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Eleos Life Introduces Theea, an AI Co-Pilot for Life Insurance

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Theea provides real-time, plain-language support to help consumers understand and choose life insurance coverage in the U.S. and U.K.

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Celent Warns: Insurance Must Embrace Liquid Risk Paradigm

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In a new report, Celent analyst Fabio Sarrico argues insurers face an existential shift in the very nature of risk—and urges them to rethink protection.

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Kinetic Insurance Scales with Novidea’s Workers’ Comp Solution

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By pivoting from injury-prevention devices to underwriting, Kinetic built a data-rich model that integrates technology and insurance on Novidea’s flexible platform.

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Tinubu Innoveo Aims for Leadership in Specialty Insurance Systems

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Backed by new funding and an expanded global footprint, Tinubu Innoveo is pursuing its goal of becoming the leading specialty insurance technology provider, with Vinod Kachroo highlighting speed-to-market, configurability, and scalable solutions.

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

IBM and ABBYY Expand Partnership to Advance KYC Automation

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The integration of AI from both firms enables financial institutions to automate Know Your Customer workflows with end-to-end orchestration and real-time compliance monitoring.

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Telecom Outage Halted Arriving Flights at Newark Airport, FAA Says

Insurance Journal

A telecom frequency outage prompted the Federal Aviation Administration Thursday to halt arriving flights at Newark Liberty International Airport for more than an hour, the latest tech issue to snarl flights at the airport near New York City. Flightr...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

AGENTS, BROKERS, AND INSURTECH

Rough Notes

Providing customers with the right tools, resources and experiences can amplify an independent agent’s value By Lori Widmer It seems that for years there have been those forecasting the demise of independent agents and brokers. The growth of direct w...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Organized Ring Responsible for an Estimated $10M in Home Depot Thefts Busted

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Organized Ring Responsible for an Estimated $10M in Home Depot Thefts Busted Nine defendants are ac...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Top 5 strategies for commercial-line and employee benefits producers alike

Rough Notes

DIFFERENTIATE YOUR BROKERAGE THROUGH PROGRAM DESIGN To be a top-flight consultant of any type and cement your role as a strategic partner, you need to master advanced program-design levers and tighten protections for your client. By Michael Wayne Jul...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Brown & Brown acquires Tire Shield

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Brown & Brown operates more than 700 locations globally with over 23,000 employees.

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

ARAG partners with Bindable to launch Legal Now plan

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ARAG serves over 26 million people worldwide.

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Tune Protect launches CyberSafe with BOXX Insurance

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The product offers real-time alerts, incident response, identity monitoring, threat intelligence, and educational content starting from $4.

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

A better way to manage your sales process

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Transform your agency's sales process with automation that enhances relationships.

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Atrium expands into Credit & Political Risk

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The team will develop a book across Credit and Political risk.

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Relation acquires Bridlewood Insurance

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Bridlewood is a Medicare agency.

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Swiss Re’s Urs Baertschi calls for stronger collaboration to manage rising nat cat losses

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Urs Baertschi, CEO of Property & Casualty Reinsurance at Swiss Re, recently shared his perspective on the challenges and opportunities facing the insurance industry in 2025. Reflecting on his personal aversion to roller coasters, Baertschi com...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

People Moves: Carpenter Taps Aon’s Goodman for Newly Created Role of Chief Client & Growth Officer;...

Insurance Journal

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at the brokers Guy Carpenter and Aon. A summary of these new hires follows here. Carpenter Taps Aon’s Goodman for Newly Created Role of Chief Client & Growth Officer Guy Carpen...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Guy Carpenter names Goodman Chief Client & Growth Officer

Reinsurance News

Guy Carpenter, a Marsh McLennan business, has announced the appointment of Jeremy Goodman as Chief Client & Growth Officer, a newly created global role. Based in New York, Goodman will be reporting to Dean Klisura, President & CEO of Guy C...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

AI Chatbots Need to Fix Suicide Response: Study

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AI Chatbots Need to Fix Suicide Response: Study A study of how three popular artificial intelligence...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Texas, Florida, New York Top List of States With Most Flood-Damaged Cars Back on the Road

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Texas, Florida, New York Top List of States With Most...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Reinsurers’ catastrophe appetite slows in 2025 as pricing softens: S&P

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Although reinsurers continue to expand their natural catastrophe business, the pace of growth has slowed from last year and is expected to remain subdued in 2026 as pricing conditions soften, according to a recent report by S&P Global Ratings....

