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Alabama has become the seventh state to adopt the “SLIP+ for States” reporting and payment platform for surplus lines data and taxes, starting in 2025. Surplus lines brokers who already have a SLIP+ login do not need to register for ̷...
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
Gallagher Re, the reinsurance broker and risk advisory firm, provides new insights into Japan’s non-life insurance sector in its latest Asia Pacific Market Watch Report. The report shows that Japan, a global top-ten market by non-life premiums and...
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
Mozambique has received a $2 million parametric insurance payout for drought protection covering the 2025–2026 agricultural season, marking the country’s third consecutive year of coverage under the African Development Bank’s disaster risk financi...
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
UK insurer Legal and General Assurance Society Limited (L&G) has completed two buy-ins totalling £4.6 billion with pension schemes sponsored by Ford Motor Company Limited, the Ford Hourly Paid Contributory Pension Fund and the Ford Salaried Co...
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
French authorities have arrested several suspects after a frantic manhunt for the men who staged a spectacular daytime heist at the Louvre museum that gripped the world and embarrassed the government in Paris. The Paris prosecutor’s office conf...
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
Fitch Ratings’ latest analysis of a leading global reinsurer peer group, including Hannover Re, Lloyd’s, Munich Re, PartnerRe, SCOR, and Swiss Re, found that their reserving remains prudent, offering scope to manage and smooth earnings across the...
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
Liberty Mutual Reinsurance (LM Re), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has appointed Andrew Aldwinckle as International Casualty Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO), effective 1 February 2026. In the new role, Aldwinckle will be based in London...
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
Hurricane Melissa strengthened further after pausing for most of Sunday south of Jamaica, with forecasters fearing the historic storm will lead to a humanitarian and economic disaster across the region. Melissa’s top winds reached 150 miles (24...
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
Hurricane Melissa plowed toward Jamaica as a powerful Category 5 storm, threatening to bring widespread destruction to the island. Melissa’s top winds reached 160 miles (257 kilometers) per hour, the US National Hurricane Center said in an advi...
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
Syndicate Research Limited (SRL) has announced that it has assigned its Continuity Opinions (SCOs) to a group of major Lloyd’s syndicates. SRL’s Continuity Opinions are forward-looking assessments of an individual Lloyd’s syndicate’s r...
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
HSBC Holdings said on Monday it will book a $1.1 billion provision in its third-quarter results after losing part of an appeal in a long-running lawsuit tied to Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. HSBC acted as a service provider to several …
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
Apollo, the specialist Lloyd’s re/insurance group, has licensed six of Moody’s high-definition catastrophe models to strengthen its understanding of risk across multiple global perils. Delivered via the cloud-native Moody’s Intelligent Risk Platfo...
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
Hong Kong startup Stellerus aims to create a constellation of satellites to become the world’s first provider of three-dimensional wind data provided by the devices, according to the South China Morning Post. Stellerus, founded in 2023 by Hong...
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
Allianz Commercial, part of global insurer Allianz, has announced a new Board structure and appointments aimed at accelerating growth in its target markets and further strengthening market-facing activities for clients and brokers, effective 1st J...
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
AM Best has revised the outlooks to stable from negative and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) of “a-” (Excellent) of The Farmers Automobile Insurance As...
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
Post years of hardening, capacity is returning to the Asia Pacific (APAC) reinsurance market, says reinsurance broker Gallagher Re in a new Asia Pacific Market Watch report, which dubs this a ‘turning point’ for the region. This return...
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
A director at a company that sells computer vulnerabilities has been charged with stealing secrets to sell to an unspecified buyer in Russia, according to a court document and people familiar with the matter. Peter Williams was accused of stealing &#...
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
U.S. Google users who won a $425 million jury verdict in a consumer privacy class action last month have asked a federal judge to force the Alphabet unit to forfeit an additional $2.36 billion in profits. The consumers in an …
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
Universal Insurance Holdings, parent company of Florida’s third-largest property insurer, reported an improved bottom line for the third quarter this year, even with a steady increase in policies in recent months. After shedding more than 160,0...
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
A dark history long buried under the towering live oak trees and manicured lawns of a country club in Florida’s capital city of Tallahassee is reviving painful memories of the community’s segregated past and fueling some residents’...
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
An employee allegedly stole 47 vehicles from an Avis Budget site at an upstate New York airport and rented them out around the region, police said Friday. The car rental company reported to authorities that the vehicles, worth more than …
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara issued a formal notice asking insurance companies to implement protective measures, including a moratorium on cancellations, for policyholders who may be impacted by the federal government shutdown. Acco...
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
Cowbell Names Klipphahn and Hewerdine to Mid-Market and Claims Leadership Cowbell named Jessica Klipphahn head of North America mid-market and Stephanie Hewerdine as director of claims. Klipphahn has more than 15 years of experience in the insurance...
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
President Donald Trump approved major disaster declarations for Alaska, Nebraska, North Dakota and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe last week, while denying requests from Vermont, Illinois and Maryland and leaving other states still waiting for answers....
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
President Donald Trump approved major disaster declarations for Alaska, Nebraska, North Dakota and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe last week, while denying requests from Vermont, Illinois and Maryland and leaving other states still waiting for answers....
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
President Donald Trump approved major disaster declarations for Alaska, Nebraska, North Dakota and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe last week, while denying requests from Vermont, Illinois and Maryland and leaving other states still waiting for answers....
Posted: Oct 27, 2025
One or more intruders broke into an Iowa mink farm and released 2,000 of the furbearing animals in what a trade group called a “terrorist act” under federal law. Sometime between last Monday night and Tuesday morning, fencing was cut R...
Posted: Oct 26, 2025
A South Dakota company is recalling more than 2.2 million pounds (998,000 kilograms) of Korean barbecue pork jerky sold at Costco and Sam’s Club stores because the product may be contaminated with pieces of metal, federal health officials said...
Posted: Oct 26, 2025
A federal jury found a private company running a Louisiana jail liable for the 2015 death of a man who died of head injuries he received while in custody, and awarded the family more than $40 million in damages. Attorneys …
Posted: Oct 26, 2025
Turning Cybersecurity Into an Investment Cyber
Posted: Oct 26, 2025
What Radical Transformers Do Differently AI & Machine Learning
Posted: Oct 26, 2025
AI Agents in Insurance: Why Interoperability Matters AI & Machine Learning
Posted: Oct 26, 2025
In the Wake of Medicare/Medicaid Cuts Life & Health
Posted: Oct 26, 2025
Putting Philanthropic Strategies Into Action Leadership
Posted: Oct 26, 2025
AI Software Transforms Insurance Underwriting Underwriting
Posted: Oct 26, 2025
Mergers and acquisitions insurance sector deals declined through third quarter 2025, a 7% decline on prior year to date.
Posted: Oct 26, 2025
The CEO argues that insurance doesn’t need to invent new technology—only to catch up with the rest of the modern software world.
Posted: Oct 26, 2025
The launch of ClaimsPay via Guidewire Marketplace deepens One Inc’s strategic partnership as Guidewire Connections begins in Las Vegas.
Posted: Oct 26, 2025
New capabilities combine agentic AI and multi-agent orchestration to streamline operations and enhance customer service across the insurance lifecycle.
Posted: Oct 26, 2025
The new cloud-native Accelerator embeds AI-powered risk insights and high-resolution imagery into Guidewire to streamline underwriting.
Posted: Oct 26, 2025