What Can You Do If You're Being Quietly Fired?
Your performance goals are either nonexistent or unreasonable. Your reviews are negative without a clear path for improvement. You're being denied opportunities for ...
Talent in the P/C Insurance Industry 2023
Last year saw a wave of InsurTech layoffs, and established carriers faced a different set of problems associated with voluntary talent turnover. In this edition, Deputy Editor Elizabeth Blosfield speaks to InsurTech professionals directly impacted by layoffs and HSCM Ventures Partner Adrian Jones puts some numbers around InsurTech employment attrition.
In other articles, our editors report on how incumbents are handling flexible work arrangements, the “quiet firing” trend and the only insurer to make Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work List.
Bonus Content: Where Are They Now? CM catches up with executives who appeared on past covers as part of the publication’s 10-year anniversary celebration.
In This Issue
Cover Story: Talent in the P/C Insurance Industry
You've Been Laid Off. Now What? Navigating InsurTech's Workforce Transformation
Economic uncertainty, coupled with a period of transition in InsurTech, has led to a wave of layoffs for the industry. For InsurTech employees worried about potential ...
Workplace Flexibility Key in Capturing Competitive Edge
Ira Ziff recruited the perfect CFO for the job. The candidate checked all the boxes for a small-town insurer Ziff works with as president of Precision Research Group. The ...
'Inside-Out' Branding: How One P/C Insurer Made Glassdoor's Best Places to Work List
There are a lot of experiences that Branch Insurance Co-Founder Steve Lekas took away from his 17 years working in the property/casualty insurance industry that shaped ...
Leadership Tips: Manage Your Managers to Avoid 'Quiet Firing'
Some managers deal with disengaged employees head-on, discussing the problem, offering solutions and assistance, and detailing the consequences if the situation doesn't ...
Assessing InsurTechs' Greatest Value to the Industry: Talent
The biggest contribution of InsurTech to the insurance industry may well be talent—technology talent, insurance talent, just raw talent.
The Perfect Storm: How Insurers Can Weather a Talent, Skills Gap
As older generations of employees are retiring from the workforce and younger generations are resigning in search of lifestyle or career changes, insurance carriers are facing a big challenge of ...
Looking Ahead
What to Expect: 7 InsurTech Predictions for 2023
The year 2022 was not kind to the publicly traded InsurTechs. But beyond that smokescreen, new and growing InsurTechs continue to drive innovation. Here are seven trends ...
Executive Profile
The Waves of Innovation in InsurTech: Reflections From a First Wave Startup Co-Founder
The world of InsurTech has changed dramatically since 2015, when I teamed up with my MIT classmate, Rashmi Melgiri, to found CoverWallet. Our goal was to reinvent ...
Google's Champion of Holistic Insurance: Karna's Journey Continues
Like many people who have met Dr. Henna Karna, Google's general manager of Global Industry Solutions in Insurance, Reinsurance and Risk Management, it's hard for a ...
Where Are They Now?
Have you ever wondered what happened to the people who appeared on Carrier Management covers in the years since we profiled them? We sure ...
Not Your Everyday CEO: Reversal of Fortune Again
Louis Ziskin is a born entrepreneur. Possessed of a keen mind, nimble tongue and an ability to perceive financial opportunities where others retreat from the risks, his ...
InsurTech Profiles
Branch Insurance Sprouts From Roots of Asking Why
"Ask Why. It's how we learn new skills, grow as a team, and invent. Without asking 'why?' we'd never get to the deeper understanding needed to create ...
InsurTech Tackles Underserved Homeowners Market: Uninformed Buyers
Ian Gutterman doesn't think there's any underserved market of people who need cheap insurance. "There's plenty of that available," says ...
Birth of a Unicorn: How Branch's Founders Turned Noes Into Yeses
Like most startups, the founders of unicorn Branch faced some early setbacks. In a word, the process was "intense," according to Steve ...
Leadership and Management
'Bring Your Whole Self to Work': How Insurance Leaders Can Realize the Promise
The drive to attract, retain and develop the best talent means diversity and inclusion is a key driver and often portrayed as the centerpiece of company culture for many in the insurance profession. ...
CEO Reflections: Thoughts on Long-Term Leadership
I was initially hesitant when asked to share my thoughts on leadership. A quick Google search will yield thousands of entries—books, ...
How Carriers Can Meet Strategic Goals During Inflationary Times
At the dawn of the 2020s just over three years ago, no one, including property/casualty executives, thought a pandemic would sweep the globe. The disruptions caused by ...
How Did You Make Them Feel?
Maya Angelou, the renowned poet, author and civil rights activist, understood the power of emotions and the lasting impact they can have on individuals. In her quote, ...
Risk Alerts
We Insured FTX
Late last year, the leader of a Bermuda insurance company specializing in coverage for emerging sectors, including the digital asset ecosystem and companies working in ...
How Is Your Food Processed? An 'Emerging Damage' Risk
I am old enough to have been taught the four basic food groups in elementary school and the importance of eating some from each of the groups no matter how much I might ...
FTX Liability Tentacles Spread Far
As the spectacle knowingly or unwittingly orchestrated by Sam Bankman-Fried, cofounder of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading and cryptocurrency trading firm ...
6 Emerging Risks to Watch: From Glacial Floods to More Destructive Wildfires
In this edition of Risk Alerts, we highlight toxins in children's makeup, glacial floods, pollution's impact on mental health, wildfires, food addiction and ...
From the Editor
Rounding a Corner With Insurance Talent
One of my favorite places to visit when I'm in Manhattan is Hudson River Park. The waterfront pathway bends in several spots, and with the right timing, you can catch ...