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Underwriting Q&A: Building Smarter Risk Tools

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Underwriting Q&A: Building Smarter Risk Tools From Our Partners sradomski Fri, 08/15/2025...

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Modives and Venn launch renters insurance solution

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The partnership embeds Modives’ CheckMy Resident platform into Venn’s resident operating system.

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Plymouth Rock and Innovative launch auto discount program

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The program gives Innovative’s clients and employees exclusive discounts.

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

TPA adopts CalcFocus for life and annuity

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The end-to-end solution will cover sales illustrations, new business processing, billing, commissions, and claims.

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

PCRB launches WorkComp360

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Upcoming features include a statewide dashboard and DataPro+.

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Infinity Loop raises $5 million

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The funding will support go-to-market expansion, with clients in financial services, consumer packaged goods, and pharmaceuticals.

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

KBTG Teams Up with InsureMO to Build Thailand’s Connected Insurance Ecosystem

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KBTG and InsureMO join forces to enable embedded insurance in Thailand to offer insurance products—travel, health, and accident—directly on their platforms via API in sectors like retail, e-commerce, real estate, healthcare, and travel.

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

First Hurricane of the Season to Bring Rain, Flooding, and Rip Tides to US

Carrier Management

First Hurricane of the Season to Bring Rain, Flooding, and Rip Tides to US The first h...

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

DOJ Sues California to End Enforcement of Emissions Standards for Trucks

Insurance Journal

The U.S. Justice Department said on Friday it has sued California in a bid to end the state’s enforcement of emissions standards for trucks. The DOJ said it filed two complaints this week in federal courts against the California Air …

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Michelle Worrall Appointed Global Director of Insurance Product at Resilience

Risk & Insurance

The latest people news in the industry today. The post Michelle Worrall Appointed Global Director of Insurance Product at...

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Banking’s Ailing Climate Coalition Loses Ground in Europe

Insurance Journal

Inside the world’s largest climate coalition for banks, there’s speculation that an exodus led by Wall Street could be about to spread to the European Union. The Net-Zero Banking Alliance, an organization dedicated to decarbonizing global...

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Markel Insurance Appoints Alison Sweeney and Ije Ejim to US Fine Art & Specie Team

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The latest people news in the industry today. The post Markel Insurance Appoints Alison Sweeney and Ije Ejim to US Fine...

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Ohio’s Roehr Insurance Partners With Higginbotham

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Higginbotham announced it has partnered with Roehr Insurance, one of the largest property and casualty insurance agencies in Cincinnati, Ohio. The partnership grows Higginbotham’s presence in the Midwest and provides Roehr with expanded resourc...

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Insurtech Funding Hits $60 Billion Milestone as AI Deals Dominate Despite Quarterly Decline

Risk & Insurance

Property and casualty insurtech funding plummets while life and health surges in mixed Q2 results, Gallagher Re reports. The post

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Pete Sayer Joins Brown & Riding as Senior Vice President in National Property Practice

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The latest people news in the industry today. The post Pete Sayer Joins Brown & Riding as Senior Vice Presiden...

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Dragos report estimates up to $330bn in global OT cyber risk

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Dragos Inc., a company specialising in cybersecurity for operational technology (OT) environments, has released its 2025 OT Security Financial Risk Report, produced with Marsh McLennan’s Cyber Risk Intelligence Center. The report applies statistic...

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

New River Barriers Prevented Severe Flood Damage From Alaska Glacier

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New River Barriers Prevented Severe Flood Damage From Alaska Glacier New sandbag-style barriers install...

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Expects to Spend ‘Trillions’ on Infrastructure

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OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman wants to spend trillions of dollars over time on the infrastructure required to develop and run artificial intelligence services. He just needs to figure out a way to raise that kind of money. “You &#82...

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Texas Economy Slowing Amid Trade Policies and Immigration Crackdown

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All signs point to a slowdown of the Texas economy as job growth slows, construction declines and inflation ticks up, according to a Monday report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The report on the Fed’s recent Texas Business …

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Chubb appoints Kim Hare as SVP, Head of NA Property Claims

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Global insurer Chubb has announced the appointment of Kim Hare as Senior Vice President (SVP), Head of North America Property Claims, effective August 18th, 2025. Hare will succeed Tim Barziza, who will retire next April after more than three deca...

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Women's Leadership Improves Insurance AI

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Women's Leadership Improves Insurance AI ITL Editorial Team Fri, 08/15/2025 - 10:56 ...

