Industry the December 2024 issue

20 Years of Leader’s Edge

A two-decade timeline of major insurance events and Leader’s Edge coverage.

By Leader's Edge Staff Posted on December 2, 2024

A lot has happened in the two decades since Leader’s Edge published its first issue.

We decided to look back at the major events in the insurance sector and the world over the past 20 years, from Eliot Spitzer’s legal attack on the industry to enactment of the Affordable Care Act to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Read the timeline.

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