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Can We Fix Earthquake Insurance in California?
Twenty years ago, on Jan. 17, 1994, a previously unknown fault ruptured nine miles beneath Northridge in the San Fernando Valley. With a magnitude of 6.7 and an epicenter just 20 miles northwest of ...
Energi Insurance CEO McCarthy: Plugged Into Energy Revolution Through R&D
Just as there are best practices for managing today's energy risks, there are best practices for managing a company that specializes in insuring those risks. According to Brian McCarthy, best ...
What It Takes to Be a P/C Insurer COO: Executive Recruiter Views
The leaders of operations of property/casualty companies carry various titles and have a wide range of responsibilities—so different, in fact, that even industry executive placement experts have a ...
Does Your Company Need a COO?
Some P/C insurance companies have chief operating officers; some have more than one. Others have chief operations officers. All are C-suite positions. But does every carrier actually need a leader of ...
Beyond a Sense of Humor: What Does It Take to Lead P/C Operations?
When Carrier Management interviewed three chief operating officers and two chief operations officers of property/casualty insurance companies recently, all five said a sense of humor was one of the ...
Netflix’s House of Cards and Other Big Data Case Studies
How did program developers at Netflix know that viewers of the BBC television series "House of Cards" also enjoyed movies starring Kevin Spacey and directed by David Finch? They analyzed big data to ...
Reinsurance CEOs: What Alternative Capital Means to Traditional Industry
The hottest topic in the reinsurance world was on the agenda at the Property/Casualty Insurance Joint Industry Forum in January, where two reinsurance executives gave different perspectives on what ...
P/C Executive Views: Data Security Strategies and Cyber Insurance Sales
As cyber attackers continue to menace businesses in all industry sectors, property/casualty insurers are working to provide network security and privacy coverage. But how are the insurers managing ...