All the headlines from our Leadership Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 15 2017 // Texas highways continue to be a deadly form of travel as traffic crashes involving injuries and fatalities continue to rise. Last year, 3,390 traffic crashes resulted in 3,757 fatalities and 175,347 traffic crashes...
Feb 8 2017 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has named Norman Allen corporate executive protection practice leader. Norman will be responsible for providing vision and focus for the practice, which includes...
Feb 7 2017 // More than half of British business leaders believe the vote to leave the European Union has had a negative impact on their companies but most firms are confident they can survive the change, according to a survey on...
Feb 6 2017 // Robert Halvorsen has Technology Practice Leaders team at HUB International Midwest, a division of HUB International Limited. As a technology practice leader (TPL), Halvorsen will be responsible for helping to provide...
Feb 3 2017 // Markel Corp., headquartered in Richmond, Va., has named Jane Peterson as executive underwriting officer on its Product Line Leadership team.In this role, Peterson is based in Markel’s Cranston, R.I., office and...
Feb 2 2017 // Global specialty insurer The Navigators Group Inc. has appointed Jacob Ingerslev to the newly created position of global practice leader for cyber liability.Ingerslev will be responsible for leading Navigators’ cyber...
Feb 1 2017 // Paul Delbridge has taken on the role of London market insurance leader at PwC. Delbridge is a partner with 30 years’ experience at the firm, including three years in New York, almost all of which has been spent in...
Jan 27 2017 // Insurance brokerage firm, Hylant, has named Kevin O’Donnell and Tony Packo III to new roles within the leadership team at its headquarters in Toledo, Ohio.O’Donnell was appointed senior vice president,...
Jan 26 2017 // Although the Financial Stability Oversight Council created by the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform Act could serve an incredibly useful purpose, FSOC’s activities so far have been misguided, an insurance regulator...
Jan 25 2017 // Zurich North America has announced the name of its new North America Commercial Insurance unit and leadership team. This new unit brings together the former Commercial Markets and the former Global Corporate in North...
Jan 24 2017 // Idaho Department of Insurance Director Dean Cameron has been named as vice chair of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Life Insurance and Annuities Committee for 2017. Director Cameron was elected...
Jan 23 2017 // Anthony F. Markel, vice chairman of the board at Markel Corp., was honored by The Peter J. Tobin College of Business at St. John’s University as the School of Risk Management’s 2016 Insurance Leader of the Year...
Jan 23 2017 // Open markets and global trade have been blamed for job losses over the last decade, but global CEOs say the real culprits are increasingly machines.And while business leaders gathered at the annual World Economic Forum...
Jan 19 2017 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has been named vice-chairman of the Market Regulation and Consumer Affairs (D) Committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC).In a statement released by...
Jan 12 2017 // Erie Insurance Group, an Erie, Penn., based insurer, has announced operational and senior leadership changes in order to further position the company for continued growth.The new appointments are effective January 19....
Jan 12 2017 // PwC has appointed Jim Bichard to lead its 1,000-person strong UK insurance practice. Bichard succeeds Jonathan Howe, who has led the practice since 2013.Bichard, who has led PwC’s London Market and Broking team since...
Jan 6 2017 // The ground crew leader for a Texas hot air balloon company involved in a 2015 deadly crash has been killed in a motorcycle accident.The Austin American-Statesman reports Alan Thomas Lirette was a key witness in the...
Jan 6 2017 // Integro Insurance Brokers, a New York headquartered international broker and risk management firm has appointed Deborah Morris as its New York operations leader.She succeeds Esther Ro, who is relocating to the West coast...
Dec 30 2016 // Anthony F. Markel, vice chairman of the board at the Markel Corporation will be honored by The Peter J. Tobin College of Business at St. John’s University as the School of Risk Management’s 2016 Insurance...
Dec 29 2016 // USI has named Jeff Lang practice leader for its Southern California commercial insurance division. Lang has more than 20 years of experience in property/casualty brokerage and five years as an insurance company and TPA...