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Posted: Dec 12, 2025
The latest people news in the industry today. The post Melissa Sage Named Senior Vice President and Compl...
Posted: Dec 12, 2025
The owner of a Connecticut construction firm has been arrested and charged with failing to provide the required workers’ compensation insurance coverage for employees as required by law. According to the state’s Division of Criminal Justi...
Posted: Dec 12, 2025
President Donald Trump signed an order aimed at thwarting state-level regulation of artificial intelligence through lawsuits and funding cuts, handing a win to tech industry leaders who’ve pressed for preemption of local rules. Trump said the m...
Posted: Dec 12, 2025
The latest people news in the industry today. The post Jake Byrne Named U.S. Marine Risks & Liability Practice Leader at Loc...
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The latest people news in the industry today. The post Elizabeth Neumann Named Executive Vice President, Financ...
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The latest people news in the industry today. The post Sean Willett Named Senior Vice President – C...
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Tim Turner, Group Head of MAP (Marine, Accident & Political) Risks at Beazley, stated that data centres are increasingly targets for protest and disruption, highlighting the need for insurance to evolve into a strategic enabler that helps orga...
Posted: Dec 12, 2025
With premium growth slowing to around 3% or 4%, and hurricane activity likely returning to normal levels, analysts at Fitch Ratings foresee 2026 underwriting results for property/casualty insurers lining up with results for 2024. Tana Marcom and Chri...
Posted: Dec 12, 2025
We knew we were important to the insurance industry—but we didn’t understand why. Legal finance has become a lightning rod in insurance industry conversations about social inflation and claims costs, yet the substance of what we do remains wide...
Posted: Dec 12, 2025
Coalition, an active insurer focused on preventing digital risks, has added a new Deepfake Response Endorsement to its Cyber Insurance policies worldwide. “Businesses can do everything right – lock down networks, ignore fraudulent funds tran...
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Apollo Global Management Inc. compared the potential risks of some US insurers moving to the Cayman Islands with the swift collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, which triggered a crisis among regional lenders. The British overseas territory is the “...
Posted: Dec 12, 2025
Arch Insurance, a division of Bermuda-based re/insurer, Arch Capital Group, has appointed Ernesto Medina Gomez to the newly created role of Head of Executive Assurance for Europe at Arch Insurance (EU) dac (AIEU), effective immediately. In his new...
Posted: Dec 12, 2025
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at the MGA DUAL Europe and AXIS Capital Holdings. A summary of these new hires follows here. DUAL Europe Names Berhault and Benajiba to Lead Europe Transactional Liability DUAL Europe, t...
Posted: Dec 12, 2025
Lockton, the privately held, independent insurance broker, reports that the US commercial insurance market remained broadly stable in 2025, though economic uncertainties are expected to influence conditions in 2026. The latest Lockton Market Updat...
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Willis Re, a specialised reinsurance broker, has announced the appointment of Charlie Hall, a seasoned reinsurance executive with over a decade of experience in the Non-Marine Property market. Hall joins the firm following a successful tenure at G...
Posted: Dec 12, 2025
Message board website Reddit on Friday filed a lawsuit in Australia’s highest court seeking to overturn the country’s social media ban for children, calling it an intrusion on free political discourse and setting the stage for a protracte...
Posted: Dec 12, 2025
Italian-headquartered insurer Generali and banking group BPCE have jointly decided to terminate negotiations related to the establishment of a joint venture in asset management. On 21st January 2025, Generali and BPCE signed a non-binding Memorand...
Posted: Dec 12, 2025
The burglars who robbed Paris’s Louvre museum benefited from 30 seconds of security lapses that helped ensure their getaway with France’s still-missing crown jewels, an inquiry from France’s culture ministry into the spectacular hei...
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Most major Canadian highways to the Pacific port city of Vancouver have been shut due to floods, falling rocks and the risk of avalanches, local authorities said on Thursday. “This situation is evolving and very dynamic,” said the transpo...
