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Eliminating state income taxes sounds great to many voters, but Republicans backing the push in multiple states still face questions about whether such big tax cuts can be made without raising other taxes or sharply cutting state funding for educatio...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
A South Carolina medical testing laboratory and its CEO have agreed to repay more than $6 million for allegedly paying kickbacks to doctors in return for boosting lab testing referrals. The settlement resulted from a civil lawsuit brought by a …...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
Artificial Labs, a provider of digital broking and underwriting technology, has announced the appointment of Elizabeth Wooliston as Chief of Markets, effective immediately. Wooliston will leverage her 30-year career in the insurance and reinsuranc...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
Drivers for Lyft and Uber protested self-driving Waymo taxis in San Francisco on Friday, urging state regulators to exercise greater oversight of autonomous vehicles, given recent events in which the cars killed pets and blocked traffic. About two do...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
U.S. pension risk transfer (PRT) activity surged in the fourth quarter of 2025, with global re/insurance broking group Aon estimating total market premiums of $45–$50 billion for the year. According to Aon’s U.S. PRT Annual Report Preview, the fir...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
South Carolina’s measles outbreak exploded into one of the worst in the U.S., with state health officials confirming 99 new cases in three days last week. The outbreak centered in Spartanburg County grew to 310 cases over the holidays, and R...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
Delaware officials announced Sunday that preliminary testing of a commercial broiler flock in Kent County has returned presumptive positive for avian influenza. The Delaware Department of Agriculture said it quarantined the affected premises, and the...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
North Carolina could lose nearly $50 million in federal funding if the state doesn’t revoke commercial driver’s licenses from immigrants who aren’t qualified to hold them after an audit uncovered problems, the U.S. Transportation De...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
Corporate & Specialty insurer HDI Global has expanded its Asia–Pacific footprint with the opening of a representative office in Seoul, Republic of Korea. This new presence in one of Asia’s major insurance markets allows HDI to enhance it...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
Brit Group Holdings Ltd. announced it will begin writing property direct & facultative business in Bermuda through Brit Re. This will see Brit Re write US and Global Property D&F from January, with a focus on US-based complex risks. Core R...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
CyberCube has forecast that 2026 will usher in a phase of AI disillusionment, as boardroom optimism and conference hype collide with the constraints of legacy systems, fragmented data, and regulatory caution, though those that apply AI with discip...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
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Posted: Jan 12, 2026
Goldman Sachs Warns U.S. Grids Face Power Crunch by 2030 Almost all U.S. power grids wi...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the US central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department threatening a criminal indictment, a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on the institution. In...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
Global insurance and reinsurance broker Marsh Asia has appointed Jason Mandera as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Marsh McLennan Indonesia, effective January 1st, 2026. Mandera has served with Marsh for over 16 years, most recently as the Pre...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
Non-life run-off specialists have moved well beyond their traditional role as managers of discontinued books and are now viewed as core strategic capital partners for insurers, according to a new report from the credit rating agency AM Best. The r...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
The U.S. has seized the Olina tanker in the Caribbean, the fifth vessel targeted in recent weeks as Washington steps up efforts to curb Venezuelan oil exports, U.S. officials said on Friday. The Olina, which according to public shipping database R...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions, the reinsurance division of global broker Aon, has promoted Neha Shah to Head of Life and Health (L&H), India. In her new role, Shah will lead the delivery of tailored life and health reinsurance solutions in India...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
Finnish police said on Monday they had lifted the seizure of a ship which had been held on suspicion of sabotaging an undersea telecoms cable running from Helsinki to Estonia across the Gulf of Finland, although the investigation continues. The ̷...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
According to analysts at Jefferies, Bermuda’s newly enacted tax credits regime could materially reduce the corporate tax burden for island-based re/insurers, with potential near-term accounting impacts and longer-term implications for earnings for...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
ICICI Lombard General Insurance Co., a unit of India’s second-largest private lender, said an employee uploaded undisclosed information about third quarter earnings as a personal WhatsApp status, days ahead of the planned release. The worker, w...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
Global reinsurer Hannover Re has announced the appointment of Kun Huang as Chief Executive Officer of its Shanghai Branch. Huang joins Hannover Re from Chaucer, where he spent the past six years, most recently serving as Chief Liaison Officer. Pri...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
One person has died in wildfires in the Australian state of Victoria that have burned out an area slightly larger than Rhode Island. A body was found about 100 meters from a vehicle near the fire-affected town of Gobur, about …
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
Zurich-domiciled global reinsurance company Swiss Re has promoted Christophe Heck to Market Head Life & Health (L&H) for France, BeNeLux and Switzerland. In his new role, Heck will be based in Zurich and will lead Swiss Re’s L&H reinsu...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
Austin, TX – 1/10/2026 – The Risk & Insurance Education Alliance proudly announces its role as the first official sponsor of the InsHER Podcast, a groundbreaking series dedicated to celebrating and elevating women shaping the insurance industry....
