Leslie Scism is a News Editor at The Wall Street Journal. She specializes in reporting on hurricanes, insurance, and market trends, with a keen focus on major players like Allstate and AIG. Leslie's work has also been featured in Yahoo Finance and MarketWatch.
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Leslie Scism's coverage predominantly centers around finance, particularly within the insurance sector, with a specific emphasis on data-driven insights and investment analysis. She is likely to be responsive to pitches that offer in-depth analyses of financial trends within the insurance industry, focusing on topics such as premium changes, market performances of major companies like AIG or Allstate.
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Allstate Chief Executive Tom Wilson says consumers should buckle up and prepare for yet more auto-insurance rate increases. “We have not seen moderating cost inflation,” he said in an interview after the company'
By: Leslie Scism
American International Group Inc. reported improved profit margins in its core property-casualty unit and rising sales of some products, which were offset by the effects of volatile markets and severe winter weather.
By: Leslie Scism
Longtime policyholders accuse companies of wrongly trying improve financial results at their expense.
By: Leslie Scism
Regulators are pushing back on the use of data science to speed up cumbersome application processes.
By: Leslie Scism, Mark Maremont, Christopher Capozziello
Holders of annuities totaling $2.2 billion can’t touch their money as the legal battle over Greg Lindberg’s empire rages on.
By: Leslie Scism
Many companies gave up selling policies years ago when low interest rates hit their profits and stock prices.
By: Peter Grant, Leslie Scism
Many insurers have slowed or stopped making office loans as billions’ worth of such debt comes due this year.
Big insurers say they need to boost premiums further to offset higher costs for repairs.
By: Leslie Scism
Employees had paid premiums, but failure to file required health forms was only discovered after they died.
By: Leslie Scism, Christopher Gregory-Rivera
Zurich and some other insurers with big fleets of engineers are advising companies on how to fortify their properties.
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