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One team, one brand: Intact introduces North American specialty insurance brand | News

TORONTO, Oct. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Intact Financial Corporation (TSX: IFC) officially brings together its Canadian and U.S. specialty capabilities under a single brand: Intact Insurance Specialty Solutions. Unifying its specialty operations under one brand represents the full integration of this growing segment of Intact’s portfolio and its commitment to being a leader in the specialty lines marketplace.

“Our commitment to building a world-class specialty insurance provider takes an important step forward today as we bring the Intact brand to the U.S.,” said Charles Brindamour, Chief Executive Officer, Intact Financial Corporation. “We see strong future growth potential in our specialty lines business given our team’s expertise and our robust solutions for Canadian, cross-border and U.S. customers and brokers.”

The U.S. businesses had previously operated under the OneBeacon Insurance Group and The Guarantee Company of North America brands in the U.S., following the 2017 and 2019 acquisitions of these specialty companies, respectively.

“This is an exciting day for us in the U.S. and our teams in Canada, as we officially move forward as Intact Insurance Specialty Solutions,” added Mike Miller, President, U.S. Operations and Intact Insurance Specialty Solutions. “The entire North American specialty team looks forward to continuing to provide our customers and brokers with our hallmark specialized products and services, backed by the strength of the Intact brand.”

The combined Intact Insurance Specialty Solutions brand features over 20 specialty focus areas, including nine that serve both Canadian and U.S. customers. It is a market-leading provider of certain lines of business, including being the sixth largest provider of surety bonds in North America.

Intact Insurance Specialty Solutions’ underwriting companies offer a broad range of specialty insurance products through independent agencies, regional and national brokers, wholesalers and managing general agencies throughout North America. Each business is

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Saints vs. Chargers Betting

The New Orleans Saints (2-2) host the Los Angeles Chargers (1-3) during Week 5’s Monday Night Football with kickoff scheduled for 8:15 p.m. ET.

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business

GameStop and Microsoft team up to sell Xbox All Access at more than 5K GameStop retail locations

GameStop announced today a multi-year strategic partnership agreement with Microsoft. Under the terms of the deal, GameStop is now an authorized dealer for the Xbox All Access program, which provides an Xbox console and a 24-month pass for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for no cost upfront.

The agreement further involves what GameStop refers to as a “transformation,” where its individual stores will upgrade to take advantage of Microsoft’s suite of business applications and portable devices.

Now, when you walk into a GameStop store, the sales associates will be equipped with Surface tablets for searching purposes, working with Microsoft Teams, and running the back end with Microsoft’s cloud-based Dynamics 365 suite of applications. In fact, by the terms of the deal as written in GameStop’s press release, it looks less like a partnership and more like Microsoft is sponsoring GameStop as one would a softball team.

“For many years GameStop has been a strong go-to market partner for our gaming products, and we are excited about continuing and evolving that relationship for the launch of the Xbox Series X|S,” Microsoft Xbox chief Phil Spencer said in a statement. “GameStop’s extensive store base, focus on digital transformation in an omni-channel environment and expert gamer associates remain an important part of our gaming ecosystem, and we’re pleased to elevate our partnership.”

The Xbox Series S, left, and the Xbox Series X. (Microsoft Photos)

News of the deal caused GameStop shares to jump 21%, which is enough to qualify this as the first good news that GameStop has received in quite some time. While GameStop is still the single largest video game retailer in the world, with more than 5,000 retail stores worldwide, it was seen as being on a downward spiral even before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This is,

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insurance

NelsonHall Expands Global Analyst Team as Demand for Insurance, Healthcare & Pharma Market Insight Grows

BOSTON, LONDON and PARIS, Oct. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — NelsonHall, the leading global analyst firm dedicated to helping organizations understand the ‘art of the possible’ in digital operations transformation, is delighted to appoint two new analysts in response to growing demand for business process services insight in the insurance, healthcare & life sciences, and pharmaceuticals sectors. These industries are becoming increasingly important in the current climate, and are undergoing major operational change, which is driving the need for deeper and more focused guidance on how organizations can transform their operations to thrive now and into the future.

Alisa Samoylova, based in London, has a background in scientific research and biotechnology, and also in procurement. After her initial assignment looking at procurement transformation, Alisa will focus on the pharma sector, starting with a major study of vendor capability from an operational perspective.

Ashley Singleton, based in Houston, is an experienced health insurance product development manager and business planning analyst, and will focus on healthcare payer and provider, as well as the wider insurance sector. Her initial assignment will be a major study of healthcare payer transformation.

These key appointments are the latest additions to NelsonHall’s global team, which is expanding in response to market demand for its unique brand of rigorous and insightful research and advice. John Willmott, NelsonHall’s CEO, said “I’m delighted to welcome Alisa and Ashley to our global analyst team, which is continuing to grow as organizations look for primary fact-based analysis that cuts through the market confusion. Now more than ever, organizations need to be able to see beyond the hype and soundbites to understand what’s really happening within their industry and how best to navigate these challenging times.”

About NelsonHall:

NelsonHall is the leading global analyst firm dedicated

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business

Everybody Wants a Trusted Team

In 2012 Google launched project Aristotle with a mission to understand what creates exceptional teams. We all know that more diverse teams perform better and that it is important to have smart people, but is that total of the secret to success? Google discovered that the greatest predictor of team success was actually a characteristic known as psychological safety. As Harvard’s Amy Edmondson wrote in her paper, psychological safety is: “a sense of confidence that the team will not embarrass, reject or punish someone for speaking up,” Meaning, even if you are on a team and you say something stupid or screw up, you wont be punished or alienated.

All too often, employees are scared of sharing their ideas or speaking up if something is wrong, or doesn’t make sense. The issue is magnified when it goes against what management is saying. So rather than get in trouble or lose their jobs, employees stay quiet. When the company culture instills a sense of fear in their employees, it may produce a temporary increase in results. After all, Wells Fargo was doing great thanks to managers pressuring employees to open and close millions of fraudulent bank accounts.

Unsurprisingly, in the long term these practices are incredibly destructive, and the company saw huge fines and a terrible hit to their brand and stock when the scandal came to light in late 2016. On the other hand, organizations that have higher levels of psychological safety and comradery, not only perform better in groups, but on any metric of a successful organization especially in the long term, including profitability and stock value.

We all know that we need to have our teams and employees feel safe, but how do we actually accomplish this? The answer lies in the strange process known as a vulnerability

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GameStop and Microsoft team up to sell Xbox All Access at more than 5K GameStop retail locations

NelsonHall Expands Global Analyst Team as Demand for Insurance, Healthcare & Pharma Market Insight Grows

Everybody Wants a Trusted Team