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Why Black Women Are Key to Leveraging Intersectionality in Insurance

Despite the years of heightened focus on race and gender, the insurance industry is lagging to rid itself of its legacy as a white-male network. As household insurance firms incorporate diversity and ...

Inclusion Is a Team Effort: What ‘Team’ Really Means

Inclusion takes teamwork. Colleagues need to support one another, lift each other up, act as allies. The problem is that "most people have never been on a team. They've been on a group of elite ...

The Latest Launches From Zurich, Berkley

Zurich has launched a service to help businesses assess and improve their DEI. Berkley has formed a new business to provide excess liability insurance for contractors throughout the construction ...

National African American Insurance Association Charters 3 New Chapters

The National African American Insurance Association (NAAIA) announced the chartering of three new chapters: Arkansas, Colorado and Los Angeles. The three new chapters join these 18 existing and ...

U.S. Insurers Hear Demands to Use Social and Environmental Issues in Decision-Making

U.S. insurers are increasingly listening to demands from stakeholders that they use social and environmental factors in their decision-making, according to a new AM Best survey. The ratings entity ...

The ABCs of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

The focus on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the insurance sector is gaining pace—not just linearly but exponentially. More and more people have become part of the conversation, yet many ...

How to Become a Strong Ally: Listen, Learn, Advocate

A successful diversity and inclusion program isn't just about transforming processes—you also need to create a culture of allyship and advocacy. "Being an ally goes way beyond just acceptance," ...

Doomed to Fail: Workplace Diversity Without Inclusion

The insurance industry is one of many sectors seeing workplace diversity not progressing fast enough. The percentage of non-white employees in the insurance workforce, for example, stood at 21.4 ...

Diversity Needs to Be Seen as a Business Imperative

Companies have been discussing the importance of diversity and inclusion for years, but now it's time to take action—to make real, observable, measurable and sustainable progress. That starts with ...

Bridging the Disability Gap

Failure to ensure your company is accessible to people with disabilities can affect your talent pool and your bottom line, warned Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Microsoft's chief accessibility officer, during a ...