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Poll: Pacific Northwest People Are Seeing An Increase in Roadway Rudeness

Insurance Journal

If you’ve felt a shift in driver behavior on Pacific Northwest roads, a recent poll suggests you’re not alone. A survey of Washington and Oregon residents by PEMCO Mutual Insurance found that many motorists are seeing increases in rudenes...

Posted: Jul 25, 2025

FEMA Denies Maryland Disaster Aid Request for Western Counties Hit by May Floods

Insurance Journal

The Trump Administration has denied Maryland’s request for federal disaster aid for damage caused by severe storms and flooding on May 13 and 14 in Allegany and Garrett Counties in the western part of the state. Gov. Wes Moore said …

Posted: Jul 25, 2025

Donegal reports $16.9m Q2’25 net income with slight net premium decrease

Reinsurance News

Donegal Group Inc., the US insurance company, has announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2025, reporting a rise in net income to $16.9 million and an improved combined ratio of 97.7%, while net premiums saw a slight decrease of...

Posted: Jul 25, 2025

Chubb Q2 Net Income Jumps 33% on Premium Growth, Underwriting

Carrier Management

Chubb Q2 Net Income Jumps 33% on Premium Growth,...

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

As Oregon Wildfire Approaches 100,000-Acre Mark, a Look at Other Megafires

Carrier Management

As Oregon Wildfire Approaches 100,000-Acre Mark, a Look at Other Megafires A wildfire burning in a spar...

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Labor Department Proposes Over 60 Rule Changes in Push to Deregulate Workplaces

Carrier Management

Labor Department Proposes Over 60 Rule Changes in Push to Deregulate Workplaces Th...

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Ransomware Now Being Used by Some Microsoft SharePoint Server Hackers

Carrier Management

Ransomware Now Being Used by Some Microsoft SharePoint Server Hackers A...

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Despite Often Being Banned, Workplace Romances Continue

Carrier Management

Despite Often Being Banned, Workplace Romances Continue The media attention and fallout surrounding two h...

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

CLARA Analytics Turns AI Toward Subrogation, Targeting Missed Opportunities

IIR

CLARA Analytics expands its AI platform to subrogation, aiming to reduce leakage and help insurers identify overlooked recovery opportunities.

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Engineering Change at TruStage: CIO Pat Lawicki

IIR

Drawing on her automation and transformation background, Lawicki is leading an enterprise-wide modernization effort grounded in customer needs, operational scale, and applied innovation.

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

AXA Selects SimCorp to Enhance Risk and Portfolio Oversight

IIR

AXA will implement SimCorp One and managed services to unify investment operations and strengthen financial risk management across global entities.

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Brilliance in Focus: Fine Arts Power Broker Mary Pontillo

Risk & Insurance

From an art teacher to a fine arts broker, snippets of the career journey of Mary Pontillo. The post Brilliance in Focus: Fine Arts Power Broke...

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Berkley One Classics updates collector car coverage in Georgia

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The updates mark Berkley One Classics’ 51st year in the market and reflect its continued investment in flexible, collector-focused coverage.

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Enstar goes private in $5.1 billion deal

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Backed by Sixth Street.

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Hagerty announces new fronting arrangement with Markel

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Hagerty has increased risk sharing from 0% in 2016 to 80% of the underwriting economics today.

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Eagleview rebrands

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EagleView is a U.S.-based provider of ultra‑high-resolution aerial imagery, property analytics, and precision 3D measurement solutions.

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Investment Planning Counsel to acquire De Thomas Wealth Management

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IPC is an integrated wealth management company founded in 1996.

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Christiern Dart appointed as CEO of MS Amlin

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Dart succeeds Andrew Carrier who after three years as CEO.

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Accelerant raises $724 million in upsized IPO

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The company announced the pricing of its upsized initial public offering.

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Goosehead Insurance partners with Baird & Warner

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Baird & Warner is a real estate brokerage.

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Westwood Insurance Agency partners with Legend Homes

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Legend Homes is a Texas-based builder ranked as a top 40 home builder in the country.

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Chubb posts Q2 results

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Honda Insurance Solutions is available in all fifty states.

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

California Department of Insurance Completes Final Review of Wildfire Model

Insurance Journal

The California Department of Insurance completed a review of the state’s first wildfire catastrophe model, marking a dramatic change in the state’s property/casualty insurance ratemaking process. The new model for use by insurers in asses...

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Kentucky DOI Posts Rules on Wind-Mitigation Grant Program

Insurance Journal

The Kentucky Department of Insurance has posted new rules on the Strengthen Kentucky Homes wind-mitigation grant program, in keeping with statutes approved in 2024. The regulations spell out eligibility requirements for homeowners, grant procedures,...

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

People Moves: Pharmacists Mutual Appoints Mosher to Board of Directors

Insurance Journal

Pharmacists Mutual Insurance Company announced the appointment of Matthew Mosher, former President and CEO of AM Best Rating Services, Inc., to its Board of Directors. Mosher brings decades of leadership experience and industry understanding that wil...

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

RenRe built one of its largest & most profitable property cat portfolios at mid-year renewal: CEO O’...

