How many times have you applied for a leadership role only to be rejected due to lack of leadership experience? There’s nothing more frustrating than when you’re kicking butt in your job, you love it and know that you’ll be an amazing manager once you get that promotion, you can’t wait to get others as excited about the role as you are, but you can’t seem to get the go-ahead from management.
When and whether a vehicle involved in a collision is considered “totaled” for first-party insurance purposes is an issue of great angst and confusion for most consumers. We hear horror stories of older but functioning vehicles being “totaled” simply due to a bent frame or other seemingly minor or even hidden damage.
In recent years, efforts to promote diversity and inclusion in insurance and other industries have become increasingly structuralized, hardwired into most companies’ business models.
The coronavirus outbreak has provided a textbook example of just how complicated insurance can be. Businesses around the world, especially those that deal heavily with China, are desperately trying to work out whether they can file successful business interruption claims for losses in revenue tied to the public health crisis.
The current insurance industry is in a quasi-crisis in terms of talent. Over the next couple of years, there will be a mass exodus of legacy insurance professionals which will create a vacuum that must be filled by young talent. The talent gap stats have been blasted all over insurance articles so I will refrain from regurgitating that data here as the point of this article is deeper than statistical analysis.
We’re in the thick of planning our 2020 Annual Conference next month in Dallas, and I’m personally very excited about our CCO Mini-Summit and several Annual Conference sessions on the hot topic of nuclear verdicts. Just like our Litigation Management Symposium last year, our focus on the nuclear verdict topic and the formation of a working group to tackle education on this issue was the idea brought to us by our membership.
The National Transportation Safety Board says the driver of a Tesla SUV who died in a Silicon Valley crash two years ago was playing a video game on his smartphone while his vehicle was being controlled by a partially automated driving system.
This may come as a shock: The corporate world is full of ill-mannered maniacs. Not you, obviously, nor me (usually), but just about everyone else. People appear to abandon all restraint the moment they arrive at work.
Mid-sized and luxury sports cars are the most collision-prone vehicles on the road, including the Hyundai Sonata, Infinity Q50, Lexus GS 350, and the Acura TLX, according to new research by QuoteWizard.com, an online insurance comparison platform.
In many parts of the U.S., like it or not, snow and ice are absolutes this time of year, creating conditions that can be dangerous to walk through, drive in, and remove. Regardless of local laws, the removal of snow and ice is necessary to keep businesses running.
Nationwide has announced a partnership with Toyota Insurance Management Solutions (TIMS) to launch a new telematics-powered insurance solution that will lead to more savings for customers.
Leaders who are intentional about building a collaborative culture will unleash the full capabilities of their team. If you are a manager, when was the last time that you remember someone on your team asking for help?
A man drove his Jeep off the top of a six-level parking garage and landed across the street on a McDonald’s in Santa Monica, California, authorities said Sunday. The 20-year-old driver from Twentynine Palms, California, "while injured, was conscious, suffering and speaking with officers when they arrived" shortly after midnight, according to a press release from the Santa Monica Police Department.
As the risk management function becomes even more critical for today’s businesses, risk managers find themselves involved in making decisions that affect nearly every aspect of an organization’s physical, financial, and reputational health.
