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Being Pleasant Is Key to Success at Small but Growing Southern California Firm Being pleasant may not sound like it’s part of a recipe for success at a firm operating in a space where people survive and thrive by making …
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
Wright National Flood Insurance Company (Wright Flood), a wholly owned subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc. operating within Arrowhead Programs, has announced that its affiliate, Wright National Flood Insurance Services LLC, has entered into an ag...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Aon and ACORD Solutions Group. A summary of these new hires follows here. Insurance broker Aon plc announced the appointments of Andrew Secker as EMEA chief client officer (CCO) for R...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
European reinsurers are entering the 1/1 renewal season with capital levels well above their target ranges, a development that could intensify pricing pressure across the market. According to J.P. Morgan’s latest Love Actuary report, the region’s...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
Survey by Alliant and NAWHC reveals 94% achieve positive ROI while prioritizing quality and access over cost savings. The post
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
The Trump administration is readying a proposal to open almost all US coastal waters to new offshore oil drilling despite opposition from state governors and the president’s previous efforts to close off some of the territory. The draft plan fo...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
Extreme ocean heat has eradicated two key coral species in Florida from a 350-mile-long reef that protects the state’s coastal cities from storms and provides habitat for fisheries, scientists have found. A record marine heat wave in 2023 kille...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
Oil major TotalEnergies misled consumers in a 2021 ad campaign claiming it could become carbon neutral by 2050, a French civil court found on Thursday, in the first decision applying France’s greenwashing law to an energy company. The court ord...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
DSP Doubles Down on Independence by Developing From Within As president of DSP Insurance Services, Taylor Virgil is proud to say that the Schaumburg, Illinois-based agency has taken the road less traveled. At a time when many agencies of its …
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
Kinsale Capital Group, Inc. reported a net income of $141.6 million for the third quarter of 2025, an increase of 24% compared to $114.2 million for the same period a year earlier. Net income included after-tax catastrophe losses of $1 million, co...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
Higginbotham’s Extraordinary Growth Fueled by Recognizing Talent at Every Level It’s not by accident that Higginbotham continually finds itself on the shortlist of best independent insurance agencies to work for. The Fort Worth, Texas-bas...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
The largest retirement community in the world is expanding even further with a nearly $130 million high-yield debt deal. The Villages, a 57,000-acre Floridian megaplex, already part of the fastest-growing metropolitan area in the US, plans to tap mun...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
Berenberg, the German private bank and investment firm, met with 20 US investors last week to present insights on the insurance and reinsurance sectors, with the discussions primarily addressing market outlook, company performance, and sector valu...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
Global Commercial Insurance Rates Drop 4% in Q3, for 5th Quarterly Decline...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
Disaster Relief Fund Hits Critical Low as Shutdown Endures As the US government sh...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
Air traffic control staffing issues are delaying travel at airports in New York, Washington, Newark and Houston, the Federal Aviation Administration said late on Thursday, as a U.S. government shutdown hit its 23rd day. The FAA was reporting staffing...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
Coalition, the San Francisco-based cyber managing general agent and cyber-security firm, announced it is offering Excess Cyber Insurance policies in Quebec along with a refreshed Excess offering across Canada. The refreshed Excess offering will enabl...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
Lloyd’s global insurer and reinsurer MS Amlin has confirmed several senior appointments in its Casualty Reinsurance team, including that of Rhian Pinder as Head of US Casualty, and Jonathan Kimber has been appointed Head of International Casualty...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
Rivian has agreed to settle a 2022 class-action lawsuit by paying $250 million to some shareholders who had alleged the electric vehicle maker defrauded investors over vehicle prices when it went public, according to a court filing on Thursday. The &...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a provider of data and analytics for the insurance and financial industries, has released its 10th annual US Home Trends Report. The study offers a detailed look at how claims trends across different perils are shaping t...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
Specialty insurer and reinsurer IQUW Bermuda has announced the appointment of James Mitchell as Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO) with immediate effect. In his new role, as CUO, Bermuda, Mitchell will be responsible for leading all reinsurance unde...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
