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Chubb Names New Leadership in Casualty Major Accounts for North America

Jul 14 2017 // Chubb today has made new leadership appointments within its Global Casualty and Excess Casualty lines of business for its North America Major Accounts division, which serves large U.S.- and Canadian-based companies...

Update: GOP Senate Leaders Unveil Revised Health Insurance Bill

Jul 13 2017 // Senate Republican leaders released a revised health care plan Thursday that would provide an added $70 billion to stabilize insurance exchanges over a decade in an effort to win over GOP holdouts.The change comes on top of...

Willis Towers Watson Announces New Leadership for North America Brokerage Unit

Jul 11 2017 // Global insurance broker Willis Towers Watson has made several senior appointments in its North America Corporate Risk and Broking (CRB) business.Mark Rusas has been appointed CRB Northeast region leader, where he will be...

Silicon Valley Honors Munich Re US and Mozeika for Insurtech Leadership

Jul 11 2017 // A Silicon Valley innovation platform that connects technology startups, corporations and investors has recognized Munich Re, US for leadership in the insurtech space. The high-tech incubator and mentoring group known as...

Pennsylvania a Leader in National Investigation into Sale of Opioids

Jul 10 2017 // Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro is working with a bipartisan coalition of a majority of attorneys general from across the country in an ongoing investigation to evaluate whether manufacturers have engaged in...

Massachusetts’ Knight-Dik Insurance: 100 Years, Four Generations of Leadership

Jul 10 2017 // When Thomas Babb launched his insurance agency – Thomas Babb Insurance Agency – in an 11-story building in downtown Worcester, Mass., in 1917, he also launched a legacy that would span a century of growth and...

Republican Leader McConnell Hints at Bipartisan Action If Obamacare Repeal Fails

Jul 7 2017 // U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday that Congress must act to shore up private health insurance markets if it fails to repeal Obamacare, comments seen as providing a pathway to a bipartisan deal...

Southeast Michigan a Leader in Smart Road Technology

Jun 27 2017 // Southeast Michigan is becoming a leader in developing “connected” roads and traffic signals that will “talk” directly to the next generation of cars.The features are the building blocks that will...

XL Catlin Promotes E&S Property Insurance Regional Leader in Boston

Jun 23 2017 // XL Catlin’s excess and surplus (E&S) insurance team has promoted Caitlin Murphy from senior underwriter to the role of eastern regional vice president of E&S Property.In her new role, Murphy will direct...

JLT Specialty Makes Leadership Changes at North America Aerospace Practice

Jun 20 2017 // Global specialty broker and risk advisor JLT Specialty USA has made several leadership appointments in its Aerospace practice in North America.The appointments include elevating Phil Gingell, who most recently served as...

Inland Marine Underwriters Association Elects Leadership

Jun 5 2017 // The Inland Marine Underwriters Association (IMUA) has approved its 2017 slate of officers, with William Rosa, XL Catlin Re, being re-elected the association’s chair.Also re-elected were Richard Pye, QBE North...

NICB Confirms Texas as Leader in Hail Damage Claims

Jun 5 2017 // Everything is big in Texas, including hailstorms. The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) reported that insurance claims for hail damage in Texaslast year exceeded the previous two years combined.Hail damage fluctuates...

How Diverse and Inclusive Cultures Drive Business Results

Jun 5 2017 // There is a famous story about a visit by President Kennedy to the NASA space center. When Kennedy noticed a man carrying a broom in one of the buildings, he asked: “What’s your job here?” The janitor...

States May Seize U.S. Climate Change Leadership Following Trump’s Paris Exit

Jun 2 2017 // State governors and city mayors were quick to claim the mantle of U.S. leadership in fighting climate change after President Donald Trump said on Thursday the country will pull out of the Paris climate agreement.The...

Trump Hands Climate Leadership Role to China to Dismay of Global Leaders

Jun 2 2017 // President Donald Trump’s decision to isolate the U.S. on climate change triggered waves of complaints from government and business leaders around the world and handed China a golden opportunity to burnish its image...

Emotional Intelligence: Do Your Leaders Walk the Talk?

May 25 2017 // There is a famous story about a visit by President Kennedy to the NASA space center. When Kennedy noticed a man carrying a broom in one of the buildings, he asked: “What’s your job here?” The janitor...

ISMIE Mutual Insurance Leader, Harold Jensen, Passes

May 24 2017 // Chicago-based medical professional liability insurer, ISMIE Mutual, is mourning the the loss of its late chairman, Harold L. Jensen, M.D. Jensen died unexpectedly on Monday, May 22, 2017.A strong and visionary leader, Dr....

Re/Insurers, Other Global Businesses Have Stake in New WHO Leader

May 19 2017 // The World Health Organization’s 194 member-states will vote for a new director-general next week, choosing a doctor to lead the planet’s top technical agency on all matters health.With a $4 billion annual...

FCCI Appoints New Leadership in Gulf Coast Region

May 18 2017 // FCCI Insurance Group (FCCI), a provider of commercial property and casualty insurance, has promoted Tiffany Hawkins to regional vice president, and Trey Stone to assistant vice president in the Gulf Coast Regional office...

FM Global Appoints 3 Senior Leaders to New Positions

May 17 2017 // Commercial and industrial property insurer FM Global has moved three of its seasoned leaders to new roles. Michael C. Lebovitz, senior vice president at middle market property insurer AFM, a member of the FM Global Group,...