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Upcover partnered with legal tech platform Lawpath to offer embedded business insurance to its 500,000+ small business users in Australia.
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Written by Brandon Ellison, CEO and Founder of Quility. Originally published via Think Advisor. As insurance agents, we know that when our customers hear the phrase “life insurance,” they usually think...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Discover how carriers are predicting shifts in the market and positioning themselves accordingly
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Hiscox London Market’s Property division will work with X's Bellwether team to integrate its AI-powered wildfire model alongside its existing risk scoring and modeling.
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
US officials are warning businesses to brace for potential Iranian cyberattacks following American airstrikes on the country’s nuclear sites, an event that experts say could draw a relatively small response from hackers. A bulletin from the Dep...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Howden and Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM). A summary of these new hires follows here. Howden Belgium Appoints De Baets as CEO Howden, the London-based insurance intermediary group, t...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Aon plc today announced the launch of Aon Broker Copilot, a platform that uses artificial intelligence, large-language models and predictive analytics in the commercial insurance placement process. “Aon Broker Copilot equips our brokers with th...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Mizuho Americas has announced the appointment of former Jefferies’ insurance analyst, Yaron Kinar as Managing Director and Senior Equity Research Analyst for the Insurance sector. Kinar, who brings two decades of equity research expertise in the i...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Watch out, insurance industry. A well-known cybercrime group appears to have shifted focus to insurers. Apparently, recent cybersecurity incidents at Erie Insurance, Philadelphia Insurance Cos., and most recently Aflac are indicative of a trend. The...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Cyprus-based reinsurance and travel services firm COPE has been approved as a Lloyd’s Coverholder, a significant step in its global expansion. Established in 2023, COPE described the accreditation as “an exciting new chapter” in its growth journey...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Mayer Brown, a law firm known for its comprehensive legal services across multiple industries, has announced that Greg Oguss has joined its Chicago office as a partner in the Corporate & Securities practice and the Global Insurance Industry Gr...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
North Carolina authorities have charged a 65-year-old man and his two sons with insurance fraud for allegedly submitting false and exaggerated claims to one of the state’s property insurers of last resort. William Andrews Sr., of Elon, and his...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Kingstone Companies, Inc., a US property and casualty insurance holding company, has finalised its 2025/2026 catastrophe reinsurance placement, increasing the amount of reinsurance limit secured by 57%, or $160 million year-on-year to $440 million...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
AI maturity index reveals performance gaps among major carriers, with early AI investments beginning to drive measurable business outcomes, according to Evident. The post
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Sunday, June 22, declared a state of emergency in 32 counties in response to severe weather. Three deaths in the town of Kirkland have been attributed to the severe thunderstorms that hit parts of …
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Sunday, June 22, declared a state of emergency in 32 counties in response to severe weather. Three deaths in the town of Kirkland have been attributed to the severe thunderstorms that hit parts of …
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
The pilot of a small plane that crashed near a North Carolina airport this month had raised a wheel after landing to avoid hitting a turtle on the runway, according to a National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report. The pilot …
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Six people were confirmed dead and two others were missing after a boat capsized on Lake Tahoe in California during a powerful weekend thunderstorm that whipped up high waves, officials said. The U.S. Coast Guard and the El Dorado County …
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
A jury has awarded a Georgia couple $2.25 million in their lawsuit accusing a pathologist of posting graphic videos of an autopsy of their decapitated baby. A Fulton County jury returned the verdict against Dr. Jackson Gates on Wednesday. The …
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
The PGA Tour’s 2025 Travelers Championship generated more than $4 million for more than 215 nonprofits, both record highs. The Travelers Companies also set a record this year as the longest-running title sponsor in the tournament’s histor...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Aon, a global insurance and reinsurance broking group, is looking to modernise the commercial insurance placement processes with Aon Broker Copilot, its recently launched patent-pending platform, which will utilise artificial intelligence, large l...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Researchers at cybersecurity outlet Cybernews say that billions of login credentials have been leaked and compiled into datasets online, giving criminals “unprecedented access” to accounts consumers use each day. According to a report pub...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
