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Red Sea Insurance Premium Spikes as Houthi Risks Return

Insurance Journal

The cost of insuring commercial ships that sail past Yemen’s Houthi militants surged after the rebels sank two ships and killed sailors this week, underscoring how the attacks have revived risk in the crucial waterway. Shipowners now have to pa...

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

Hail responsible for 55% of solar PV weather claims in North America: AXIS Capital

Reinsurance News

A new report from AXIS Capital Holdings Limited reveals that hail accounts for 55% of the total gross claims related to natural catastrophes and extreme weather for solar photovoltaics (PV) in the US and Canada. AXIS’s Global Energy team has...

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

Flood Re strengthens senior executive team with three appointments

Reinsurance News

The Board of the UK flood reinsurance scheme, Flood Re, has appointed Latinka Pilipovic as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Board member, effective August 1st, 2025, subject to regulatory approval. Simultaneously, Dan Byrne, the Chief Risk Office...

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

European Commission to Propose Floating Russian Oil Price Cap

Insurance Journal

The European Commission is expected to propose a floating Russian oil price cap this week as part of a new draft sanctions package in an attempt to overcome opposition from some member states, four EU diplomats said. The Commission proposed …

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

Reinsurance pricing remains near historic highs as 2025 market holds firm: AM Best

Reinsurance News

In a recent briefing hosted by AM Best, titled “Reinsurance: What Lies Ahead?”, industry leaders gathered to examine the state of the reinsurance market at mid-year 2025 and offer insights into how the rest of the year might unfold. The panel incl...

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

WTW grows Bermuda team with Thibault addition as Director, ICT

Reinsurance News

WTW, a global advisory, broking and solutions company, is expanding its Bermuda office with the appointment of Cédric Thibault as Director to its Insurance Consulting and Technology (ICT) business. Thibault joins WTW with two decades of experience...

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

Shaw named CCO for Everest International Insurance Operation

Reinsurance News

Global insurer and reinsurer, Everest has announced the appointment of Mark Shaw as Chief Commercial Officer for its International Insurance Operation. Shaw will report to Adam Clifford and Jason Keen, Co-Leads of Everest Insurance International®,...

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

Faerestrand to spearhead LSM’s launch into UK HNW market

Reinsurance News

Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has launched its High Net Worth (HNW) offering in the UK with the appointment of Benjamin Faerestrand as Household Underwriter. Based in London, Faerestrand will be reporting...

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

US Faces More Extreme Weather Events, but Is Society Doing Enough?

Insurance Journal

After deadly flooding in central Texas in 1987, some thought they’d proven they could handle Mother Nature’s best punch. Then came this month’s horrific flash floods, when unfathomable amounts of rain fell in only hours and more tha...

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

CSU Hurricane Season Forecast Adjusted to ‘Slightly’ Above Normal

Insurance Journal

The team of hurricane researchers at Colorado State University shaved off a storm from its original Atlantic hurricane season forecast, and now sees a “slightly” above normal season. High levels of observed Caribbean wind shear, which bre...

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

Extreme Heat Is Killing European Workers Despite Government Efforts

Insurance Journal

Montse Aguilar was a healthy 51-year-old woman when she started her shift cleaning streets in Barcelona at around 2:30 p.m. on June 28. The Spanish city was under alert for high temperatures amid a brutal heat wave that brought record …

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

People Moves: Arch Insurance NA Promotes 5 to Division Presidents

Insurance Journal

Arch Insurance North America said five of its executives were named to the newly-created roles of division presidents, effective Aug. 1. Linda Fallon has been named Division President, Consumer Business, which includes the Travel, Accident & Heal...

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

Allianz appoints new leaders to drive growth in UK commercial insurance

Reinsurance News

Allianz Commercial, an insurance and financial services provider, has announced two permanent leadership appointments within its UK commercial division. These changes, effective immediately, strengthen the company’s focus on delivering high-qualit...

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

Pennsylvania Digital Forgery Law Targets AI Scams and Financial Exploitation

Insurance Journal

A new Pennsylvania law intended to crack down on AI-powered fraud and financial crimes makes it a felony to use artificial intelligence to produce non-consensual “forged digital likenesses” like deepfakes or voice clones to injure, financ...

