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MGAs: An All-Weather Distribution Channel for Soft and Hard Markets
Many reinsurers across the globe increasingly have been doing business with certain select managing general agents (MGAs), seen as market innovators, by reinsuring the fronting insurers that provide ...
MGAs Demonstrate Continuing Value in a Hardening Market
The heightened perception of risk stemming from cyber attacks, the climate, pandemics and even inflation are just a few of the volatile factors fueling a demand-side need for more specialized ...
Know Your Priorities: A Key Step in Effective Planning
We've all lamented the times when we acted impulsively. The expression "Ready, fire, aim!" comes to mind. Unfortunately, many of us use this approach in handling our work and our days. This ...
What Does an Ideal Strategic Planning Process Look Like?
It's coming up on that time of year when the kids head back to school and summer activities and vacations are winding down. It's time to settle in for the last push to year end. In the life of a ...
Conquering Complex Supply Chains
Supply chain. The unprecedented disruptions of the past few years have made "supply chain" a household word—because nearly every household in the world has been affected by the shortages of goods ...
Truly Transformative Tech: Hype vs. Results
As digitization across the insurance industry accelerates, it can be tempting for insurers to jump on the proverbial bandwagon and devote resources to every new technology that promises fundamental ...
Pesticides: The New Pharma?
Fen-phen, Baycol, Rezulin, Vioxx… The 1990s and 2000s saw a tidal wave of pharmaceutical-related litigation that dominated the agenda of the plaintiffs' bar. Mass torts over the negative health ...
Viewpoint: The Connection Between Celebrations and a Strong Culture
What will draw employees to work and keep them engaged? If your organization is wrestling with that question, you're not alone. Insurers — like many other industries — are struggling to retain ...