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SC Governor Celebrates Dram Shop-Tort Reform Law But Some Want More

Insurance Journal

South Carolina’s governor has signed a liquor liability and tort-reform bill into law, but some lawmakers said broader changes to the state’s legal system are needed. Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey, who helped push through a compromi...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Aspen appoints Lee Elliston as Chief Operating Officer, Claims & UK

Reinsurance News

Aspen Insurance Group, a specialty insurer and reinsurer, has announced the appointment of Lee Elliston as Chief Operating Officer, Claims & UK. Elliston joined Aspen in January 2022 and has served as Chief Operating Officer, Group Claims sinc...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Iranian Pleads Guilty in US to 2019 Baltimore Ransomware Attack

Insurance Journal

An Iranian national pleaded guilty to participating in the high-profile 2019 Baltimore, Maryland, ransomware attack, among others, and to causing tens of millions of dollars in losses and disrupted services, the Department of Justice said on Tuesday....

Posted: May 29, 2025

UK P&I Club’s free reserves rise to $494m despite challenging policy year

Reinsurance News

The UK P&I Club reported continued growth at the end of the 2024/2025 financial year, with a 6.6% investment return increasing the Club’s free reserves to $494 million, despite a challenging policy year for the sector. The rise in free reserve...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Nurse Showed COVID Was Work-Contracted, West Virginia Supreme Court Rules

Insurance Journal

The West Virginia Supreme Court has ruled 3-2 that a prison nurse is entitled to workers’ compensation benefits for her COVID-19 disease because she provided sufficient evidence that she contracted it in her workplace and not outside of work. B...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Helios posts retained underwriting profit of £31.4m for 2024

Reinsurance News

Helios Underwriting has reported preliminary retained underwriting profit of £31.4 million in its 2024 results, which remains relatively flat compared to 2023’s £31.6 million. The company, which offers instant access to a diverse portfolio of synd...

Posted: May 29, 2025

US Court Blocks Most Trump Tariffs, Says President Exceeded His Authority

Insurance Journal

A U.S. trade court blocked most of President Donald Trump’s tariffs in a sweeping ruling on Wednesday that found the president overstepped his authority by imposing across-the-board duties on imports from U.S. trading partners. The Court of Int...

Posted: May 29, 2025

TOP 5 ESSENTIAL PREPAREDNESS TIPS

Rough Notes

 Ways you can help get business owners ready for wildfires and hurricanes  While I live by the motto, “Stay ready,” instead of “Get ready,” or “Get prepared,” in reality not everyone is ready for the possibility of what a wildfire or hurricane could...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Moody’s improves Generali’s outlook to positive from stable

Reinsurance News

Moody’s Ratings has revised the outlook on Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A. (Generali) to positive from stable and affirmed its A3 Insurance Financial Strength Rating (IFSR). The outlooks on Generali’s main operating insurance subsidiaries in Italy,...

Posted: May 29, 2025

SanlamAllianz Re’s Synapse 2025 a catalyst for collaboration on Africa’s future

Reinsurance News

SanlamAllianz Re’s Synapse 2025 event served as a catalyst for bold dialogue, strategic partnerships, and forward-thinking innovation, reinforcing confidence in Africa’s future, according to the reinsurance provider’s CEO, Ilyes Hassib. More than...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Markets/Coverages: MGA Rokstone Launches International Casualty Division

Insurance Journal

Rokstone, the London-based specialty re/insurance MGA that is part of the Aventum Group, announced the launch of its International Casualty Division. The move marks the latest milestone in Rokstone’s strategic build-out of its casualty portfoli...