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has declared a Significant Event for the severe bushfires impacting Victoria since 7 January 2026, as state fire authorities continue to battle uncontrolled blazes and total structural losses climb past 350...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
Australian insurer Suncorp has disclosed that its total cost of natural hazard events for the first half of 2026 (H1’26) is expected to be AU$1.319 billion, far above the budget of AU$866 million, eroding most of its full-year 2026 (FY’26) allowan...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
Novatae Risk Group, a wholesale insurance brokerage, managing general agency, and program manager, has announced the appointment of Walter Juergens as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). In his new role, Juergens will oversee the entirety of No...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
Allianz SE, a holding company of the Allianz Group, has announced a global partnership with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence (AI) research and development company, to accelerate responsible AI in insurance. The collaboration focuses on three...
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Global reinsurance brokerage Gallagher Re has announced the appointment of Georgina Meyer as Executive Director, UK Property. Meyer joins the firm with over two decades of experience in the reinsurance industry, specialising in catastrophe reinsur...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
The US Supreme Court will consider invalidating the Federal Communications Commission’s system for imposing financial penalties in a clash that could put fresh limits on the power of federal regulators. The justices said Friday they will hear c...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
For American CEOs, reaping the rewards of a Donald Trump presidency is a little more complicated the second time around, in an administration that increasingly pairs conventional conservative deregulation with populist state intervention in big busin...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc. reports it acquired DiMatteo Insurance Brokers effective January 1, 2026, Founded in 2010, DiMatteo Insurance Brokers is an independent insurance agency based in East Hartford, Connecticut. The firm...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
California lawmaker is pushing to require insurers to notify homeowners in advance of taking or using aerial images of their property, and to stop insurers from basing decisions to cancel, non-renew, or reduce coverage based on aerial images older th...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
A California lawmaker is pushing to require insurers to notify homeowners in advance of taking or using aerial images of their property, and to stop insurers from basing decisions to cancel, non-renew, or reduce coverage based on aerial images older...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
Stan Kroenke, the billionaire owner of the National Football League’s Los Angeles Rams, has taken a stand against billboards that he says threaten the prosperity of his $5.5 billion sports and entertainment complex in the nation’s second-...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
Driven by rising insurance penetration and a deepening of underlying risk pools in India, the country’s reinsurance market is “progressing well,” according to Sanjay Radhakrishnan, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of EDME Insurance Brokers Ltd....
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
New York Attorney General Letitia James demanded information from Instacart on Thursday, saying it may have violated the state’s law requiring online retailers to disclose when they use consumers’ information to set prices. The move comes...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is asking for $200 million to restart offering tax rebates for electric vehicles that are purchased in the state, making up for a similar federal program that President Donald Trump ended last year. The proposal would ...
Posted: Jan 12, 2026
10 Highest Class-Action Settlements in 2025 Eclipsed $70B Total: Duane Morris The value of...
Posted: Jan 11, 2026
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York Press Office: (212) 346-5500; [email protected] MALVERN, Pa., Jan. 12, 2026 — Despite recording no U.S. hurricane landfalls for the first time in a decade, the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season generated deadly tropical st...
Posted: Jan 11, 2026
Corgi will use the funding to scale its startup insurance platform after receiving regulatory approval as a licensed carrier.
Posted: Jan 11, 2026