Reinsurance News

Bermuda-based reinsurer RenaissanceRe (RenRe) had a strong mid-year renewal and constructed one of its largest and most profitable net retained property catastrophe portfolios, with the firm’s President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Kev...

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Tokio Marine Kiln appoints Lucy Fraser as Cyber Risk Analyst

Reinsurance News

Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK), a global specialty insurer, has announced the appointment of Lucy Fraser as Cyber Risk Analyst. The appointment supports TMK’s continued expansion of its cyber risk offerings at a critical time, following a series of high-...

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

People Moves: Alliant Names Beach as SVP Within Employee Benefits Team

Insurance Journal

Alliant Insurance Services named Stephanie Beach, ASA, MAAA, as Senior Vice President within its employee benefits group, based in Austin, Texas. With more than 25 years of experience advising mid- to large-sized employers, Beach brings extensive exp...

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Wildfires in Mediterranean Leave a Dozen Dead as Heat Soars

Insurance Journal

Wildfires fueled by soaring temperatures and strong winds across the eastern Mediterranean left a dozen people dead in Turkey and Cyprus. Ten forest workers and search and rescue volunteers were killed in Turkey’s Eskisehir province and 14 othe...

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Goosehead posts 20% revenue growth, $1.2bn in total written premiums in Q2’25

Reinsurance News

Goosehead Insurance, an independent personal lines insurance agency, reported total revenue of $94 million for the second quarter of 2025, up 20% compared to the same period a year prior, alongside an 18% increase in total written premiums to $1.2...

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Brown & Brown (Europe) Agrees to Acquire UK-Based Bloodstock Broker

Insurance Journal

Brown & Brown (Europe) Ltd., part of Brown & Brown, Inc., has agreed to acquire Weatherbys Hamilton LLP, a leading UK-based insurance broker specializing in private client, bloodstock, and farm & estate insurance. Financial details of the...

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Construction Market Faces Widening Gap Between Primary and Excess Casualty Pricing

Risk & Insurance

Excess underwriters demand double-digit rate hikes for construction casualty while primary coverage remains stable, according to Amwins. The post

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

People Moves: Everest Promotes Beggs as EVP and Reinsurance CEO; Allianz Commercial Appoints Key Glo...

Insurance Journal

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Everest Group and Allianz Commercial. A summary of these new hire follows here. Everest Promotes Beggs as EVP and CEO of Reinsurance Everest Group Ltd., the Bermuda-based property, ca...

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Microsoft Says Some SharePoint Server Hackers Now Using Ransomware

Insurance Journal

A cyber-espionage campaign centered on vulnerable versions of Microsoft’s server software now involves the deployment of ransomware, Microsoft said in a late Wednesday blog post. In the post, citing “expanded analysis and threat intellige...

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

MAPFRE RE reports strong H1’25 CoR and 1.3% premium growth

Reinsurance News

MAPFRE RE, the reinsurance and global risk arm of Madrid-based insurer MAPFRE, has announced its H1 2025 financial results, reporting an increase in its combined ratio of 0.7 percentage points to 95.9% amid the costly California wildfires. The ini...

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Video Shows Florida Deputies Punching Man. Was He Reaching for Knife?

Insurance Journal

A video showing Florida deputies punching and dragging a Black man from his car during a traffic stop has sparked nationwide outrage, with civil rights lawyers accusing authorities of fabricating their arrest report. The footage shows that William Mc...

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Hagerty announces new fronting arrangement with Markel

Reinsurance News

Hagerty, a specialty automotive insurer, has entered into a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) for a new fronting arrangement with Markel, marking a significant evolution in its successful partnership. Hagerty provides specialty vehicle insurance,...

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

MS Amlin Names Former Brit CUO Dart as CEO, Succeeding Carrier

Insurance Journal

MS Amlin, the Lloyd’s global re/insurer, announced the appointment of Christiern Dart as chief executive officer (CEO). Dart, previously group chief underwriting officer (CUO) at Brit, will take up the role in January 2026, subject to regulator...

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Smoking or Oxygen Machine Eyed as Possible Causes of Assisted Living Home Fire

Insurance Journal

A fire that killed 10 people at a Massachusetts assisted-living facility was unintentionally caused by either someone smoking or an electrical issue with an oxygen machine, investigators said Tuesday. The state’s deadliest blaze in more than fo...

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Everest promotes Jill Beggs to CEO of Reinsurance

Reinsurance News

Bermuda-based insurer and reinsurer Everest Group has promoted Jill Beggs to Executive Vice President (EVP) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Reinsurance, following her appointment as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the reinsurance arm early l...

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Selective reports Q2’25 net income growth and improved CoR amid market headwinds

Reinsurance News

Selective Insurance Group has announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2025, reporting net income growth to $83.6 million from $65.6 million in the same period last year, 12% increase in net premiums written (NPW) and an improved...

Posted: Jul 24, 2025

Accelerant’s upsized IPO to raise firm $426m

Reinsurance News

Accelerant Holdings, a technology-driven insurance platform that partners with underwriters and MGAs across the globe, has announced the pricing of its upsized initial public offering (IPO). The company is now offering a total of 34,461,152 Class...

Posted: Jul 24, 2025