Posted: May 29, 2025

LA wildfires won’t affect reinsurer appetite or growth plans at June 1: Guy Carpenter

Reinsurance News

Discussing how the Florida-focused June reinsurance renewals are shaping up, Randy Fuller, Managing Director, Guy Carpenter, the reinsurance broking arm of Marsh McLennan, has suggested the California wildfires in Q1 are not expected to have a mea...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Peter Clarke to succeed Colin Keogh as Hiscox Chair

Reinsurance News

International specialist insurer Hiscox has announced the appointment of Peter Clarke as the Group’s new Chair designate, subject to regulatory approval. Clarke is set to take over the Board as Chair designate on June 1, 2025, succeeding Colin Keo...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Sony Says Spin-off Will Give Financial Arm Its Own Fundraising Capabilities

Insurance Journal

Sony’s CEO said on Thursday the spin-off of the group’s financial services arm will give that business its own fundraising capabilities. “It is significant that, through the spin-off, Sony (Financial Group) will secure its own fundr...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Sony Says Spin-Off Will Give Financial Arm Fundraising Capabilities

Insurance Journal

Sony’s CEO said on Thursday the spin-off of the group’s financial services arm will give that business its own fundraising capabilities. “It is significant that, through the spin-off, Sony (Financial Group) will secure its own fundr...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Adam Payne appointed Deputy Head of Digital Underwriting at Atrium

Reinsurance News

Atrium, a specialty insurer at Lloyd’s, has promoted Adam Payne to the role of Deputy Head of Digital Underwriting. In this position, he will work in close partnership with Simon Lewis, Head of Digital Underwriting, to enhance Atrium’s digital inf...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Hiscox Appoints Clarke as Chair Designate

Insurance Journal

Hiscox Ltd., the Bermuda-based specialist insurer, announces the appointment of Peter Clarke as chair designate, subject to regulatory approval. Clarke will join the board as chair designate on June 1, 2025 and will succeed Colin Keogh as chair with...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Hiscox Appoints Clarke as Chairman Designate

Insurance Journal

Hiscox Ltd., the Bermuda-based specialist insurer, announces the appointment of Peter Clarke as chair designate, subject to regulatory approval. Clarke will join the board as chair designate on June 1, 2025 and will succeed Colin Keogh as chair with...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Asian Re achieves strong growth and credit rating upgrade in 2024: AM Best

Reinsurance News

Asian Reinsurance Corporation (Asian Re), a Thailand-based reinsurer providing risk transfer solutions across Asia in Thailand, has shown notable progress in its financial and operational performance during 2024. The company achieved a combined ra...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Rokstone launches International Casualty Division, names Wylie Portfolio Manager

Reinsurance News

Rokstone, the international specialty re/insurance MGA and part of the Aventum Group, is strengthening its global specialty offering with the launch of its International Casualty Division. Sam Wylie has been appointed Portfolio Manager of the new...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Moody’s affirms Chinese insurer ratings, but cites trade tension risk

Reinsurance News

Moody’s Ratings has affirmed the ratings and maintained negative outlooks on eight Chinese insurers and one related overseas subsidiary, following its affirmation of China’s A1 sovereign rating with a negative outlook. The nine insurers affected a...

Posted: May 29, 2025

UK Authorities Charge Director at Center of Fake Plane Parts Probe

Insurance Journal

The former director of a firm at the center of a global investigation into bogus airplane parts was charged with fraud by UK authorities. The Serious Fraud Office charged AOG Technics Ltd.’s director, Jose Alejandro Zamora Yrala, with fraudulen...

Posted: May 29, 2025

AXA XL Re appoints Petya Ivanova as Head of Property, Intl Reinsurance

Reinsurance News

AXA XL Reinsurance has announced the appointment of Petya Ivanova as Head of Property, International Reinsurance, effective July 1st, 2025. In her new role, Ivanova will oversee the company’s international property portfolio, working closely with...

Posted: May 29, 2025

AXA XL Re appoints Petya Ivanova as Head of Property, Intl. Reinsurance

Reinsurance News

AXA XL Reinsurance has announced the appointment of Petya Ivanova as Head of Property, International Reinsurance, effective July 1st, 2025. In her new role, Ivanova will oversee the company’s international property portfolio, working closely with...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Core Specialty adds Patrick Gordon to its Board

Reinsurance News

Core Specialty Insurance Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries have appointed Patrick Gordon to the company’s Board of Directors, effective immediately. Gordon replaces Marc Stad on the board, who has served as a Director Designated by Dragoneer Inv...

