All the headlines from our Productivity Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 31 2017 // Digital technologies can be harnessed by the re/insurance industry to narrow insurance protection gaps in developing and emerging markets, thereby improving societal resilience after natural disasters, according to a...
Jan 9 2017 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...
Jan 9 2017 // No South Central state had the best score and none had the worst in a report recently released by a conservative-leaning research organization that annually assesses the effectiveness states’ insurance regulatory...
Dec 22 2016 // No South Central state had the best score and none had the worst in a report recently released by a conservative-leaning research organization that annually assesses the effectiveness states’ insurance regulatory...
Dec 22 2016 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...
Dec 19 2016 // Anthem Inc. and the U.S. Justice Department extended their clash over whether the insurer’s planned takeover of rival Cigna Corp. will raise costs, as government witnesses testified Friday that the deal will harm...
Oct 14 2016 // A new regulation that will force U.S. trucking companies to electronically log employee hours is designed to limit accidents by keeping tired drivers off the road.It may also drive smaller trucking firms out of business. A...
Feb 28 2016 // Warren Buffett reaches a broad audience with his annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway Inc. shareholders — and, on Saturday, he reached right out to U.S. voters.In sweeping passages, he rejected the economic pessimism...
Dec 7 2015 // The holiday season is upon us. People are busy shopping, celebrating and just relaxing with the family. What better time to see how the business has performed during 2015.For those people who think there is always room for...
Sep 7 2015 // For the U.S., property/casualty industry recent events have mimicked the boxing idiom one, two punch. P/C industry professionals haven’t seen a combination of an underwriting cycle and an investment environment quite...
Aug 17 2015 // Fellow agents, Insurance Journal readers, experts, educators, marketing professionals, along with Theodore Roosevelt, Steve Jobs, Zig Ziglar, CNBC’s Kelly Evans, Harvard Business Review and Fortune magazine have been...
Jul 15 2015 // Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) Australia, a subsidiary of the London-based insurance, reinsurance and employee benefits firm, has deployed NetSuite OpenAir cloud professional services automation (PSA) solution to run the...
Jul 6 2015 // This is the age of big data. The concept is to collect all kinds of data and then use various statistical techniques, usually some sophisticated form of regression analysis, to identify correlations between the data,...
Mar 26 2015 // Agency employees are not happy when it comes to compensation, and money isn’t the problem.Despite increases in salaries and total compensation, many employees continue to be unsatisfied when it comes to overall...
Mar 9 2015 // Revenue per employee has historically been the measuring stick for staffing and employee efficiency within independent insurance agencies. The industry average revenue per employee continues to show improvement. But,...
Feb 23 2015 // Agency employees are not happy when it comes to compensation, and money isn’t the problem.Despite some reported increases in salaries and total compensation, many employees continue to be unsatisfied when it comes to...
Oct 2 2014 // San Francisco, CA, October 2, 2014– Paper-based document management systems are inefficient — insurance agencies are stuck with incomplete forms, increased NIGO errors and lost revenue from extended cycle times...
Sep 5 2014 // Ohio workers are more productive and better educated these days, yet they aren’t necessarily making more money as a result, according to a new report.Ohio productivity grew by nearly 67 percent between 1979 and 2013,...
May 29 2014 // American International Group Inc., the largest commercial insurer in the U.S. and Canada, is shifting workers to locations including the Philippines and Texas to reduce costs.“We’re talking several thousand...
Mar 20 2014 // Energi, a Massachusetts-based industrial reinsurance company, which provides risk management and insurance programs for the energy industry, announced that it will provide an Energy Savings Warranty (ESW) for the Toronto...