Content from Susanne Sclafane
What’s Ailing Zurich Insurance?
Change is underway to reshape some ailing General Insurance business at Zurich Insurance Group, according to the new chief executive for the unit, who described a corrective focus on profitability ...
Want Your Work and Life in Balance? Take a Long-Term View, Exec Coach Says
Taking a long-term view of things isn't just good advice for liability insurers writing long-tail casualty business. It also makes sense of property/casualty managers and executives who feel as if ...
‘We Start Businesses Instead of Buying Them,’ Berkley Says in Last Call as CEO
William R. Berkley's last earnings conference call as chief executive officer of the company that bears his name lasted just over 20 minutes, with a lack of questions about a less-eventful quarter ...
TransRe: Where Reinsurance Is Job 1
As a pure reinsurer, TransRe stands apart from hybrids that combine both primary insurance and reinsurance in their operating models. And that's a situation that CEO Michael Sapnar expects to ...
Knowledge Gaps and Convergence
Insurers covered $500 billion in catastrophe losses in the last 10 years. That huge number appears in Swiss Re's recent sigma report, "Underinsurance of Property Risks: Closing the Gap." It's hardly ...
Arch Capital: Growing the Hard Way
In spite of rumors swirling around Bermuda companies about potential mergers and acquisitions, Mark Lyons, chief financial officer of Arch Capital Group Ltd., said his company, a specialty insurer ...
Is the Insurance Industry Going to the Origami Dogs—or Their Creators?
An unhappy customer arrives at the office of an insurance company executive by limousine to discuss concerns about the company's service. The scenario may not seem typical unless you're the CEO of an ...
Corporate ‘Giga’ Losses: An Avenue for P/C Premium Growth and Relevance
Opportunities for premium growth and for greater relevance are waiting to be tapped by insurers willing and able to cover corporate "giga losses" and take shares of U.S. mortgage credit risks, ...