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UK domiciled insurer Admiral Group has completed the sale of its US motor insurance business, including Elephant Insurance Company and Elephant Insurance Services (Elephant), to J.C. Flowers & Co., a global private investment firm dedicated to...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
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Posted: Jan 05, 2026
Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara released new data showing insurance companies have paid more than $22.4 billion to Southern California wildfire survivors.
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
New RIMS leadership sets vision for risk professionals to drive corporate innovation. The post Manny Padilla Named RIMS President for 2026 Term app...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
Ascot Group has appointed Ashleigh Edwards as Group Head of Ceded Reinsurance, where she will lead the firm’s global ceded re strategy, covering its structures, placement approaches, and business lines. Edwards joins Ascot from RenaissanceRe, wher...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
CRC Group, the independent broker and underwriting specialty insurance distributor, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Euclid Transactional, a global provider of transactional insurance solutions. New York City-based Euclid Tra...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
Upstate New York-based independent agency Lawley announced that Witkin Scott Associates has joined its organization effective January 1, 2026. As part of this partnership, all associates of Witkin Scott will join Lawley and relocate to its main offic...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
Insurance Journal has opened its annual Agency Salary Survey, inviting retail insurance agency professionals across the property/casualty sector to participate. The survey is open to agency owners, principals, producers, account managers, CSRs, and s...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
Insurance and reinsurance broking group Howden has agreed to acquire Atlantic Global Risk LLC, an independent transaction liability insurance broker headquartered in New York, US. Since its establishment in 2017, Atlantic Group has rapidly expande...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
California Workers Comp Combined Ratio for 2024 Highest in 20-Plus Years After three con...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
This year, many of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence companies face a pitched battle over government regulation on their home turf—California. And even President Donald Trump’s threat to punish states that regulate AI may...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
CRU Group, a North American claims adjusting and services firm based in Dallas and Toronto, is expanding its flood insurance line with the appointment of Danny Sewell, who is based in Florida. CRU Group has “supported our Canadian clients in &#...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
Corebridge Financial, Inc., an American multinational financial services company, has successfully closed the final portions of the variable annuity reinsurance deal with Corporate Solutions Life Reinsurance Company, an insurance subsidiary of Ven...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
Global multi-line insurer, Zurich Insurance,, has appointed Paolo Mantero as its new Group Head of Reinsurance, who is transitioning to the role from his most recent position as Chief Strategy Officer (CSO). Mantero, who brings a wealth of strateg...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a 77-year-old woman who went overboard on a cruise ship near Cuba on New Year’s Day. Crews searched for eight hours over 690 square miles (1,787 square kilometers) for the woman, …
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
A small private plane with only the pilot on board crashed at Provincetown Municipal Airport on Cape Cod on Sunday. The pilot was pronounced dead at the scene. According to officials of the Massachusetts seaside town, the plane crash took …
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
Global reinsurer capital increased by more than 6% from the end of 2024 to $760 billion as at September 30th, 2025, with growth in both traditional and alternative capital, driven by retained earnings, unrealised gains, and new inflows to sidecars...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
In 2026, insurers will move from experimenting with AI to scaling it with human oversight, stronger governance, and decisions driven by real-time data for underwriting, Travis MacMillian, president of the Americas at Xceedance, has suggested. Xcee...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has created sexualized images of people including minors on the social media platform X in response to user prompts in recent days, drawing rebuke from officials such as the French government. Gr...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
UK insurance broker Howden agreed to buy M&A protection specialist Atlantic Group as the City firm presses ahead with a rapid expansion in the key US market. Atlantic Group’s founders — Richard French, Joe O’Brien and David Haigh — wi...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
The cyber market benefited from more-than-adequate capacity at the January 1st, 2026, reinsurance renewals, with levels far exceeding those available a few years ago, according to reinsurance broker Gallagher Re’s 1st View renewal report. Ia...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
Valais public prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into the operators of Le Constellation Bar in Crans Montana, Switzerland, after a fatal fire that broke out on New Years Eve. Following the initial investigation conducted by the Valais p...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
Sompo, a global provider of property, casualty, and specialty insurance and reinsurance, has appointed Christian Silies as President of Europe Reinsurance. Silies brings more than two decades of industry experience, with expertise spanning special...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
Ryan Spettigue has joined AIG as the firm’s new Head of Client and Broker Engagement, Australia. Spettigue joins AIG from Chubb, where he served in a number of senior underwriting roles. He joined Chubb in 2014 as a casualty underwriter befo...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
The UK just wrapped the warmest and sunniest year ever recorded. The average temperature for the UK in 2025 was 10.09C, the warmest since modern weather observation started in 1884, according to new data released by the UK Met Office. …
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
Surging renewable output overwhelmed Europe’s power grid in 2025, driving electricity prices below zero more often than ever before. Negative power prices are underscoring how rapid growth in renewable generation is colliding with stagnant dema...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
The Baldwin Group, an independent insurance brokerage and advisory firm, and CAC Group, a national middle-market insurance broker and advisor, comprising CAC Specialty and CAC Agency, have completed the previously announced merger, with a total up...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
The U.S. military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and flew him out of the country early Saturday also disrupted Caribbean travel at a busy travel time for the region. No airline flights were crossing over Venezuela that da...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
Markets may have shrugged off the audacious U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, but some investors warn that geopolitical risks are perhaps being underestimated after Donald Trump threatened further action in the Americas. Investors...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
Guy Carpenter experts from the Asia Pacific region have shared their insights on the reinsurance renewals for January 1, 2026, highlighting the region’s favourable results for the year with lower than average cat losses. Tony Gallagher, CEO Asia P...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
The Travelers Companies, Inc., a provider of property and casualty insurance, has completed the sale of the personal insurance business and the majority of the commercial insurance business of Travelers Canada to Definity Financial Corporation for...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
The Trump administration has transformed the Environmental Protection Agency in its first year, cutting federal limits on air and water pollution and promoting fossil fuels, a metamorphosis that clashes with the agency’s historic mission to pro...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
Risk appetite among high-net-worth individuals has dropped sharply, according to a new high-net-worth outlook from HUB International. Per the report, only 25% of HNW individuals are willing to assume more risk for premium savings—down from 39% in 202...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
If Florida property insurance companies and regulators hoped a complaint about altered adjusters’ reports would quietly fade away, a lawsuit by a homeowner at the heart of the controversy has brought new attention to the matter. North Port home...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
Four people have been indicted in New Jersey for their alleged roles in a scheme to file fraudulent travel insurance claims worth more than $250,000. They are accused of taking out multiple travel insurance policies and then filing claims against ...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
Bryan Feitel joined Alliant Insurance Services as vice president within its employee benefits group. Based in Connecticut and serving Alliant nationally, Feitel joins California-based Alliant with more than three decades of experience in the employee...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
A crew of concrete workers were put in danger during a recent home build in Spokane, prompting a Washington safety regulator to issue $300,000 in fines for exposing them to potential cave-ins and excavation hazards. The Washington State Department of...
Posted: Jan 05, 2026
The new Lloyd’s syndicate highlights how analytics and alternative capital are reshaping the underwriting of diversified portfolios.
Posted: Jan 04, 2026
The company plans to scale its cyber and financial lines business while pursuing international growth and profitability.
Posted: Jan 04, 2026
The brokerage will use SimplePin’s platform to streamline receivables and improve payment processing.
Posted: Jan 04, 2026
The combined mutual insurer plans to unify operations under the Beneva brand within one year.
Posted: Jan 04, 2026
15% of Sapiens' global workforce likely to be impacted.
Posted: Jan 04, 2026