All Posts

Areawide Insurance Advisors Joins Leavitt Group Texas Select

Insurance Journal

Areawide Insurance Advisors has joined Leavitt Group Texas Select, strengthening the agency’s presence in the Bryan and College Station area with the added resources of Leavitt Group, a national brokerage. Mike Kilgore, owner of Areawide Insura...

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

Discerning Coverage Nuances for Contractors

Risk & Insurance

Understanding the coverage gaps between general liability, professional liability, and pollution policies can help contractors avoid costly surprises when claims arise. The post

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

South Texas Homebuilders Warn ICE Arrests Have Upended Industry

Insurance Journal

One morning in mid-November, Mario Guerrero, the executive director of the South Texas Builders Association, was checking a group chat when a video of federal agents detaining people from a construction site popped up. He watched the video of Immigra...

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

Explosion at Nursing Home in Pennsylvania Kills Two, Injures Others

Insurance Journal

An explosion at a Pennsylvania nursing home that caused the building to collapse and took the lives of two people and injured about 20 others is under investigation. The explosion occurred at Bristol Health & Rehab Center in Bristol Township &#82...

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

Mexican Navy Plane on Medical Mission Crashes in Texas, Killing At Least 5

Insurance Journal

A small Mexican Navy plane transporting a young medical patient and seven others crashed Monday near Galveston, killing at least five people and setting off a search in waters along the Texas coast, officials said. Four of the people aboard …

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

US Steel Sued for Pregnancy Discrimination at Minnesota Mine

Insurance Journal

U.S. Steel, a multinational steel and iron mining company, violated federal law when it failed to provide an employee with a reasonable accommodation for her pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit. Acc...

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

Globe Life establishes Bermuda reinsurance affiliate

Reinsurance News

Globe Life Inc., a US-domiciled holding company specialising in life and supplemental health insurance, has announced the formation and licensing of Globe Life Re Ltd. as a Bermuda Class C insurer to provide reinsurance support for insurance busin...

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

State Farm cuts Tennessee auto rates

coverager

The cumulative cuts are expected to deliver approximately $200 in average annual savings per vehicle.

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

Beneva named official partner of UCI Road World Championships Montréal 2026

coverager

The championships will take place from September 20 to 27, 2026.

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

Hargreaves Lansdown bets on Keystone to rebuild its workplace platform

coverager

The partnership centers on Keystone’s cloud native platform, which HL will use to modernize employer administration and broaden workplace savings access.

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

Slide forecasts $400 million in 2025 net income

coverager

Slide, which currently operates in two states—Florida and South Carolina—plans to enter New Jersey on April 1, 2026.

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

SiriusPoint to acquire Assist America through IMG Unit

coverager

This marks Confianza’s third disclosed Regulation D equity raise, following prior offerings of $1.2 million in 2020 and $2.5 million in 2022.

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

Georgia Regulators Approve Huge Electric Generation Increase for Data Centers

Insurance Journal

Georgia’s only private electric utility plans to increase power capacity by 50% after state regulators on Friday agreed 5-0 that the plan is needed to meet projected demand from data centers. It would be one of the biggest build-outs in …

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

Howden advises K2 on launch of Lloyd’s Syndicate 1954

Reinsurance News

Howden Capital Markets & Advisory and Howden Capital Solutions will serve as financial advisors to MGA platform K2 Insurance Services as it launches Syndicate 1954 for the 2026 YOA, in partnership with Dale Underwriting Partners, the trading n...

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

A 10-Hour Data Center Outage Is Testing the Ambitions of KKR, GIP

Carrier Management

A 10-Hour Data Center Outage Is Testing the Ambitions of KKR, GIP Data center operators are fixated...

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

Massachusetts Approves Reorganizations, Mergers for Andover Companies

Insurance Journal

Massachusetts regulatory officials have approved a plan of reorganizations and mergers for two domestic mutual insurers, Merrimack Mutual Fire Insurance Co. and Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Co. The plan calls for a reorganization of each mutual as...

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

Freedom to buy outstanding shares of Concert

Reinsurance News

The shareholders of Concert Group Holdings, Inc., a specialised insurance holding company known for providing tailored solutions to programme insurance markets, have agreed to allow founding shareholder Freedom Underwriters LLC (Freedom) to purcha...

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

People Moves: Great Bay Insurance Group Makes Leadership Changes

Insurance Journal

The Great Bay Insurance Group, headquartered in West Atlantic City, New Jersey, named Brian S. Schleider executive vice president and chief financial officer. Schleider joined the group in March 2020 as chief financial officer. He has 35 years of ind...

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

Cyber risk to grow more systemic in 2026 as digital dependencies deepen: Coalition

Reinsurance News

According to executives at Coalition, cyber risk in 2026 will be defined less by isolated breaches and more by hidden interdependencies that drive correlated, systemic loss, forcing re/insurers to demand deeper technical clarity, stronger underwri...