Posted: Dec 12, 2025
Dubai National Insurance & Reinsurance PSC (DNIR), a Public Shareholding company operating in the United Arab Emirates, has announced that A.R. Srinivasan has resigned from his role as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Srinivasan has served in th...
Posted: Dec 12, 2025
DBRS Morningstar, a credit ratings agency known for independent financial analysis and sector research, states that the outlook for Canada’s property and casualty (P&C) insurance market in 2026 remains neutral. According to DBRS Morningstar, t...
Posted: Dec 12, 2025
The U.S. is preparing to intercept more ships transporting Venezuelan oil following the seizure of a tanker this week, as it increases pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, six sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday. The seizure...
Posted: Dec 12, 2025
DUAL Europe, part of Howden, today announces the immediate appointments of Amaury Berhault and Jaume Benajiba as Managing Directors of its Transactional Liability business in Europe. Berhault and Benajiba each bring over 17 years of expertise in t...
Posted: Dec 12, 2025
Direct Commercial Limited (DCL), a specialist insurance provider, has appointed Steve Knights as London Market New Business Underwriter, effective 9 December 2025. Based at the company’s Lime Street office in London, he will join the New Business...
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Pen Underwriting, a multi-class multi-territory managing general agent (MGA), has announced the extension of its decades-long strategic collaboration with Zurich in the UK, with a newly expanded multi-year specialist fleet capacity deal. Building...
Posted: Dec 12, 2025
NFP, an Aon company and provider of property and casualty (P&C) brokerage and benefits consulting, has promoted and expanded Caleb Noel’s role to Executive Vice President (EVP) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Noel is based in Austin a...
Posted: Dec 12, 2025
Climate change supercharged devastating floods that killed more than 1,600 people across parts of South and Southeast Asia, according to new research. A trio of tropical cyclones battered the region from Sri Lanka to Indonesia in November, causing at...
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Rising geopolitical tensions, ongoing trade disputes, climate-related hazards, and post-Brexit regulatory challenges are creating a complex and volatile risk environment that is testing the resilience of the global marine insurance industry, accor...
Posted: Dec 12, 2025
The Applied Underwriters Invitational said its annual golf competition raised a record-breaking $15.2 million for charities across the nation. The record exceeds last year’s $14 million, and boosts Applied Invitational’s 38-year total to...
Posted: Dec 12, 2025
HSB (UK & Ireland), a provider of engineering insurance and inspection services, has announced that Terry Dyson, the Managing Director, has decided to retire at the end of March 2026. Dyson has an insurance industry career spanning four decade...
Posted: Dec 12, 2025
The Hill, a prominent Washington, D.C.-based political newspaper, named Charles Symington, president and CEO of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (Big “I”), among the top trade association lobbyists in the nation&#...
Posted: Dec 12, 2025
OpenAI and its investor Microsoft Corp. were sued over a Connecticut murder-suicide in the latest case to blame the popular ChatGPT chatbot for dangerous psychological manipulation of users. The lawsuit turns on the actions of a 56-year-old man who l...
Posted: Dec 12, 2025
Avocet Partners, a new insurance-focused investment and operating platform, has launched backed by $500 million of committed equity capital from funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. and Lane42 Investment Partners, LLC. Led by an exper...
Posted: Dec 12, 2025
An internal affairs investigation into the actions of Rutland, Vermont police in a motor-vehicle pursuit that resulted in the death of a young officer was “preventable” if police had followed proper procedures, recent court documents show...
Posted: Dec 12, 2025
Penn National Insurance, headquartered in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is making changes to its leadership team effective in early 2026. After over 30 years with the company, including more than five as president and CEO, Robert Brandon will transition...
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Texas is about to deploy a potential solution to the oil industry’s toxic wastewater problem — but it’s a move that carries environmental risks of its own. State regulators are working to issue permits that would let four companies, inclu...
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OpenAI Warns New Models Pose ‘High’ Cybersecurity Risk OpenAI on Wednesday warned that its upcoming ar...
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