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Busting Myths About Underwriting Technology
Cutting your hair makes it grow faster. Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. Humans use only 10 percent of their brains. Most people assume those statements to be correct because they are so often ...
Top 25 Non-Life Reinsurers: A.M. Best’s 2015 Ranking
Catlin Group rose into the ranks of the top 25 global non-life reinsurers—even before considering the impact of a combination with XL Group—but no new names appeared among the top 10, according ...
Reinsurance M&A Intensifies in Competitive Market Environment
The reinsurance industry is in a state of transition as unutilized capital and the threat of alternative reinsurance providers, combined with slowing premium growth and sagging investment yields, ...
When Uniform Is Not Uniform: Applying Electronic Transaction Laws to Insurance
The use of electronic transactions has grown significantly in the last two decades. Many consumers demand the ability to place their insurance policies electronically, and failing to meet these ...
How to Know What Insurance Customers Want
What do today's customers want from insurance providers? They want understanding, interaction, even a relationship. But they vary in when and how they wish to learn, interact and build that ...
Stephen Catlin’s Career
• 1973: Began insurance career in 1973, joining BL Evens & Others on Syndicate 264 at Lloyd's. • 1982: Became deputy underwriter, specializing in the excess of loss and energy accounts where ...
Catlin Says M&A Integration Is the Key to Success—and the Most Difficult Part
Stephen Catlin, executive deputy chairman of XL Catlin, knows a thing or two about mergers and acquisitions in the insurance industry—what to do and what to avoid. He should know; he's been ...
Good to Great Leaders
When Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz wrote a New York Times Op-Ed titled "America Deserves a Servant Leader" in August, he described a leadership style that is growing in popularity among some of the ...