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

Zurich North America enhances underwriting efficiency with Convr AI

Reinsurance News

Zurich North America, the commercial property and casualty insurer, is expanding its relationship with Convr AI to improve underwriting efficiency and better serve its customers through Convr’s AI-powered underwriting workbench. Founded in 2...

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

Amiga Specialty welcomes David Filtness as MD, Professional Indemnity

Reinsurance News

Amiga Specialty, an independent international managing general agent (MGA) headquartered in London, has announced the appointment of David Filtness as Managing Director, Professional Indemnity. In his new position, Filtness will lead the developme...

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

Mosaic increases Canada cyber risk capacity to $25m

Reinsurance News

Mosaic Insurance, a specialty insurer focused on financial institutions and cyber risk, will increase its cyber-risk capacity per risk in Canada to $25 million (CAD 40 million), starting January 1st, 2026. The move, which more than doubles the ins...

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

IMAC introduces 2026 Executive Committee and launches talent development initiative

Reinsurance News

The Insurance Managers Association of Cayman (IMAC), a professional body representing insurance managers, captive insurance companies, and service providers while acting as a key liaison with government and regulators in the Cayman Islands, reveal...

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

Jeffrey Loop appointed AXA XL’s Head of Media Liability

Reinsurance News

AXA XL, the property and casualty division of global insurer AXA Group, has announced the appointment of Jeffrey L. Loop as the new Head of Media Liability. Based in Los Angeles, Loop will report to Michelle Chia, Chief Underwriting, Cyber, Design...

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

Underwriter, Actuary Fears of AI Drop; Work Needed on Collaboration

Insurance Journal

You’re just about as likely to find a commercial P/C underwriter or actuary who is unconcerned about the increased use of AI in insurance as you are to find one that’s afraid of being replaced by AI. That’s what a …

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

The Rise of Deepfake Cyberbullying Poses a Growing Problem for Schools

Insurance Journal

Schools are facing a growing problem of students using artificial intelligence to transform innocent images of classmates into sexually explicit deepfakes. The fallout from the spread of the manipulated photos and videos can create a nightmare for th...

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

Head of EEOC Urges White Men to Report Discrimination

Insurance Journal

The head of the U.S. agency for enforcing workplace civil rights posted a social media call-out urging white men to come forward if they have experienced race or sex discrimination at work. “Are you a white male who has experienced …

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

New York Times Reporter Sues Google, xAI, OpenAI Over Chatbot Training

Insurance Journal

An investigative reporter best known for exposing fraud at Silicon Valley blood-testing startup Theranos sued Elon Musk’s xAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta Platforms and Perplexity on Monday for using copyrighted books without permission to...

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

Trump Bid to Defund CFPB Is Crippling the Agency, States Say

Insurance Journal

The Trump administration is illegally trying to cripple the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by refusing to ask the Federal Reserve for funds needed to run the independent regulator, a group of mostly Democratic-led states said in a federal lawsu...

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

Florida’s City National Bank Partnering With NSI to Offer Insurance Products

Insurance Journal

Miami-based City National Bank of Florida, known as Florida’s second-largest bank, has stepped into the property insurance market, offering coverage options at loan closings through a partnership with NSI Insurance Group. “Insurance is a...

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

AM Best assigns Credit Ratings to Prismic Life Re and PL Re International

Reinsurance News

AM Best has assigned Credit Ratings to Prismic Life Reinsurance, Ltd. (Prismic Life Re) and Prismic Life Reinsurance International, Ltd. (PL Re International), both domiciled in Bermuda, with a stable outlook. The ratings agency assigned a Financi...

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

McGowan Acquires Westcap Insurance Services

Insurance Journal

The McGowan Companies, one of the nation’s largest insurance conglomerates, has announced the acquisition of Westcap Insurance Services through an asset purchase agreement. According to a press release, the transaction became effective Nov. 1....

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

Waymos Froze, Blocked Traffic During San Francisco Power Outage

Carrier Management

Waymos Froze, Blocked Traffic During San Francisco Power Outage Wa...

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

People Moves: Tokarsky Joins Alliant Insurance Services as VP, Employee Benefits Group

Insurance Journal

Alliant Insurance Services named Dennis Tokarsky vice president within its employee benefits group. He is based in Southern California. Tokarsky has more than 20 years of experience working with employers across North America, Europe, the Middle East...

Posted: Dec 24, 2025

Healthy Paws donates $275K to animal rescue organizations

coverager

These contributions are part of the Foundation's ongoing commitment to creating accessible pathways for pet rescue and care. 

Posted: Dec 23, 2025

9 Reasons Insurance Agencies and Carriers Prefer AgentSync to DIY Compliance Software

coverager

We meet with carriers and agencies every month that spent years and millions of dollars on homegrown tech solutions. But they reached “full implementation” only to find their software didn’t have enough logic built in to be useful to the team

Posted: Dec 23, 2025

Cowbell launches self-service platform for risk management services

coverager

The update is designed to give small and mid-market businesses easier, more direct access to digital protection tools.

Posted: Dec 23, 2025