MS Transverse Insurance Group’s recent upgrade of its Financial Strength Rating to A+ (Superior) from A (Excellent) by AM Best marks a significant milestone and underscores the strength of its business model, the quality of its partnerships, and i...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Racketeering Suit Alleges NY Insurance Fraud Scheme by Lawyers, Medical Providers A New York specialty insurance m...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Elon Musk ‘s X sued Tuesday to try to stop New York from requiring reports on how social media platforms handle problematic posts — a regulatory approach that the company successfully challenged in California. New York’s law, which Democr...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Airlines on Monday were weighing how long to suspend Middle East flights as a conflict which has already cut off major flight routes entered a new phase after the U.S. attacked key Iranian nuclear sites and Tehran vowed to defend …
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Two supertankers, each capable of hauling about 2 million barrels of crude, headed through the Hormuz shipping strait at the mouth of the Persian gulf, having performed U-turns in the past 24 hours. On Sunday, the Coswisdom Lake and South …
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Global specialty broker Price Forbes has announced the appointment of Suvimol Sathanart as Head of Property, Asia. Based in Singapore, Sathanart will report to Julian Coates, Chief Broking Officer at Price Forbes. In her new role, she will be resp...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Canada’s cybersecurity agency said Chinese-backed hackers were likely behind recent malicious activity targeting domestic telecommunications infrastructure, warning that three network devices registered to a Canadian company were compromised in...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Indian insurance policy sellers expect the cost of coverage for airlines to spike as much as 30% after the deadliest aviation crash in more than a decade. Sajja Praveen Chowdary, director at Indian broker Policybazaar, expects premiums for hull, war-...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
In an interview with Reinsurance News, Harmender Singh Kalirai, Chief Transaction Officer at SCOR P&C, discussed SCOR’s new Ecological Restoration Insurance Solution and how it aims to bridge the gap between the need and the desire to finance...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Acrisure Re, the re/insurance division of global fintech company Acrisure, has expanded its US footprint with the launch of its West Coast Office, based in San Francisco, to be established and led by Danny Souza, Senior Vice President. Souza will...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Monrovia, CA., June 18, 2025 — Greenwood General Insurance today announced the official launch of Kaya AI, an artificial intelligence solution designed to streamline ISO class code classification for insurance brokers and underwriters. The tool...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Howden, the global insurance and reinsurance broking group, has received regulatory approval to launch a reinsurance business in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which will be led by Motaz Bukhari as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Howden Re, Kingdom...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Pen Underwriting, a specialist underwriting agency in the UK, has promoted Jamie Lawson to the newly created role of Head of Digital E-Trade, effective July 1st, 2025. In his new role, Lawson will manage and coordinate digital growth initiatives r...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
At least three times a week, Darin Mitchell gets the call. Oil drums have been stolen. Copper wires were yanked. Other field equipment at an oil and gas facility was pilfered. The Winkler County Sheriff dispatches his officers to investigate, …
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Tesla Inc. rolled out its long-awaited robotaxi service to a handful of users following almost a decade of hype from Elon Musk, kicking off a precarious new era for the carmaker. Several of the online influencers who were hand-picked for …
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
S&P Global Ratings, a credit rating agency known for assessing credit risk and financial strength across markets, upgraded Sava Re Group and its core subsidiary Zavarovalnica Sava from ‘A’ to ‘A+’ on both their long-ter...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Powerful winds — including a tornado — that swept across parts of the upper Midwest left three people dead and a regional airport heavily damaged, while nearly 150 million Americans were under a heat advisory or warning as the weekend …
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Walmart has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a U.S. Federal Trade Commission civil lawsuit accusing the world’s largest retailer of ignoring warning signs that fraudsters used its money transfer services to fleece consumers out of hundreds o...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
A U.S. judge granted preliminary approval on Friday to a $177-million settlement that resolves lawsuits against AT&T over breaches in 2024 that exposed personal information belonging to tens of millions of the telecom company’s customers. U...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
In the long conflict between insurance carriers and public claims adjusters, Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has unexpectedly altered the rules of engagement in a way that could have a big impact on some adjusters’ livelihood....
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Clay Johnson was named assistant commissioner of insurance for the Kansas Department of Insurance. Johnson, who was appointed by Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt, succeeds Barb Rankin in the role. Rankin retired in early June. Johnson curr...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Clay Johnson was named assistant commissioner of insurance for the Kansas Department of Insurance. Johnson, who was appointed by Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt, succeeds Barb Rankin in the role. Rankin retired in early June. Johnson curr...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Faced with mounting lawsuits over a popular pistol, New Hampshire-based Sig Sauer asked for — and got — protection in the form of a new state law that makes it harder to take the gunmaker to court. Supporters in the …
Posted: Jun 23, 2025
Oregon’s workers’ compensation rates were among the lowest in the nation last year, according to an analysis released from the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services. The rates reflect statewide effort in workplace safety and...
Posted: Jun 23, 2025