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On the back of a strong 2025, Fitch expects the four largest European reinsurers to maintain balance-sheet resilience into 2026, driven by strong capital generation and reserve strengthening, despite a ‘deteriorating’ global reinsurance sector out...
Posted: Mar 20, 2026
Sompo Asia Pacific (Sompo APAC), part of Sompo International Holdings Ltd., has announced the appointment of Alice Sun as Senior Casualty Underwriter, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan at Sompo Hong Kong. In her new role, Sun will play a key part in exe...
Posted: Mar 20, 2026
Israel and Iran launched fresh attacks on each other on Friday, a day after Tehran struck an Israeli oil refinery and after U.S. President Donald Trump warned Israel against further attacks on an Iranian offshore gas field shared with Qatar. …
Posted: Mar 20, 2026
The U.S. military is deploying a large amphibious assault ship with thousands of additional Marines and sailors to the Middle East, three U.S. officials told Reuters on Friday, as Iran’s new supreme leader hailed Iran’s “unity”...
Posted: Mar 20, 2026
The U.S. military is deploying thousands of Marines to the Middle East, officials told Reuters on Friday, as President Donald Trump accused NATO allies of cowardice over their reluctance to send forces to help open the Strait of Hormuz. The …
Posted: Mar 20, 2026
A new Gallagher Re report has indicated that the March 15–16 severe convective storm (SCS) outbreak is on track to become the second U.S. SCS event of the year to generate more than $1 billion in industry losses, occurring within the span of a sin...
Posted: Mar 20, 2026
Atrium, a specialty insurer operating at Lloyd’s, has announced several leadership and team appointments within its Property Business Group. Natalie Dubois and Thomas Hobbs have been promoted to joint Head of US & Canada Property Binders. Emil...
Posted: Mar 20, 2026
Hippo Holdings Inc., a US-based insurer specialising in homeowners cover and data-led underwriting, has entered into a distribution arrangement with Progressive Insurance, enabling Hippo’s policies to be offered through Progressive’s existin...
Posted: Mar 20, 2026
Global insurance and reinsurance broking group Aon has announced the appointment of Fabio Martinez as Head of Health & Talent for Brazil. In his new role, Martinez will lead the health and talent strategies of Aon’s Brazilian operations, suppo...
Posted: Mar 20, 2026
CopperPoint Insurance Companies, a provider of workers’ compensation and commercial property and casualty insurance solutions, has announced the appointment of Mark Woods as Senior Vice President, Head of Product. In this role, Woods will lead the...
Posted: Mar 20, 2026
P/C Industry Loss Reserves Redundant by More...
Posted: Mar 20, 2026
AM Best has upgraded Hanoi Reinsurance Joint Stock Corporation’s (Hanoi Re) Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) to “bbb+” (Good) from “bbb” (Good), and revised the outlook to stable from positive. The ratings agency also affirmed Hanoi...
Posted: Mar 20, 2026
QBE, in partnership with Aurora, has introduced an integrated algorithmic underwriting system that functions entirely within the insurer’s existing governance, risk appetite, and operational procedures. Developed with QBE Ventures, this solution e...
Posted: Mar 20, 2026
Posted: Mar 20, 2026
A powerful software exploit capable of penetrating and stealing information from potentially hundreds of millions of Apple iPhones was planted on dozens of websites in Ukraine in recent weeks, researchers said on Wednesday. The discovery marks the se...
Posted: Mar 20, 2026
Insurtech Hippo announced that its homeowners insurance products have been added to Progressive’s HomeQuote Explorer, available online and through Progressive in-house agents in eight states. Hippo said the distribution relationship began earli...
Posted: Mar 20, 2026
Europe’s biggest naval powers don’t see away of reopening the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping before the Iran war subsides. The continent continues to resist Donald Trump’s calls to deploy warships to the strait over fears t...
Posted: Mar 20, 2026
Even in an age of frequent mass shootings in public places, a shooting can be unforeseeable and a supermarket has no duty to protect customers from random acts of violence, a Florida appeals court decided in a major win for …
Posted: Mar 20, 2026
CopperPoint Insurance Companies named Mark Woods senior vice president, head of product. Woods leads the integration of underwriting product and systems, guides geographic and product expansion strategies. Woods has more than 18 years of insurance ex...
Posted: Mar 20, 2026
A New Jersey public school district may be held vicariously liable for sexual abuse by a teacher even if the abuse took place outside of the scope of the teacher’s employment and off school property. The New Jersey Supreme Court …
Posted: Mar 20, 2026
A New Jersey public school district may be held vicariously liable for sexual abuse by a teacher even if the abuse took place outside of the scope of the teacher’s employment and off school property. The New Jersey Supreme Court …
Posted: Mar 20, 2026
A New Jersey public school district may be held vicariously liable for sexual abuse by a teacher even if the abuse took place outside of the scope of the teacher’s employment and off school property. The New Jersey Supreme Court …
Posted: Mar 20, 2026
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration wants to stop representing Eric Adams in a lawsuit that alleges the former mayor sexually assaulted a woman more than three decades ago, according to a court filing Tuesday. The move comes jus...
Posted: Mar 20, 2026
When passengers step onto an airplane, they’re accustomed to turbulence, seat kicking and lengthy tarmac delays. Those are the predictable annoyances of air travel. But a far more serious risk to the safety of flyers has received heightened att...
Posted: Mar 19, 2026
The Standard acquired this Canadian block of business from Allstate in 2025.
Posted: Mar 19, 2026
Uber will invest up to $1.25 billion in Rivian through 2031.
Posted: Mar 19, 2026
Arch will act as the lead underwriter for the consortium.
Posted: Mar 19, 2026
Sureify, a life and annuity technology platform provider for carriers, proudly sponsored and participated on the winning team at the 2026 Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) Hackathon. Team “Hack to the Future” came...
Posted: Mar 19, 2026
On March 19, Quility was named “InsurTech Company of the Year” in the 2026 FinTech Breakthrough Awards.
Posted: Mar 19, 2026
Loss Trends Outpacing Pricing Assumptions: Other Liabi...
Posted: Mar 19, 2026
AI-driven change is reshaping how insurers balance core system implementation risk against the growing operational cost of delay.
Posted: Mar 19, 2026
The insurer aligns leadership, talent development and purpose to sustain engagement and enable an AI-augmented workforce.
Posted: Mar 19, 2026
The insurer will deploy property intelligence models to improve risk assessment, streamline underwriting workflows and reduce reliance on inspections.
Posted: Mar 19, 2026
About 2,400 Kaiser Permanente mental health professionals were striking Wednesday in Northern California over concerns that the health care giant is replacing therapists with artificial intelligence. Kaiser says the union claim is false and AI will n...
Posted: Mar 19, 2026
Disasters Expo USA brings together professionals from across the disaster sector, including government, NGOs, responders, and industry leaders. The two-day event focuses on collaboration, innovation, and resilience, featuring keynotes, panels, wor...
Posted: Mar 19, 2026