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Record $121bn alternative capital signals further growth in ILS market: Aon

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Aon’s latest report has revealed that alternative capital surged to a record $121 billion by June 30, 2025, as cedents increasingly turn to solutions beyond the traditional reinsurance market. H1 2025 saw the structuring of 56 catastrophe bonds wi...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Former Alfa Agent in Georgia Pleads Guilty to Misusing Premium Payments

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A fomer Alfa insurance agent in Georgia pleaded guilty Wednesday to using more than $200,000 from one policyholder to cover other expenses, including the premium payments for other insureds. Jeremy Lasseter, of Warner Robins, Georgia, near Macon, was...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

US cyber insurance market sees first decline in premiums since 2018, QualRisk reports

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According to the 2025 US Cyber Insurance Monitor (UCIM) from the advisory firm QualRisk Cyber Insurance Center (QCC), the US cyber insurance market experienced its first reduction in reported premiums since the NAIC began collecting data in 2018....

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Peloton Must Face Shareholder Lawsuit Over Post-Pandemic Outlook

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Peloton Interactive must face a lawsuit claiming it defrauded shareholders by masking excess inventory of its home exercise equipment as the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic passed, a divided federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday. Reversing a lower...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

How Hurricanes, Fires and Floods Put Drugs and Medical Supplies at Risk

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How Hurricanes, Fires and Floods Put Drugs and Medical Supplies at Risk When Hurri...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

McKenzie Intelligence Services and Eagleview partner to support cat response for insurance industry

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McKenzie Intelligence Services (MIS), a provider of geospatial intelligence, and Eagleview, a developer of advanced geospatial technology, have announced a collaboration to strengthen the insurance industry’s capabilities in responding to large-sc...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Ford to Recall Hundreds of Thousands of Vehicles Over Instrument Panel, Leak Issues

Insurance Journal

Ford Motor Company is recalling more than 355,000 trucks in the U.S over a issue with the instrument panel display, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Aug. 27. The recall affects certain Ford 2025-2026 models – F-550 SD, &#823...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Wildfire Burning in Central California Forest Area Is Latest Blaze of Concern

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A fast-growing wildfire burning in central California’s Sierra National Forest in Fresno County in a remote area is the latest blaze of concern for firefighters. The Garnet Fire has burned more than 13,900 acres and is 0% contained, according t...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

DeSantis Unleashes ‘Florida DOGE’ in Quest to Kill Property Taxes

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Ron DeSantis is seeking to complete his project of remaking Florida into a conservative paradise with perhaps his riskiest wager yet: a campaign to largely wipe out property taxes. In his nearly seven years in office, the governor has ushered …

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

TransUnion Says 4.4 Million Consumers’ Data Compromised in Hack

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Credit bureau TransUnion said Thursday that more than 4 million people’s data was exposed in a recent hack involving an unidentified third party. In a letter dated earlier this week and posted to the website of Maine’s attorney general, t...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Accelerant’s net income soars 242% to $13.1m in Q2’25

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Accelerant Holdings has reported a net income of $13.1 million for the second quarter of 2025, marking a 242.4% increase from a net loss of $9.2 million in the same period a year earlier. Total revenues for the quarter reached $219.1 million, up f...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Human Screwworm Case Poses No Risk to Agriculture, Says USDA Official

Insurance Journal

The human case of screwworm reported this week by U.S. health officials is the country’s only one so far this year and poses no risk to the farm sector, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official said on Tuesday. Screwworm, a …

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

ILS market continues to break records: Fitch Ratings

Reinsurance News

Insurance linked securities (ILS) capital has continued to break records in 2025, according to a recent report by Fitch Ratings, with catastrophe bonds issuance reaching unprecedented numbers, total alternative capital also hitting a record high,...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Talanx expands Stephanie Bode’s role in reinsurance leadership

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Talanx Group, the German insurance and reinsurance group and parent company of HDI Global, has expanded Stephanie Bode’s responsibilities within its Reinsurance division. Bode will continue as Head of Reinsurance at HDI Global while also taking on...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Judge to Approve Syracuse Diocese’s $176M Bankruptcy Plan

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The Catholic Diocese of Syracuse reports that the federal judge overseeing its bankruptcy proceedings has indicated she will approve the latest reorganization plan with a $176 million fund to pay sexual abuse claimants. The fund will include $100 mil...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Cyber incident response planning a key control in reducing cyber risk: Marsh

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Cyber incident response planning has emerged as a key cybersecurity control in reducing the likelihood of a breach-related claim, according to a new report from the Cyber Risk Intelligence Center (CRIC) of Marsh McLennan. The report found that org...

Posted: Aug 28, 2025