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The Underwriting Staffing Challenge: Recruitment Strategies for a Vanishing Talent Pool

The war for talent has hit the insurance industry with incredible force. Having weathered the recent "Great Recession" with its record unemployment rates, company downsizings and mass professional ...

Strategy Is a Missing Piece of Many Carrier Succession Plans: Survey

Nearly 60 percent of property/casualty insurers do not have written CEO succession plans in place, Carrier Management and The Jacobson Group found in a recent survey of CEOs, board members and ...

Who Will Be Your Next Leader?

When Sally Smith became the chief executive officer of Buffalo Wild Wings in 1996, it wasn't exactly a planned event. According to Smith's account published in the New York Times (as part of Adam ...

Best Industry Job Prospects in Tech, Underwriting and Claims

Those looking for jobs within the insurance industry should focus on employment opportunities within technology, underwriting and claims departments, according to the latest survey conducted by ...