Leadership & Strategy
Reinsurers Least Successful Acquirers in Industry M&A: Analysis
A recently released analysis of insurance carrier and reinsurer mergers and acquisitions finds that 75% of recent deals featuring reinsurers and multiline insurers as buyers destroyed value for ...
From Volatility to Value: How Carriers Can Build Durable Growth
Growth has returned to the boardroom agenda for insurers, but this time under far less forgiving conditions.
Softening property and ...
Four Moves That Will Keep Midsize Mutuals Competitive
Mutual insurers have always done something the industry at-large can't: They've put discipline and policyholder trust at the center of the business.
Here's an uncomfortable truth: the same user-centered design practices that built Apple, Google, Amazon and their peers into companies collectively worth over $10 ...
Leave it to Me: Overconfident CEOs Less Likely to Delegate M&A Work
A new study finds overconfident CEOs are less likely to delegate responsibilities to underlings, particularly in settings that involve complex transactions – such as hammering out the details of ...
More Insurance M&A Deals on the Horizon?
Two firms tracking mergers and acquisitions in the insurance industry reported changes in property/casualty insurance deals last year, with one describing "increased momentum" and another ...
Verisk, APCIA See ‘Reset’ Rather Than New Normal in Stellar ’25 Results
In a joint report of U.S. property/casualty insurance industry financial results yesterday, Verisk and the American Property Casualty Insurance Association revealed the same eye-popping level of ...
‘Too Much Space,’ Says State Farm CEO on Shuttering Corporate HQ
State Farm will be moving 13,000 of its 62,000 employees who now work in its Corporate Headquarters and the Illinois Operations Center in Bloomington, Ill., to another location— Corporate ...
Everest Sells Another Retail Commercial Insurance Op: Canada Biz Going to Wawanesa
Everest Group, Ltd. ("Everest") announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Canadian Retail Insurance operations, Everest Insurance Company of Canada ("Everest Canada"), to The ...
The Trillion-Dollar Gap: How User-Centered Design Built Tech’s Giants—and Why Insurance Must Follow