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Roger Crombie is a United Kingdom-based columnist for Risk & Insurance®. He can be reached at [email protected]
Just when you think you’ve managed to escape the world of insurance, a quick glance through your everyday motions will remind you of the industry’s ripple effect.
Columnist Roger Crombie often takes this space to speak on insurance. Today, he’s letting a few other familiar voices do the talking.
There are at least 667 songs out there that mention insurance. As you would expect, many of them do not flatter the industry.
The car rental agency advised that, as of his next birthday, Roger Crombie would be so old that “The Insurance” would not let him rent a car ever again. So he bought one.
The image of the insurer has changed little since even the 1960s. They remain among the slightly-less-reviled big business practitioners.
A misleading TV advertisement for excess insurance reminds us to read between the lines when language is vague.
How one executive got his fellow board members, employees and coworkers to conform to his methods of efficiency.
The true story of trailblazing, claims negotiations, and the wisest woman in the world.
Someone decided on the term ‘social inflation’ when in fact, it’s just the opposite of social.
Telematics bring promise of innovation to the insurance industry, whether you want it or not.
Last fall, 181 CEO members of Business Roundtable met and agreed that company priorities should be focused on customers, and then to employees, suppliers and shareholders — in that order.
For insurers to sell policies covering conduct risk, they’ll need a fairly clear understanding of what constitutes misconduct — no easy feat.
To protect people, companies and their interests insurers must out-think terrorists, hackers and other people trying to do harm.
What single activity would you say is the biggest time-waster at work? The office bore, droning on about last night’s TV show that you didn’t watch? Email? Smoking breaks?
Insurer SpottedRisk has come up with a way to determine how deplorable a celebrity might be to a movie maker’s budget — and has created a policy to cover such risk.
Terrorists target major cities more often than small towns, but given the unpredictability of violence, should suburban areas be more alert?
Common stereotypes about poets and insurers suggest the two passions don’t mix, but they have more in common than you’d think.
Why do we attend RIMS each year? In insurance terms: reputational risk.
Chances are you have a tidy-ish desk (and mind). It’s no coincidence if you’ve also done better in your career than those working in chaotic surroundings.
You can’t insure against the second most significant risk, which is existential risk. (But think of the annual premiums if you could.)
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