Universal Insurance Holdings has disclosed a Q3 2025 net income available to common stockholders of $39.8 million, a sharp turnaround from a net loss of $16.2 million in Q3 2024, driven by a lower net loss ratio, higher net premiums earned, and in...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
The European Union adopted a new package of sanctions targeting Russia’s energy infrastructure, building on new US and UK moves to chip away at Moscow’s ability to wage its war against Ukraine. The EU measures will ban LNG imports from &#...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
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Posted: Oct 24, 2025
Cowbell, a cyber and specialty insurance provider focused on small and medium-sized enterprises, has announced the appointments of Jessica Klipphahn as Head of North America Mid-Market and Stephanie Hewerdine as Director of Claims. In her new role...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
MX, the underwriting division of Specialist Risk Group (SRG), has entered into a strategic multi-year delegated distribution agreement with Aviva to support Trilogy Underwriting. This partnership is expected to generate over £100 million in gross...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
Apple abused its dominant position by charging app developers unfair commissions, a London tribunal ruled on Thursday, in a blow which could leave the U.S. tech company on the hook for hundreds of millions of pounds in damages. The Competition …...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
Aon, a global insurance and reinsurance broking group, has announced the appointments of Andrew Secker as EMEA Chief Client Officer (CCO) for Reinsurance Solutions and Daniele De Bosini as EMEA Chief Broking Officer (CBO) for Reinsurance Solutions...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
Moody’s Ratings has revised its outlook for Germany’s property and casualty (P&C) insurance sector to stable from negative, citing an expected improvement in underwriting profitability and a return to more balanced market conditions. The chang...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
Remember in “The Avengers” movie when all the superheroes finally come together, and you just know something EPIC (see what I did there) is about to happen? That’s exactly how I felt when we finalized our acquisition of Cytora – ...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
Global insurance intermediary group Howden has announced the appointment of Mike Dalby as CEO, Howden Consumer & Local Commercial (CLC), succeeding Kelly Ogley. Dalby takes up this role alongside his existing leadership of Howden’s Consumer Li...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
Trading in the first of Lloyd’s three 2025 capacity auctions reached £86 million, marking the most active opening auction in a decade, with capacity changing hands across 21 syndicates. According to data from Argenta, there were £32.7 million of s...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
CyberCube, a provider of cyber risk analytics for the re/insurance industry, has estimated a preliminary loss range of $38 million to $581 million for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, which the firm has nicknamed “Amazonk”. This estimate foll...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
Recent Years’ Commercial Auto Loss Costs Dog Selective Insurance in...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
ACORD Solutions Group, a provider of advanced digital solutions for the global insurance industry, has appointed Dave Matcham as its Global Ambassador for Digital Markets. In this advisory role, Matcham will focus on promoting the advantages of st...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
CRC Group Names New Team Members in Specialty Division CRC Group, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, added three new professionals to its CRC Specialty division. Ryan Degale rejoins CRC Specialty as a broker based in Orlando with the Boca Raton, F...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
Allianz UK has announced a number of executive leadership changes, including the appointment of Ulf Lange as Managing Director of Personal Lines, subject to regulatory approval. The executive, who has held the role of Chief Financial Officer (CFO)...
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The program business sector is growing at a rate that outpaces the broader commercial insurance market. Between 2010 and 2020, the program business sector grew from $17.5 billion in commercial insurance revenue to $53.8 billion. In 2024, premium volu...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
Alphabet’s Waymo said on Wednesday it will begin manual testing of its autonomous vehicles at Newark Liberty International Airport, as the firm looks to bring its robotaxis to one of the three main airports serving the New York City area. ̷...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
The company behind a trucking navigation and compliance apps has launched its own insurance agency. Earlier this month, Trucker Path announced the launch of its in-house, digitally enabled retail agency focused exclusively on trucking insurance. Truc...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
Conservative activist Robby Starbuck sued Google on Wednesday, alleging the tech giant’s artificial intelligence systems generated “outrageously false” information about him. Starbuck said in the lawsuit, filed in Delaware state cou...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025
The University of Virginia has agreed to abide by White House guidance forbidding discrimination in admissions and hiring, becoming the latest campus to strike a deal with the Trump administration as the college tries to pause months of scrutiny by &...
Posted: Oct 24, 2025