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

Andreessen Horowitz Leaves Delaware for Nevada, Tells Startups to Follow

Insurance Journal

The Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is reincorporating its business from Delaware to Nevada and calling for its portfolio companies to do the same — citing concerns over bias in the state “against founders and their boar...

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

Delaware Top Court Sides With Zantac Makers in Cancer Claims

Insurance Journal

The Delaware Supreme Court rejected the legitimacy of expert testimony linking the heartburn drug Zantac to cancer, in a major win for makers of the product. In a unanimous ruling Thursday, the state’s highest court agreed with the argument of...

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

Dechert Law Firm: Claims It Used Hired Hackers Resolved With No Liability Admission

Insurance Journal

Philadelphia-based law firm Dechert said on Thursday that a pair of U.S. lawsuits accusing it of using hired hackers to win in court have been resolved without any admission of liability. Dechert and others, including U.S. public relations operatives...

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

UK Arrests Four Linked to M&S, Harrods Cyberattacks

Insurance Journal

The UK’s National Crime Agency has arrested four people over a series of disruptive cyberattacks that targeted leading British retailers earlier this year. The authorities detained three teenage males and one 20-year-old female in the West Midl...

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

Dechert Law Firm Settles Claims It Used Hired Hackers With No Admission of Liability

Insurance Journal

Philadelphia-based law firm Dechert said on Thursday that a pair of U.S. lawsuits accusing it of using hired hackers to win in court have been resolved without any admission of liability. Dechert and others, including U.S. public relations operatives...

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

New Mexico Village Rebuilds All Over Again After Record-Breaking Flash

Insurance Journal

The mountain village of Ruidoso returned to the grim rituals of rebuilding after flash flooding and a deadly natural disaster, just one year after wildfire and intense flooding reshaped the popular vacation getaway and its surroundings. Broken tree l...

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

People Moves: Rosenberg & Parker Name Three New Partners

Insurance Journal

Rosenberg & Parker (R&P), headquartered in Wayne, Pennsylvania, named three new partners who join CEO Matt Rosenberg and Sr. Partner Chad Rosenberg as owners. New partner President Jack Rosenberg joined R&P as a producer in 2018 after beg...

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

People Moves: Gaines Named Acting Commissioner at Nevada Division of Insurance

Insurance Journal

The Nevada Department of Business named Ned Gaines acting commissioner at the Nevada Division of Insurance. The appointment follows the departure of Scott Kipper, who had served as commissioner since 2023. Recruitment to fill the position on a perman...

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

People Moves: Rosenberg & Parker Names Three New Partners

Insurance Journal

Rosenberg & Parker (R&P), headquartered in Wayne, Pennsylvania, named three new partners who join CEO Matt Rosenberg and Sr. Partner Chad Rosenberg as owners. New partner President Jack Rosenberg joined R&P as a producer in 2018 after beg...

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

New Mexico Village Rebuilds All Over Again After Record-Breaking Flash Flood

Insurance Journal

The mountain village of Ruidoso returned to the grim rituals of rebuilding after flash flooding and a deadly natural disaster, just one year after wildfire and intense flooding reshaped the popular vacation getaway and its surroundings. Broken tree l...

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

Smith Brothers Has Acquired Charter Oak Agency in Connecticut

Insurance Journal

Glastonbury, Connecticut-based Smith Brothers Insurance LLC announced that it acquired Charter Oak Agency effective July 1, 2025. Charter Oak Agency, an independent insurance agency with offices in Westport and Derby, Connecticut, will retain these l...

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

EPA Orders Cleanup Following Battery Fire at California Energy Storage Facility

Insurance Journal

A company has entered into a settlement agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a cleanup in the wake of a lithium-ion battery fire that occurred at the company’s energy storage facility in San Diego, California. A fi...

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

Politics Surrounding Texas Flooding Underscore Challenges in Replacing FEMA

Carrier Management

Politics Surrounding Texas Flooding Underscore Challenges in Replacing FEMA Just weeks ago, President D...

