All the headlines from our Marketing Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 18 2020 // Arch Reinsurance, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bermuda-based Arch Capital Group Ltd., announced it has entered into an agreement in principle to obtain a majority stake in Precision Marketing Asia Pacific (PMAP), subject...
Feb 10 2020 // 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 insurer’s Q4 2019...
Feb 10 2020 // As we embark upon a new decade, the surplus lines insurance market has never been stronger. Growth in specialty products and demand for insurance protection in an increasingly dynamic, technological climate necessitates a...
Feb 6 2020 // The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) announced that it has served a statement of charges against the National Rifle Association (NRA).The Department alleges that the NRA, which does not have a license to...
Jan 9 2020 // Arizona’s attorney general on this week sued e-cigarette giant Juul Labs for alleged violations of state consumer fraud laws, becoming the latest state to go after the company as youth vaping explodes.Attorney...
Jan 7 2020 // Commercial property/casualty and professional liability insurer Philadelphia Insurance Companies announced leadership changes, effective January 1, 2020.President and Chief Executive Officer Bob O’Leary has become...
Dec 23 2019 // Bill Roberts, GEICO’s president and chief executive officer, has announced that he will retire in December 2020 after 35 years with the insurer. Replacing Roberts as CEO will be Todd Combs, one of Berkshire...
Dec 19 2019 // If gawking at tons of cannabis-churning pieces of agricultural equipment winding around a quarter-million feet of convention floor space wasn’t your thing, perhaps access to an abundance of pre-rolls, or whiffing...
Dec 13 2019 // Family members of nine children and educators killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre have received a September 2021 trial date in their landmark lawsuit against Remington Arms Co. over its marketing of...
Dec 10 2019 // Minor League Baseball (MiLB) and insurer Nationwide have a new partnership making the Columbus, Ohio-based carrier the “Official Insurance Partner of Minor League Baseball.”Financial terms of the agreement were...
Nov 24 2019 // If Bill Pieroni were a Major League Baseball executive, he would be one of those sabermetric types like Oakland’s Billy Beane, heralded by the book “Moneyball.” His team’s manager would have...
Nov 21 2019 // The Central Insurance Companies have promoted David Lee to vice president of the Southeast regional office, effective November 25, 2019.Lee will replace Senior Vice President Keith Moore who will retire on November 22,...
Nov 20 2019 // Specialty insurer Tokio Marine HCC announced that Jeremy Barnett and Phelim Browne have been named co-global marketing leaders, effective Oct. 1, 2019, reporting to Thomas Harmeyer, executive vice president.Barnett, based...
Nov 20 2019 // Next Insurance, a digital insurtech company focused on small business insurance, has appointed today former Fitbit executive Melanie Chase as chief marketing officer and former Yelp executive Effi Fuks Leichtag as chief...
Nov 18 2019 // The workforce is faced with a generation gap. Baby boomers are retiring at the rate of 10,000 per day. Generation X and millennials each have a smaller pool of people than baby boomers. Generation Z is now the largest...
Nov 6 2019 // NIP Group Inc., a Woodbridge, N.J.-headquartered program manager providing marketing, underwriting and administration of specialty insurance programs, has hired John Bertoli as senior vice president of Marketing. In this...
Nov 5 2019 // The San Francisco startup that invented the groundbreaking Juul e-cigarette had a central goal during its development: captivating users with the first hit.The company had concluded that consumers had largely rejected...
Oct 25 2019 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Direct Connection Advertising & Marketing has named Kristen Nevins director of marketing and operations. Nevins joined the firm in 2018. She was previously at Scottsdale Insurance Co. (now...
Oct 23 2019 // The man behind Nationwide’s “On Your Side” advertising and marketing for the past five years, along with initiatives targeting emerging businesses and innovation, is leaving the giant insurer.Terrance...
Sep 24 2019 // When the medical community makes mistakes, it’s like shooting down a few hundred airplanes every year. That’s a dramatic metaphor that has stuck in my mind since I first heard it from a doctor, and an apt way...