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Life Insurance Needs More Women Leaders

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Life Insurance Needs More Women Leaders Leadership

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Texas Students Injured in School Bus Rollover Crash

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A Texas school bus carrying more than 40 students on Wednesday rolled over after veering off a rural road on the first day of class, injuring multiple students, authorities said. At least one person has life-threatening injuries, while two others &#8...

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Chicago Launches Flood-Warning System as Rainstorms Intensify

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Nedra Sims Fears still remembers the night years ago when her family home in Chicago flooded, sparking an electrical fire. Her father woke her up and rushed her outside into the pouring rain as smoke filled the rooms of their …

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Sapiens and Earnix partner to streamline pricing and policy for P&C insurers in EMEA & APAC

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Sapiens International Corporation, a global provider of software solutions for the insurance industry, and Earnix, an AI Platform for insurance providers, have partnered to enhance operational efficiency for P&C Insurers in Europe, the Middle...

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

New Mexico Governor Declares State of Emergency in County Afflicted by Crime

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The governor of New Mexico declared a state of emergency in response to violent crime and drug trafficking across a swath of northern New Mexico, including two Native American pueblo communities. The emergency declaration by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grish...

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Canada’s secondary peril losses demand new risk management strategies: Swiss Re

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Jolee Crosby, CEO of Reinsurance Canada at Swiss Re, highlights the urgent need for the insurance industry to respond to the increasing financial impact of secondary natural hazards in Canada. As the country faces a rise in costly floods, wildfire...

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Potential merger of Indonesian reinsurers could weaken capital profile without fresh funding: Fitch

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Fitch Ratings, a credit rating agency, stated on 14 August 2025 in Sydney and Jakarta that the proposed consolidation of three Indonesian reinsurers could undermine the capital strength of the domestic reinsurance sector in the absence of fresh ca...

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Aon Accused of Contributing to Collapse of Startup Vesttoo

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Insurance broker Aon Plc was accused in a civil lawsuit of helping cause the collapse of Vesttoo Ltd., an Israeli insurance startup once valued at $1 billion that went bankrupt after disclosing certain documents underpinning its business were falsifi...

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Alabama DOI Posts New Data Call on Liability Insurance

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The Alabama Department of Insurance wants new data on how liability coverage affects insurance claims costs. In a bulletin posted Thursday, Commissioner Mark Fowler said the department has issued a data call to carriers of personal and commercial aut...

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Dedicated reinsurance capital to hit record $649bn in 2025: AM Best/GC

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Global dedicated reinsurance capital is projected to climb to an unprecedented $649 billion in 2025, according to estimates from AM Best and Guy Carpenter. As readers will see from the image below, the anticipated 2025 figure would surpass the pre...

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

West Virginia Will Finally Study How to Protect Communities After 2016 Floods

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Nearly a decade after the deadly 2016 floods, West Virginia officials are moving forward with a study to look at flood mitigation measures across the Kanawha River Basin. Last month, Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced that the state will work with &#823...

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Blenheim Underwriting appoints Alex Stratton-Thomsett as Casualty Underwriter

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Blenheim Underwriting, a specialist managing general agent (MGA) and Lloyd’s coverholder, has appointed Alex Stratton-Thomsett as Casualty Underwriter, effective 8 January 2026. In his new role, Stratton-Thomsett will collaborate with David Barber...

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Equitable takes step to mitigate mortality risk with major reinsurance deal

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Equitable Holdings, a financial services company specialising in retirement, wealth management, and protection solutions, has recently announced that it has completed a major strategic transaction aimed at substantially reducing its exposure to mo...

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Kalepa expands technology partnership with W. R. Berkley Corporation affiliate

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Kalepa, a company specialising in underwriting technology solutions, has entered into an agreement with an affiliate of W. R. Berkley Corporation, a commercial lines insurance provider in the United States. The agreement will broaden the use of Ka...

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

July renewal rates up across all commercial lines except Workers’ Comp: Ivans

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Ivans, a division of Applied Systems, has released the July 2025 results of the Ivans Index, showing that average premium renewal rates increased year over year across all major commercial lines of business except Workers’ Compensation. Month over...

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Marsh launches BrokerSafe amid ongoing challenges in freight broker auto liability market

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Marsh, an insurance broker and risk advisor under Marsh McLennan, has introduced BrokerSafe, an insurance facility aimed at US freight brokers seeking access to auto liability coverage in a market where options have become more limited and costly....

Posted: Aug 15, 2025

Orion180 and Neural Earth partner to advance homeowners insurance risk assessment

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Orion180, a provider of insurance solutions, and Neural Earth Inc., a company specialising in AI-based geospatial risk analytics, have announced a partnership aimed at improving how homeowners insurance risks are assessed, priced, and managed. As...

Posted: Aug 15, 2025