A Room With a View: Sometimes, the difference between saying and doing can speak volumes. That's something John Beckman has realized as chief risk officer for CNA Financial ...
A Room With a View: Time to Leave: It's the kind of career-changing moment that Walter Smiechewicz hopes will happen only once. Three years ago, Smiechewicz was the senior managing director of ...
Coming Back to Life: All kinds of financial services companies have been impacted by the global economic crisis. But if there is one subset of these businesses that has weathered ...
ERM Redux: What may ring as a familiar tune at this month's Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc. annual conference is by no means coincidental. Risk managers ...
Insight: Age of Analytics: Data is essential to most insurance company functions, and it is a business imperative to understand, manage, and protect this critical resource. The 21st ...
Insight: Economic Capital Meets the Real World: We recently have witnessed unprecedented financial market turmoil.At the same time, many North American insurers have been implementing "economic capital" ...
Insight: It's Time to Abandon Two Misconceptions: The current financial crisis should prompt us to abandon two misconceptions that are prevalent in our industry. The first is that one can effectively manage ...
Insight: Rolling With the Punches: The recent turbulence in the economy and financial markets, along with the loss of confidence in financial institutions, presents a combination of challenges ...
Insight: Safety Factors: Volatile financial markets are having a significant effect on many organizations' operations, income statements and balance sheets. For larger casualty ...
Insight: Trust, Transparency And Technology: Did you ever hear somebody say consumers aren't interested in insurance? Did you, in turn, then ask: How do you know? This is not the only myth about ...
Insight: Who's Really on First Base?: The cast of characters in Abbott and Costello's classic "Who's on First" routine includes "Who" on first base, "What" on second base and "I Don't Know" on ...
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Last Word: Rated R (Risky): It's not an official Academy Award category, but if it were, the award for the Riskiest Movie to Underwrite would probably go to The Wrestler, according to ...
Let's Talk: Insurance companies are under unprecedented pressure from market forces and increasing governmental regulatory scrutiny. The current economic downturn is ...
Let's Talk: Tweet Success: Streamlining transactional work flow is only one part of managing a distributed team of agents. Another important part is making sure agents have a strong ...
Missing Persons: In the next 10 minutes, nearly 500 Americans will become disabled, according to the National Safety Council. Added to that, each day, four of every 150 ...
Missing Persons: Firsthand Account: Mutual of Omaha is putting absence management to the test for its own employees. Its coordinated absence management process tracks short-term disability, ...
Net Worth: The Internet has proven to be a wonderful marketing tool for personal lines property/casualty insurers and agents. Geico, Progressive, Esurance, State Farm ...
Risking the Enterprise: The dramatic falls of Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and American International Group have many saying that these failures demonstrate enterprise risk ...
Talent Agents: The search for talent goes on, even in a recession. Insurance recruiters are facing a tough market. Many carriers are postponing filling management positions ...
Talent Agents: Employment View from the U.K.: As the credit crunch creates uncertainty over the future of employment in banking and financial services, the London insurance market is likely to retain an ...
Taming the Compliance Monster: Compiling and filing reports required by departments of motor vehicles, industry bureaus and data collection organizations is an increasingly difficult, ...
Taming the Compliance Monster: Compliance Headaches: Department of Motor Vehicle Reporting Many state DMVs require auto insurers to send a paper, tape, disk or electronic data interchange transaction once the ...
The Big Picture: Given the recent volatility in the capital markets and the consequent, adverse developments across the financial services industry, many interested parties ...
The Right Prescription: Investors have been hurt by last fall's stock market meltdown. Many are still reeling from the speed and depth of the decline. Annuity writers have felt ...
What the Doctor E-Ordered: Each year medication errors claim the lives of nearly 7,000 individuals, resulting in nearly $77 billion in costs, according to the Institute of ...
