Executive Viewpoint
A Trailblazer in the Lloyd’s Marketplace Looks Back and Ahead
It took enormous courage to walk into Lloyd's for the first time and into the underwriting room—also known as "The Room." I was a very junior broker with absolutely no experience, tasked with ...
Staying Profitable in an Increasingly Fragmented World: SCOR Global P&C CEO Conoscente
There are several things that keep SCOR's Jean-Paul Conoscente awake at night. Climate change is one of them; cyber risk is another. Only time will tell whether these risks are actually insurable, ...
Relationships Remain the Required Human Element of the Industry: Nationwide’s Rasmussen
From autonomous vehicles to index funds, our world and our industry are changing, and it would seem that people are less a required element. But I'm here to tell you that people—more specifically ...
Building a Specialty Carrier: Does Culture Beat Strategy, or Is Culture Strategy?
After getting the go-ahead to build a new insurance company, BHSI's founding executive team—Peter Eastwood, president and CEO; David Bresnahan, executive vice president; David Fields, executive ...
The Future of Insurance Has Brokers at Its Heart
When many of my peers and I entered the industry, several days or weeks could pass between the initial inquiry by a potential policyholder and the time a transaction took place. Applications were ...
Can InsurTechs Follow Uber’s Path? There May Be Pitfalls
Uber Technologies Inc. announced its first quarterly results as a public company with an operating loss of over $5 billion in the quarter. The company is emblematic of the growth-at-all-costs model ...
Conducting Insurance Business at the Speed of Now
Rapidly changing situations and opportunities often outpace the speed and capability of communication in today's insurance industry. Creating the ability to connect firms, brokers and underwriters ...
Executive View: Why Insurers Need to Partner With Customers, Tech Startups
As smart carriers continue to leverage cognitive and digital computing technologies to better understand, mitigate and absorb customers' property and casualty risks, the insurance industry is primed ...