Spotlight Interview
Judge Quashes Bid By Ex-AIG CEO Greenberg to Dismiss Civil Suit
A New York state judge has rejected a request by Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, the former American International Group Inc chief executive officer, to dismiss a long-running civil lawsuit by the state's ...
Markel’s Michael Crowley: Former Broker COO Deepening Carrier Sales Culture
Michael Crowley had been in the chief operating role of property/casualty insurance organizations for nearly two decades when he signed on to be an executive for Markel Corp. in 2009. But for all of ...
From the Front Lines to the C-Suite: Farmers’ David Travers
When he was taking policyholder phone calls as a customer representative for a direct writing carrier 26 years ago, David Travers did not have designs on a position in the C-suite of an agency ...
Endurance Specialty’s Catherine Kalaydjian: Thriving With Change
Just six months after John Charman took the reins of Endurance Specialty Holdings in May 2013, he announced to the investor community that the management team had been completely restructured. In ...
RLI’s Michael Stone: Managing People Is the Key to COO Role
"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…" With apologies to Rudyard Kipling, you might finish that sentence with the phrase "you can be the chief operating officer of a ...
Does Your Company Need a COO?
Some P/C insurance companies have chief operating officers; some have more than one. Others have chief operations officers. All are C-suite positions. But does every carrier actually need a leader of ...
Beyond a Sense of Humor: What Does It Take to Lead P/C Operations?
When Carrier Management interviewed three chief operating officers and two chief operations officers of property/casualty insurance companies recently, all five said a sense of humor was one of the ...
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Emerges as Serious Player in 2013
The year 2013 has been quite eventful for Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI)—or half of a year, anyway. Since opening its doors for business in June with much fanfare, the new venture ...