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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 ...
Blue Ocean Strategy
One of the many books published on strategy development is "Blue Ocean Strategy," in which authors W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, professors of strategy at INSEAD and co-directors of the INSEAD ...
Solvency II Staggers to the Finish Line: International Editor Looks Back
It's been a long process, but, according to Paul Fisher, deputy head of the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), who supervises insurance and regulatory risk, it is nearing ...
A Son of Watergate Remembers His Father
To the world, H.R. Haldeman was President Richard Nixon's chief of staff beginning in 1969 and a central figure in the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s. To Hank Haldeman, H.R. Haldeman was also ...
3 Reasons Leaders Can’t Keep an Open Mind
Many individuals in corporate leadership positions have created the illusion for themselves that their ideas alone are the best and their word on every subject within their sphere of influence is ...
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 ...