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Month over month, premium renewal rates declined across all commercial lines of business except general liability and workers’ compensation, Ivans announced Thursday. The finding came from the technology provider’s February 2026 Ivans Ind...
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
Global insurer Liberty Mutual Group renewed its property catastrophe reinsurance programme at the January 1st, 2026, renewals, securing $2.75 billion of occurrence limit excess a $1 billion retention, alongside $500 million of tail aggregate cover...
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
Green Tree Risk Partners Names Page Director Green Tree Risk Partners, headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, named Laura Page as director of Green Tree Risk Partners. Page has 20 years of insurance and leadership experience, previously serving...
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
Virginia-based specialty insurer Richmond National Group plans to invest $1.75 million to expand operations at the firm’s Glen Allen office. The company said it expects to be hiring as many as 75 new employees for the office. “Five years...
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
War risk insurance for vessels transiting the Persian Gulf and Red Sea remains available, although insurers are reassessing their appetite for exposure as tensions in the Middle East disrupt shipping routes and threaten supply chains, according to...
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
Huntington Advisory, a global strategic advisory practice focused on financial institutions, has announced the appointment of Alexander Ankel as Senior Advisor, based in Düsseldorf. The appointment accelerates the firm’s European expansion strateg...
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
The global insurance sector has seen an 87% year-on-year increase in artificial intelligence deployments, according to research by Evident, a London-based provider of AI intelligence and analytics for the insurance industry. Using its Evident AI U...
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
Jio Financial Services Limited has subscribed to and has been allotted 14,74,50,000 equity shares worth ₹10 each of its joint venture Allianz Jio Reinsurance Limited, according to a filing with the National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSE). W...
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
Emirates and Etihad Airways were resuming limited flight schedules to key global cities from their United Arab Emirates hubs on Friday, though the threat of missile fire piled pressure on airlines as they scramble to accommodate travelers. With most...
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
Emirati airlines resumed some flights to global cities from the war-hit Gulf on Friday, but a Lufthansa jet that was headed to the region diverted over safety fears and an Air France repatriation flight was forced to turn back due …
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
Emirati airlines resumed some flights to global cities from the war-hit Gulf on Friday, but a Lufthansa jet that was headed to the region diverted over safety fears and an Air France repatriation flight was forced to turn back due …
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
Westfield Specialty International, a specialty insurance provider, has appointed Abigail Piper as Deputy Class Underwriter, Marine Liability, thereby strengthening its marine proposition. In her role, Piper will be based in London and report direc...
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
More tankers came under attack in Gulf waters on Thursday as the U.S.–Iran war escalated, and Iranian drones entered Azerbaijan, threatening to spread the crisis to more oil producers in the region. A Bahamas-flagged crude oil tanker was targeted by...
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
Global insurer QBE has announced the appointment of Melody Lyndon-Stanford as Head of Client Engagement, effective June 2026. In this newly created role, Lyndon-Stanford will be based in London and report to Matt Lacy, Director of Client Propositi...
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
Antares Group, the UK- and Bermuda-based insurer owned by Qatar Insurance Group, announced that its Commercial division, comprising Lloyd’s Syndicate 1274 and the Antares Reinsurance business in Bermuda, saw premiums rise 11.4% year-on-year to $86...
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Maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a near-complete halt, with no oil shipments going through in the past 24 hours, as the Middle East war disrupts the vital waterway. A review of shipping signals have confirmed …
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
British insurer Aviva has reported an 18% hike in general insurance (GI) premiums to £14.1 billion for the full year of 2025 compared to £12.2 billion for FY’24, with an improved undiscounted combined ratio of 94.6%. 2025 was a strong year for Avi...
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
mea Platform, an AI-driven insurance technology company, today announced that Julie McKenna has been appointed Vice President of Sales, North America. The move strengthens mea’s leadership team as the company scales mea Operations, following a $50...
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
European Union countries gave the final approval on Thursday to a new climate target to slash greenhouse gas emissions 90% by 2040, pressing ahead with the bloc’s ambitious climate agenda despite political resistance. The new climate target is...
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
Seafarers have the right to refuse to sail on ships passing through the Middle East Gulf, including the Strait of Hormuz, after the threat level for the region was raised to its highest level, the leading labor union and shipping …
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
A group of 24 U.S. states sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday in the first legal challenge to his newly imposed 10% global tariffs, alleging that the president cannot sidestep a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that invalid...
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
U.S. railroads including CSX Corp, Union Pacific and BNSF are moving to recapture freight from truckers as tightening trucking capacity and rising road-haul rates bolster rail’s competitive position. For years, low trucking rates and greater fl...
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
A year after it was acquired by its CEO’s new holding company, Universal North America has added offices in Florida and changed its name. Universal Insurance Co. of North America, admitted in Florida with offices in Sarasota and in Orlando, ...
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
Even if self-driving vehicles become legally possible in Virginia, they’d have to get through several more rounds of discussion and possible regulation before they could hit the road. Sen. Saddam Salim (D-37), the chief patron of legislation in...
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
Local governments spent $3 million in opioid settlement funds last year on projects ranging from addiction treatment in jails to prevention workshops in schools, according to new data collected by the attorney general’s office and the Universit...
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK), a global specialty insurer, has appointed Sarah Tidbury as Portfolio Solutions Underwriter, effective immediately. She reports to Rob Jarvis, Head of Innovation Underwriting. This appointment reflects TMK’s continued...
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI failed to convince a California federal court on Thursday to temporarily block the state’s law requiring companies to disclose information about the data they use to train AI models. U.S. Di...
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
Insurance issues were the most frequent complaint fielded by the Oregon Division of Financial Regulation last year. In the final quarter of 2025, the DFR received 935 insurance complaints, bringing the total of 3,700 insurance complaints for last yea...
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
Insurance Is Learning a Legal Lesson Regulation & Public Policy ClareCarroll1...
Posted: Mar 06, 2026
The collaboration aims to reduce manual work and improve underwriting efficiency.
Posted: Mar 05, 2026
Steadily offers landlord and short term rental insurance coverage across all 50 states.
Posted: Mar 05, 2026
Ivans Index is a data-driven report of current conditions and trends for premium rate renewal change of the most placed commercial lines of business in the insurance industry.
Posted: Mar 05, 2026
Applied Systems announced that Sabatino/Mastrocola Insurance Agency will adopt its Applied Digital Agency platform.
Posted: Mar 05, 2026
The company reported a net underwriting gain of $2.6 billion in property-casualty lines.
Posted: Mar 05, 2026
Entertainment customers and brokers working with Allianz will be served by one dedicated distribution partner.
Posted: Mar 05, 2026