Posted: May 29, 2025

S&P Downgrades USAA Ratings

Carrier Management

S&P Downgrades USAA Ratings S&P Global Ratings announced that it lowered its financial strength and counterparty credit ratings on United Services Automobile Association (USAA) and its core insurance subsidiaries to "AA" ...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Tesla Targets June 12 Launch of Robotaxi Service in Austin

Insurance Journal

Tesla Inc. is poised to begin its long-awaited robotaxi service in Austin on June 12, according to a person familiar with the matter, a milestone in Elon Musk’s plan to reshape the company around driverless vehicles and artificial intelligence....

Posted: May 29, 2025

Missouri Special Session to Include Discussion on Aid for Tornado Victims

Insurance Journal

Missouri lawmakers are to kick off a special session Monday to consider aid for tornado victims and a package of financial incentives aimed at keeping the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals from leaving the state for new or improved facilities …

Posted: May 29, 2025

S&P lowers USAA rating, citing bank weakness and insurance gains

Reinsurance News

S&P Global Ratings, a provider of independent credit assessments and financial analysis, has downgraded the credit ratings of United Services Automobile Association (USAA) and its core insurance subsidiaries from ‘AA+’ to ‘AA’. The ratings fir...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Michigan Court Ends Effort to Sue Oxford School Staff Over Mass Shooting

Insurance Journal

The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed appeals by families of students killed or wounded at Oxford High School in 2021, ending efforts to hold employees partly responsible for the mass shooting. Under Michigan law, immunity is a high hurdl...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Root names Oliver Evans as Head of Growth UK to support expansion plans

Reinsurance News

Root Platform, the API-first core platform for delegated authority insurance business, has announced the appointment of Oliver Evans as its new Head of Growth UK, supporting Root’s ongoing plans to expand within the UK insurance market. Evans has...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Wildfire Experience Inspires New Contents Claims InsurTech

Insurance Journal

When Michael Balarezo emerged from the basement office of his Boulder, Colo., home in December 2021, smoke plumes from the nearby Marshall Fire were visible from his driveway. Balarezo, his wife and daughter swiftly stowed emergency clothing, sensiti...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Wildfire Experience Inspires New Contents Claims Insurtech

Insurance Journal

When Michael Balarezo emerged from the basement office of his Boulder, Colo., home in December 2021, smoke plumes from the nearby Marshall Fire were visible from his driveway. Balarezo, his wife and daughter swiftly stowed emergency clothing, sensiti...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Cargo Ship That Ran Aground in Norway, Nearly Hitting a House, Is Towed Back to Sea

Insurance Journal

A cargo ship that ran aground in a Norwegian fjord and narrowly missed a house, was pulled back into open water and was being towed to a nearby harbor on Tuesday — five days after the spectacular accident. A tugboat …

Posted: May 29, 2025

US Agrees to End Use of Race, Gender in Highway, Transit Contracts

Insurance Journal

The Trump administration said on Wednesday it has agreed to end the U.S. Transportation Department’s consideration of race or gender when awarding billions of dollars in federal highway and transit project funding set aside for disadvantaged sm...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Viewpoint: Global Reinsurers Stand Strong Amid Investment Volatility, Natural Disasters

Insurance Journal

The reinsurance industry has shown significant improvements in operating performance in recent years. Despite facing substantial insured natural catastrophe losses globally, reinsurers achieved robust earnings growth in 2023 and 2024 exceeding their...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Emergency Management Director for Florida Keys Braces for Hurricane Season

Insurance Journal

No place is more vulnerable to hurricanes in the 50 U.S. states than the Florida Keys. The chain of islands celebrated by singer Jimmy Buffett in his odes to tropical escapism is surrounded by water, jutting out 120 miles southwesterly …

Posted: May 29, 2025

Lawsuit Says Former Trident Exchange CEO Was ‘Self-Dealing’ on IT Work

Insurance Journal

A lawsuit filed by the parent company of Florida-based Trident Reciprocal Exchange charges that the insurer’s former CEO and co-founder secretly funneled more than $400,000 to her and her husband’s accounting firm for computer services th...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Definity’s Travelers Canada Deal Could Prompt Wave of Consolidation, CEO Says

Insurance Journal

Canadian property and casualty insurer Definity Financial’s $2.4 billion purchase of Travelers Cos.’ Canadian business could spur a wave of consolidation in Canada’s insurance sector, its CEO said. The deal announced Tuesday will es...

