With much of the property/casualty insurance industry’s attention focused on external threats from insurtechs and digital native companies, perhaps the greatest disruption is coming from within. Following the past decade of impressive growth driven by direct-to-consumer providers, Progressive heads into …
How People Rationalize Bad Choices When a reward is tempting enough, people will break their own moral codes to gain the desired prize. Afterward, they’ll tell you exactly how they were justified: “It wasn’t as if anyone was harmed,” “I …
Hang that laminated list on the wall in your office at your job, and your next job, and your next job… I once worked in an agency where there was a broker who pre-stamped on every single Acord application “No …
Here we go again — another cycle for having marketing representatives, or not. Let’s talk about the way it was and the way it is now. Actually, what was and what is now is basically the same as far as …
A new form of online bribery is emerging where cyber criminals attempt to extort cryptocurrency by claiming to have potentially embarrassing evidence of people using adult websites on work computers, according to a report issued by Beazley Breach Response (BBR) …
It may be obvious when people get injured at work, but it may not always be apparent when people acquire infections resulting from exposures at work. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) reviewed infectious disease investigations in …
There were 63 insurtech investment deals worth nearly $1.6 billion in the 2018 fourth quarter, according to a new Willis Towers Watson report. That’s a 24 percent jump in deal count compared to the 2017 fourth quarter, and funding volume …
Patricia Ross, Raphael Strumlauf and Kate DeNeveu each have at least one thing in common: They’re generally happy with their business insurance. Each owns a business at the downtown pedestrian mall in Charlottesville, Va. They’re all in their early 30s …
Federal transportation officials are requiring railroads to establish regional response teams along oil train routes following a series of fiery derailments. The new rule is aimed at having crews and equipment ready in the event of an accident. It applies …
More States Supplementing Digital with Plastic Millions of people may be able to show their smartphones rather than a plastic card to prove they’re legit to drive, vote or buy a beer in coming years. Louisiana in July became the …
