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Good Habits of 5 Successful Leaders
Many leaders can cite good habits that have helped them stay grounded, healthy and effective while achieving success in business and in life. As a successful insurance executive, you probably have ...
Swiss Re Hit With 2019 Profit Drop; P/C Combined Ratio Reaches 107.8
Reinsurer Swiss Re reported on Thursday a smaller-than-expected profit in 2019 due to claims for a series of man-made and natural disasters, as well as expenses for its U.S. casualty business, ...
Allstate’s New Growth Plan Includes Agent Commission Revamp, More Advertising
Allstate first disclosed its Transformative Growth Plan in December, an effort to overhaul how it does business, boost efficiency and reduce expenses. During the Illinois-based property/casualty ...
InsurTech Ecosystem: Value Beyond Technologies
In recent years, we've seen significant investments flow into the InsurTech ecosystem, creating thousands of new technology tools. Yet it's this same volume that's leaving many carriers overwhelmed ...
Lemonade CEO Schreiber Addresses 2020 Plans, Leadership and Hammocks
For Lemonade, 2019 was a banner year. The InsurTech, which launched in New York in 2016, attracted a $300 million financing round, bringing its total cash haul to nearly half a billion dollars. The ...
VC Funding Could Dry Up, InsurTech Exec Says
The days of VC funds and strategic investors throwing money at InsurTechs may be numbered, an InsurTech executive warned fellow startup leaders late last year during a presentation at an InsurTech ...
Start Posting Your Comments Right Now
To all of our Carrier Management readers: Happy New Year! With the advance of 2020, we are also announcing the launch of something new on our website: Readers can now post comments about the stories ...
Commercial Lines InsurTech Bold Penguin Snatches Up E&S Brokerage Tech Platform xagent
Bold Penguin, a commercial insurance exchange technology platform launched in 2016, announced it has acquired xagent, an independent, single-entry, multi-quote platform for standard and surplus lines ...