A View From The Press Box

For two years now, I’ve been telling anyone who’ll listen that the industry’s lousy reputation is, for the most part, undeserved, and that carriers must take ownership of the problem and start touting all the good they do for society.  Then along came Bob Hartwig’s recent speech at the 50th anniversary celebration of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, which pointed out that insurers don’t get enough credit for all the lives they save and injuries they help people avoid.

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The latest sequel in the “Saw” movie series channels the public’s wrath against health insurers by targeting those in claims for its slice and dice genre–yet another example of how pop culture continues to capitalize on the industry’s poor reputation. Read the rest of this entry »

Commercial insurers wondering what they need to do to attract and hang onto their customers got an earful from the 411 buyers responding to open-ended questions about what they want from their carriers, as part of the first Risk Manager Choice Awards survey, conducted by the Flaspöhler Research Group in partnership with National Underwriter. Read the rest of this entry »

The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies and FM Global were the big winners in the first “Risk Manager Choice Awards,” based on a survey of 411 corporate insurance buyers run by the Flaspöhler Research Group, in partnership with National Underwriter. For a full report, go to http://bit.ly/392FyL.