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Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Premium renewal rates increased year-over-year for all major commercial lines, except workers’ compensation, according to fourth quarter 2025 results of the Ivans Index. “The commercial insurance market remains firm overall, though renewa...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
The defence industry is experiencing surging demand amid an increasingly volatile geopolitical landscape, but is constrained by lagging production, economic nationalism, fiscal fragility, and supply chain risks, according to a new report from Oxfo...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
The auto sector is bracing for yet another potential supply chain disturbance, this time spurred by the rush to build data centers that train and develop artificial intelligence models. A shortage of memory chips caused by the data center boom …...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Days after announcing a deal to equip 10,000 engineers and data scientists at Travelers with AI assistants, the insurance company’s leader detailed “differentiating domain expertise” around data and technology, which fuel long-term...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Hot on the heels of a significant rate cut in December, Florida’s Security First Insurance has announced another average decrease for one of its homeowners products. The use-and-file decrease will average about 5.2% for the carrier’s Sign...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
A bill to provide restitution to policyholders harmed by their insurer or agent passed the Washington Senate on Wednesday on a 29 to 20 vote. The bill, sponsored by Insurance Commissioner Patty Kuderer and sponsored by Senator Adrian Cortes (D–Battle...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Relation Insurance Services has acquired the assets of PT Business Solutions in South Pasadena, California. PT Business Solutions is a provider of employee benefit, HR, payroll, workers’ compensation and group retirement plans. The agency has b...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
In the state’s seventh round of medical debt relief, outgoing Governor Phil Murphy announced that nearly 14,000 New Jersey residents will see almost $16 million in medical bills abolished. The relief is a result of the state’s ongoing par...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Estee Lauder was sued by a self-described “disruptive” startup that accused the cosmetics giant of effectively putting it out of business by stealing technology to boost sales from jet-setting travelers in hotels. In a complaint filed on...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
EverPeak Insurance Names Kranz President EverPeak Insurance created a unified leadership team headed by Kathy Kranz. Kranz most recently served as interim COO at EverPeak. She previously served a long tenure as CFO of Pinnacol Assurance. The new Ever...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Global insurer American International Group (AIG) has announced the promotion of Neil Smallcombe as President, Lexington Insurance Company, the firm’s U.S. surplus lines insurer. In his new role, Smallcombe will leverage his over two decades of in...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
CEO Revenue Confidence Hits 5-Year Low: PwC Survey Only three in 10 chief executi...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
The integration enables personalized motor coverage for EV salary sacrifice customers using Octopus Electric Vehicles’ leasing platform.
Posted: Jan 22, 2026
The Mutual Group’s Vineet Bansal frames AI as a disciplined way for mutual insurers to scale without losing trust or identity.
Posted: Jan 22, 2026
The appointment supports profitable growth and expands reach into the independent agency channel.
Posted: Jan 22, 2026
As AI enthusiasm accelerates, carriers face a quieter challenge: data discipline, process redesign, and change management determine real value.
Posted: Jan 22, 2026
The new initiative aims to streamline collaboration and support implementation, integration, and go-to-market efforts across more than 200 partners.
Posted: Jan 22, 2026
Nearly five years after Winter Storm Uri sparked widespread power outages and killed hundreds of Texans, officials and residents are once more girding for a round of severe winter weather that will blanket large parts of the state. Dangerously cold &...
Posted: Jan 22, 2026
Nearly five years after Winter Storm Uri sparked widespread power outages and killed hundreds of Texans, officials and residents are once more girding for a round of severe winter weather that will blanket large parts of the state. Dangerously cold &...
Posted: Jan 22, 2026
Posted: Jan 22, 2026
As automation takes over administrative tasks, claims specialists are discovering new opportunities to focus on what technology cannot replicate: empathy, judgment, and meaningful communication with injured workers. The post
Posted: Jan 22, 2026
One-on-one meetings with limited partners and general partners will be available. The post Insurance Investment Conference Slated for Philly...
Posted: Jan 22, 2026
Posted: Jan 22, 2026
They’ve arrived. Be prepared. AI controls the operator as much as the operator controls the AI, but only the user and/or their employer can be liable for damage or injury to others. By Joseph S. Harrington, CPCU Imagine, if you can, an insurance po...
Posted: Jan 22, 2026
20,000 AI Users at Travelers Prep for Innovation 2.0; Claims Call Centers Cut Days...
Posted: Jan 22, 2026
The Kentucky Department of Insurance is reminding insurance agents to be careful when advising clients on securities transactions. State law requires that investment advisors be registered with the state. And when an insurance agent advises a consume...
Posted: Jan 22, 2026
Appeals court holds accounting fraud and misleading statements were part of single scheme, denying company access to additional policy limits. The post
Posted: Jan 22, 2026
Cottingham & Butler Names Hessling President Cottingham & Butler, headquartered in Dubuque, Iowa, named Mike Hessling as president. Hessling joins Cottingham & Butler from Gallagher Bassett, where he served as CEO of North America. As pre...
Posted: Jan 22, 2026
Reimagining Risk in an AI-Driven World AI & Machine Learning
Posted: Jan 22, 2026
The Insurance Managers Association of Cayman (IMAC), the representative body for Cayman’s captive insurance and reinsurance sector, has released an update pointing to continued expansion in the jurisdiction, following the Cayman Islands Monetary A...
Posted: Jan 22, 2026
Posted: Jan 22, 2026
Forecasters: ‘Potentially Catastrophic’ Winter Storm Could Impact Texas to the Carolinas With many Amer...
Posted: Jan 22, 2026
Close to 1M Vehicles Have Open Child Seat Anchor Safety Recalls Nearly a million vehicles currently on...
Posted: Jan 22, 2026
The Pennsylvania Insurance Department (PID) said it saved residents $227.9 million by blocking proposed property/casualty insurance premium increases from taking effect in 2025. Through the rate review process in 2025, PID reported that its review of...
Posted: Jan 22, 2026