Posted: May 29, 2025

GCM launches new solution to help businesses enter captive insurance space

Reinsurance News

Global Captive Management, Ltd. (GCM) has announced the launch of ‘Outcomes SPC’, a new solution that will offer businesses a cost-effective, streamlined way to enter the captive insurance space. This will allow younger, smaller, or more entrepren...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Hawaii Governor Signs Hotel Tax Bill to Help With Climate Change Through Mitigation

Insurance Journal

Hawaii’s governor signed legislation this week that boosts a tax imposed on hotel room and vacation rental stays in order to raise money to address eroding shorelines, wildfires and other consequences of climate change. The signing, which comes...

Posted: May 29, 2025

OSHA Settles With New Jersey Bakery Where Finger Amputations Occurred

Insurance Journal

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has reached a settlement agreement with a New Jersey commercial bakery where an employee suffered partial finger amputations in 2023. The company, Valenti’s Bakery, has agreed to...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Certification Enables California, Oregon Homeowners to Earn Premium Discounts

Insurance Journal

Homeowners in California and Oregon in high-risk wildfire areas can earn discounts on insurance premiums through a new certification program to take mitigation steps to reduce risk. Mercury Insurance partnered with the Insurance Institute for Busines...

Posted: May 29, 2025

California Joint Law Enforcement Efforts Lead to 4,800 Stolen Vehicles Recovered

Insurance Journal

Joint law enforcement operations in Bakersfield, Oakland, and San Bernardino have made 6,727 arrests, recovered 4,842 stolen vehicles and confiscated 313 dangerous firearms, according to an announcement from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office. The ongo...

Posted: May 29, 2025

People Moves: Third Generation Joins Sgroi Lawley; Plymouth Rock Names Finn: WTW’s Puckett Joins Pro...

Insurance Journal

Third Generation Joins Sgroi Lawley Group LLC Timothy Sgroi joined the team at Sgroi Lawley Group LLC, headquartered in Seneca, New York. Timothy Sgroi is the son of partner Patrick Sgroi and represents the third generation of the Sgroi family &#8230...

Posted: May 29, 2025

People Moves: Third Generation Joins Sgroi Lawley; Plymouth Rock Names Finn CMO; WTW’s Puckett Joins...

Insurance Journal

Third Generation Joins Sgroi Lawley Group LLC Timothy Sgroi joined the team at Sgroi Lawley Group LLC, headquartered in Seneca, New York. Timothy Sgroi is the son of partner Patrick Sgroi and represents the third generation of the Sgroi family &#8230...

Posted: May 29, 2025

Aviva Goes Live with Reltio Data Cloud for Real-Time Customer Intelligence

IIR

The British insurer has unified 37 million customer profiles to drive personalized engagement and operational efficiency.

Posted: May 28, 2025

Triple-I’s New Issues Brief Suggests Link Between Attorney Advertising, Mass Torts, Third-Party Liti...

Insurance Information Institute

For Immediate Release  Loretta Worters New York Press Office 917-208-8842 [email protected]    MALVERN, Pa., May 29, 2025 – The Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I) has released its latest issues brief, Legal System Abuse and Attorney Advertisin...

Posted: May 28, 2025

Unbound Raises $4M to Help Enterprises Govern AI Use Securely

IIR

Insurance companies are among the early users of platform that redacts PII and routes sensitive AI prompts.

Posted: May 28, 2025

Insight Risk Launches Program to Reduce Water Damage Deductibles

IIR

The new initiative helps U.S. contractors lower builder’s risk policy costs through water damage prevention technology.

Posted: May 28, 2025