Students are still seeking risk management and insurance positions, but they have expectations of their employers. Namely, they want to pursue versatile roles where they can apply diverse skill sets throughout their career.
Risk & Insurance sat down with Giovanni Smyth to learn more about how Insurance Consulting & Technology helps its partners become more efficient and find new ways to deliver value to customers throughout the insurance life cycle.
James Needham of Aon shares what it’s like to broker in the traditional energy sector, how renewable energy can work in tandem with traditional energy and what 2024 holds for the space.
First-year renewable energy insurer names chief underwriting officer, NAIC selects its officers for 2024, Utah-based PCF insurance promotes new CEO and more.
Economic uncertainty, rising claim costs and an increase in weather-driven losses aren’t exactly the market trends that we’d have selected to take with us into the coming year, had we been given the option. However, it looks like these are the conditions that we will be stuck with for a while. As 2023 draws to… View Article
Brokering in trucking takes real “salt of the earth” people to understand the complexities and the challenges this industry faces. HUB International’s Dain Dockter strives to be just that.
“Insurtechs are particularly guilty of talking to other startups and telling each other how amazing they are, when they should be learning the vocabulary of the people buying their products — insurance companies — and trying to explain their offerings to them.”
Despite the growing interest, United Educators has not seen an increase in animal-related claims. Over the last 13 years, it has only had 10 claims related to emotional support animals, service dogs or pets across its 1,600 members.
HUB International adds an academic luminary in an advisory position, Unison Risk Advisors welcomes a military veteran and more in this edition of People on the Move.
“Insured pays carrier, carrier pays commission. But there are these simultaneous loops always running and all of those systems are disparate. And as a result, all of those points of contact create friction, and friction is being dealt with by people today.”
As we continue to broaden our perspective on the ways to treat injury and illness, let’s not forget the powers of unconventional and complementary medicines.
The USDA has selected 22 organizations to receive $6.5 million to educate underserved, small-scale and organic producers on farm risk management and climate-smart farm practices.
For more than 350 years, the insurance model has been simple: Repair and replace after damage. However, with modern technology, we can now help our customers before they face loss. I recently joined the leaders of two preeminent insurance research organizations — Roy Wright of the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) and… View Article