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Bermuda-based Mosaic Insurance has announced excess casualty as its eighth global product line, appointing April Andruczyk as Head of Bermuda, Excess Casualty to lead the new unit. The facility begins underwriting immediately, and will provide sup...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
Munich Re Specialty – Global Markets, Syndicate (Munich Re Syndicate Limited), the managing agent of Syndicate 457, has announced the appointment of Stephanie Ogden to lead the organisation, effective 1st March 2026. Ogden will be succeeding...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
Two utility workers in North Charleston were killed when the scissor lift they were using struck live power lines, causing a fire. Local news outlets reported that witnesses said the 25-year-old men, working at night Jan. 6, did not have …
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
Cytora, a digital risk processing platform for the insurance industry, has partnered with Climatig, a provider of an innovative solution for calculating detailed physical climate risks. This integration embeds Climatig’s advanced climate analysis...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
New York Regulates Consumer Litigation Financing New York State has a new law that regulates the in...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
Millions at Risk of Los Angeles-Style Wildfires in Australia Millions of peo...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
The U.S. Department of Transportation is withholding about $160 million from California after the state delayed canceling thousands of commercial driver’s licenses that regulators say were issued illegally. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy s...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
California Gov. Gavin Newsom will call for a crackdown on institutional investors buying up homes in the state during a speech Thursday, following a similar announcement by President Donald Trump. Newsom plans on saying he will work with local legisl...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
“Sustainable value creators” among the 100 largest property/casualty insurance carriers generated more than twice as much of their value through underwriting than through investment activities over a 20-year study period, according to a n...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
Polo Managing Agency (PMA), part of the PoloWorks group, has launched three new Lloyd’s syndicates: Atradius Syndicate 1864, Aurora Syndicate 1890, and OAK Enterprise Syndicate 1440 – all of which began underwriting from 1 January 2026. PMA,...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
Bridge Specialty Group, a subsidiary of Florida-based Brown & Brown, Inc., has acquired the assets of Shoemaker & Besser, a managing general agent and wholesale insurance brokerage located in York, Pennsylvania. The announcement said that Sho...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
US health insurance companies continued to dominate the ranking of the world’s largest insurers in terms of 2024 net premiums written (NPW), with UnitedHealth Group Inc. maintaining its top spot, reporting $308.81 billion in NPW, an increase of 6....
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
Life and health reinsurer Pacific Life Re has appointed Jia Yi Tan as its new Claims and Global Chief Underwriting (CUO), based in Singapore. In her new role, Tan succeeds Andrew Doran, who has been promoted as Chief Executive Officer of Underwrit...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
Recent geopolitical developments in Venezuela have brought renewed focus to tail risks for the global insurance sector, particularly across specialty property and casualty (P&C) lines with exposure to marine, aviation, and trade credit in the...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
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Posted: Jan 08, 2026
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Posted: Jan 08, 2026
The Lloyd’s Market Association (LMA), the body representing the interests of managing agents and Lloyd’s brokers, has appointed Matthew Bellamy as Underwriting Director, who will join the body in late 2026. In his new role, Bellamy will report to...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
Florida-based American Coastal Insurance Corporation (ACIC) has renewed its all other perils catastrophe excess of loss agreement (AOP CAT agreement) for 2026, providing up to $95.6 million of occurrence limit excess of the $10 million attachment...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
Global specialty broker Price Forbes has announced the appointment of Dick Heath as Head of Reinsurance and Wholesale, Singapore, effective immediately. In his new role, Heath will be responsible for leading and developing Price Forbes’ reinsuranc...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
CFC, an insurance provider with a focus on carbon-related risks, has launched a new extension to its flagship Cyber Proactive Response cover for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This extension was developed to provide essential protection for...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
HDI Global has appointed Simon Hunt, its current Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for HDI Global UK & Ireland, as interim Chief Executive Officer, while Ger Twomey will serve as interim CFO. The two appointments are effective February 1st, 2026 a...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple has approved Progressive Security Insurance Company’s request for a 6.6% average rate decrease on its over 270,000 private passenger auto insurance policyholders and Progressive Paloverde Insurance Co...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
The Queensland and New South Wales severe convective storm (SCS) outbreak between 21st and 27th November 2025 is estimated to have caused an insurance industry loss of AUD 2.663 billion, according to PERILS, the Zurich-based catastrophe insurance...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
Verisk, a global data analytics and technology provider to the insurance industry, has announced the expansion of Tim Rayner’s responsibilities to include leadership of its underwriting and claims businesses in the United Kingdom and Ireland, as w...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
Munich Re has appointed Paolo Ghirri as Chief Executive Officer of Munich Re Italia, effective 1 January 2026. Ghirri, who has been with Munich Re Italia for over 35 years, has built a career marked by continuous growth and positions of increasing...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
Blenheim Partnerships, part of the White Bear Group, today announces the launch of its specialty trade-related managing general agency. The MGA is backed by Blenheim Underwriting alongside other well-known markets, including some Lloyd’s syndic...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
Specialist insurer Brit Group Holdings Limited is set to write Property D&F business in Bermuda through Brit Re, its reinsurance arm, led by Tom Ayton, Vice President, Property D&F. From January, Brit Re will write US and Global Property D...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
Statera Managing Agency Ltd. announced it has received regulatory approval to act as a Lloyd’s managing agent. Statera will manage Syndicates 4242 and 1416, which currently underwrite specialty risks produced through its strategic relationship...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
A man who broke windows at Vice President JD Vance’s Ohio home and caused other property damage was detained early Monday, the U.S. Secret Service said. William D. DeFoor, 26, is facing federal charges for allegedly damaging government property...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
Global specialty insurer and reinsurer Ascot has appointed Justin Keith, current Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ascot Bermuda Limited, to lead the expansion of the firm’s treaty reinsurance offerings in the US market. To serve in his new r...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
The EU Commission must take legal action to stop the “industrialization of sexual harassment” taking place on Elon Musk’s social media platform X, Germany’s media minister, Wolfram Weimer, told Reuters on Tuesday. With his com...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
Private insurance broker Lockton has announced the appointment of Brett Gillmon as U.S. Property Practice Leader, an Atlanta-based role. Gillmon will leverage his three decades of industry experience to oversee the strategic direction and continue...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026
Jackson Financial Inc., a U.S. retirement services firm, has entered a long-term strategic partnership with TPG Inc., a global alternative asset manager, with TPG’s investment to be used for the initial capitalisation of Jackson’s new Michigan-bas...
Posted: Jan 08, 2026