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First Central Group Ltd., the UK vehicle and home insurer, has appointed investment banks as it prepares for a potential initial public offering in London, according to people familiar with the matter. The company has lined up Deutsche Bank AG …...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Reduced vessel traffic in the Strait of Hormuz is not because of insurance availability, but because of safety concerns, the Lloyd’s Market Association (LMA) has clarified in a recent statement. The LMA stated: “Three weeks since the start of the...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
The UK will interdict and board Russian “shadow fleet” vessels in its waters, increasing European pressure on Moscow over tankers exporting sanctioned crude in transactions that help fund the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine. Prime Minister...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Pinion Insurance, a newly-formed, technology-enabled specialty insurer, has announced the appointment of Chris Jones as Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective immediately. Jones is now part of a founding leadership team of Chief Executive...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Uber Technologies and autonomous mobility companies Verne and Pony.ai have partnered up to launch Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service in the Croatian capital Zagreb, with plans to expand to other cities, they said on Thursday. Robotaxis...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Allianz Jio Reinsurance Limited (Allianz Jio Re), the joint venture of Jio Financial Services Limited (JFSL) and Allianz Group (Allianz), through its wholly-owned subsidiary Allianz Europe B.V., has commenced its operations, including underwriting...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump said Iran was desperate to make a deal to end nearly four weeks of fighting, contradicting the Iranian foreign minister who said his country was reviewing a U.S. proposal but had no intention of holding talks …
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
A U.S. proposal for ending nearly four weeks of fighting is “one-sided and unfair,” a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Thursday, whileU.S. President Donald Trump said Iran must make a deal or face a continued onslaught. The Iranian...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
BPL, an independent broker in credit and political risk insurance (CPRI), has appointed Edouard Huberdeau as Director as part of its ongoing global expansion. Huberdeau will be based across BPL’s Geneva and Paris offices, focusing on developing ta...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
It’s not how the program was supposed to work. But thanks to a legal anachronism, Britain’s state-backed plan intended to help those most exposed to flooding has ended up favoring the country’s richest property owners. Economists at...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Willis, a WTW business, has partnered with Circle Asia to launch a new art insurance facility designed specifically for individual collectors and art galleries in Asia, the first of its kind in the region. The facility combined specialist arts ins...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Most insurance agencies know when their technology is holding them back. Manual processes creep in. Reporting becomes unreliable. Teams start relying on workarounds just to get through the day. Eventually the conversation turns to the same question:...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
And 5 tech priorities for carriers looking to tighten marginal spend As direct-to-consumer insurance products such as embedded and app-driven signups increase, the insurance industry faces a great debate over who owns a customer relationship. LetR...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
The Iranian parliament is working on a draft bill that would impose a fee on vessels seeking safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, according to the semi-official Fars news agency. Fars, citing an unnamed lawmaker, said the plan would …
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Specialty underwriter SiriusPoint has partnered with property managing general agent (MGA) Steadily, one of the largest landlord insurance specialists in the US, to provide underwriting capacity. Founded in Texas in 2020 to address gaps in rental...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Everest Group, a Bermuda-based insurance and reinsurance company, has appointed Jason Busti as its new Head of North America Treaty Reinsurance, tasked with leading the treaty reinsurance business across the US, Bermuda, and Canada. Busti will rep...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Pacific Life, a US-based provider of life insurance and annuity products, has released findings from its 2026 Underwriting Outlook Survey, offering insight into how underwriting is evolving across the life insurance sector. Pacific Life reported t...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Verisk, a global data analytics and technology provider to the insurance industry, has announced the appointment of Raja Sengupta as president of its Life Solutions business, effective immediately. Sengupta will be leading Verisk’s Life Solutions...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Meta Ordered to Pay $375M After Trial Over Child Exploitation, User Safety...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Vortex Weather Insurance, a provider of parametric weather insurance solutions, has launched direct access to HailSafe, its parametric hail insurance product. HailSafe can now be purchased directly from Vortex by brokers and weather-exposed busine...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has appointed Ettore Palma to the newly created role of Broker Relationship Manager, effective immediately. In his new role, Palma will be based in the recently opened Rome o...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
While insurance broker valuations remained resilient in 2025, essentially staying near all‑time highs, the elephant in the room—Brown & Brown (NYSE: BRO)—has received little attention. From a valuation perspective, what happened with Brown &...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Verisk and the American Property Casualty Insurance Association released preliminary 2025 underwriting results for the property/casualty industry, with a $40 billion increase over the prior year. For private U.S. P/C insurers, the underwriting gain f...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Verisk and the American Property Casualty Insurance Association released preliminary 2025 underwriting results for the property/casualty industry, with a $40 billion increase over the prior year. For private U.S. P/C insurers, the underwriting gain f...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Domestic gas supply in several European cities contains high levels of benzene, an odorless substance that can cause cancer, according to research released on Wednesday. Gas samples taken in UK homes contained 37 times more benzene than North America...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Just over three years ago, Florida lawmakers effectively ended one-way attorney fees, disincentivizing much of the costly property insurance claims litigation that had plagued the industry. Last week, a Florida appeals court issued what it called a &...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Investigators are probing the potential causes of Sunday’s collision between an Air Canada Express plane and a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport in New York. The two pilots were killed. Air Canada said 39 of the 76 passengers and crew …
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Colorado workers’ compensation provider Pinnacol Assurance announced it will distribute a $15 million general dividend to its members in 2026. Pinnacol members can expect to receive dividend checks starting March 25. More than 46,000 members in...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
ALKEME Insurance Appoints Stradling as Chief Financial Officer ALKEME Insurance named Ryan Stradling chief financial officer. Stradling has experience scaling organizations through execution, strategy and data-driven decision-making. Stradling has ex...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
The Trump administration said Monday it has initiated two new investigations into Harvard University over alleged antisemitism on campus and racially discriminatory admissions practices. The inquiries, launched by the Department of Education’s...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Convex’s Chairman Catlin Steps Down, Succeeded by Onex CEO Le Blanc Convex Group Ltd., the internat...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
A Los Angeles jury on Wednesday found Meta and Alphabet’s Google negligent for designing social media platforms that are harmful to young people, in a $6 million verdict that will serve as a bellwether for numerous similar cases. The jury ̷...
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
The two partnered to offer optional service line protection programs to homeowners in Georgia.
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
This will increase Aviva’s existing access to the world’s largest commercial lines market.
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
The MGA has introduced a usage-based insurance offering that integrates telematics data to align pricing, risk assessment and safety performance.
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
Pacific Life on Wednesday announced the results of its 2026 Underwriting Outlook Survey, capturing insights … Read more
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
The insurer has deployed a digital FNOL solution to automate claims intake and support customer self-service for overseas travel insurance.
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
The company has added two whole life products to its platform to increase access to permanent life insurance solutions for end-of-life expenses.
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
The company has agreed to acquire a Guidewire-focused consulting firm to support AI-driven transformation for property/casualty insurers.
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
Insurers focusing on AI-driven cost reduction may miss its greater potential to expand underwriting capacity and unlock new, previously uninsurable risks.
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
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