Poaching Employees
With two social media posts, Lemonade Co-Founder Shai Wininger called out Amazon for poaching the employees of his insurance carrier powered by artificial intelligence and behavioral economics, also ...
AIG CEO Duperreault: Progress Made, Improvement Needed in Bringing Young Employees to Insurance
American International Group CEO Brian Duperreault said an effort launched about two years ago to recruit more young people to the property/casualty industry is making some progress, but there is ...
After several years in which much of P&C was focused on restoring rate adequacy and profitability, the market is finally...
Legacy Biz Hurts GE; CEO Floats Breakup Option After $6.2B LTC Insurance Charge
General Electric Co. indicated it is looking closely at breaking itself up on Tuesday as the conglomerate announced more than $11 billion in charges from its long-term care insurance portfolio and ...
Deutsche Bank, Digital Broker Friendsurance Form Partnership
Deutsche Bank and digital insurance broker Friendsurance have formed a partnership designed to make it simpler and more transparent and convenient for clients to arrange for their insurance needs. To ...
E&S Deal: CapSpecialty Buys Renewal Rights to Rockhill Environmental Biz from State Auto
Capitol Indemnity Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of CapSpecialty Inc., said it has acquired the renewal rights to Rockhill Insurance Group's excess and surplus environmental insurance book of ...
Machine Learning From the Insurance Trenches
There has never been a book that changed my world view like "The World Is Flat" by Thomas Friedman. I was in my early 20s, and the book helped me realize I was competing with other workers throughout ...
Federal, State Regulators Propose Consolidated Collection of Terrorism Insurance Data
The process carriers follow to collect data required under the U.S. federal terrorism reinsurance program are moving toward a more streamlined approach in 2018. Previously, U.S. Department of ...
Calif. Mudslides Devastate Billionaire Enclave; Insurance Damage Could Be Massive
The mudslides on the California coastal town of Montecito have devastated a wealthy enclave where billionaires including Charlie Munger, Eric Schmidt and Oprah Winfrey own properties, with hundreds ...