Posted: Jul 10, 2025

CSU Issues Slight Downgrade in Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast

Carrier Management

CSU Issues Slight Downgrade in Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast Weather resear...

Posted: Jul 10, 2025

Tesla to Expand Robotaxis to San Francisco Within Two Months

Carrier Management

Tesla to Expand Robotaxis to San Francisco Within Two Months Tesla w...

Posted: Jul 10, 2025

AI-Driven MGA ‘Augmented UW’ Launches to Serve Smart-Follow Insurance Market

Carrier Management

AI-Driven MGA ‘Augmented UW’ Launches to Serve Smart-Follow Insurance Market Augmented UW Ltd., the AI-drive...

Posted: Jul 10, 2025

Arizona Approves ZestyAI Storm Models for Property-Level Risk Insights

IIR

The state becomes the 19th to authorize the AI platform’s severe convective storm suite designed to help insurers improve underwriting and pricing accuracy.

Posted: Jul 10, 2025

AI Advances Help Address D&O Coverage Gaps

IIR

Jason Bishara of NSI Insurance Group says insurers and distributors face new opportunities as technology enables tailored Directors and Officers coverage for small businesses historically underinsured due to complexity and cost.

Posted: Jul 10, 2025

Can Technology Prevent Disasters Like the Texas Floods?

IIR

Previsico’s Jonathan Jackson discusses how precision flood forecasting offers insurers new tools for risk mitigation, claims reduction, and customer protection.

Posted: Jul 10, 2025

AI Advances Help to Address D&O Coverage Gaps

IIR

Jason Bishara of NSI Insurance Group says insurers and distributors face new opportunities as technology enables tailored Directors and Officers coverage for small businesses historically underinsured due to complexity and cost.

Posted: Jul 10, 2025

Protected: Wide-Ranging Risks

Risk & Insurance

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Protected: Wide-Ranging Risks appeared first on Risk & Insuranc...

Posted: Jul 10, 2025

Deadly History of Flooding in ‘Flash Flood Alley’ Along Guadalupe River

Insurance Journal

Cindy Manley was a summer camp counselor in 1987 when a different devastating flood scarred the Texas Hill Country. The Heart O’ the Hills camp is on the Guadalupe River, where a massive search continues for more than 160 people …

Posted: Jul 10, 2025

Nebraska Sues GM Over Alleged Unauthorized Collection of Driving Data

Insurance Journal

Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers filed a lawsuit this week alleging General Motors and its telematics service provider OnStar collected driving data without consumers’ knowledge or consent to create driving scores that were later sold to...

Posted: Jul 10, 2025

Michigan Nursing Homes to Pay $4.5M Settlement Over Substandard Care Allegations

Insurance Journal

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced a $4.5 million settlement with six Detroit-area nursing homes and their ownership companies, Villa Financial Services LLC and Villa Olympia Investment LLC, over allegations that they accepted taxpayer f...

Posted: Jul 10, 2025

Bermuda/US re/insurers maintain underwriting profitability amid high cat losses: Fitch

Reinsurance News

Fitch has released its Peer Credit Analysis for Bermuda/US re/insurers, revealing that all companies maintained underwriting profitability in 2024, despite increases in combined ratios due to higher catastrophe losses. The peer group includes Arch...

Posted: Jul 10, 2025

People Moves: McLarens Appoints Miller as Chief Global Strategy Officer

Insurance Journal

Global claims services provider McLarens has appointed Danny Miller as Chief Global Strategy Officer (CGSO), a newly created role within the firm’s Global Management Team (GMT). This strategic addition to the leadership team reflects McLarens&#...

Posted: Jul 10, 2025

Insurance Fraud Reaches Billions as Traditional Detection Methods Miss Majority of Clues

Risk & Insurance

Carpe Data analysis shows continuous monitoring uncovers fraudulent activity in 8% of injury claims that internal systems failed to flag. The post

Posted: Jul 10, 2025

Arch Insurance North America promotes five senior leaders as Division Presidents

Reinsurance News

Arch Insurance North America has appointed five of its well-established executives to the newly created roles of Division Presidents, effective August 1st, 2025. Linda Fallon has been named Division President of Consumer Business, which includes t...

Posted: Jul 10, 2025