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Protective promotes Wells and Harrison

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Paul Wells to serve as President & CFO, and Wade Harrison to become Vice Chairman & COO.

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

Manulife expands Vitality program with new partners and more ways to earn points

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Vitality Plus members will gain access to new health and wellness partners.

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

Silent Cyber Threats: How ‘Shadow AI’ Could Undermine Digital Health Defenses

Insurance Journal

Across Canada, doctors and nurses are quietly using public artificial-intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and Gemini to write clinical notes, translate discharge summaries or summarize patient data. But even though these services of...

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

Gallagher Re appoints Parrus Kunvarji as Executive Director, Customised Solutions, APAC

Reinsurance News

Global reinsurance brokerage Gallagher Re has announced the appointment of Parrus Kunvarji as Executive Director, Customised Solutions – APAC. In his new role, Kunvarji will be responsible for Gallagher Re’s customised portfolio in APAC, focusing...

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

Diot-Siaci completes new ownership structure

Reinsurance News

The Diot-Siaci Group, an independent insurance and reinsurance consulting and brokerage group, has finalised its new ownership structure following the signing of the agreement on 6 August 2025. As a result, the Burrus Group, a long-standing shareh...

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

Lockton promotes Harsh Chhajer to Power & Energy Growth Leader, Asia

Reinsurance News

Lockton, a global independent insurance brokerage, has announced the promotion of Harsh Chhajer to Power & Energy Growth Leader, Asia. In his new role, Chhajer will drive the production strategy within the newly established Regional Power &#38...

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

Ex-Lloyd’s CEO Lost $17 Million AIG Job After Office Romance

Insurance Journal

American International Group Inc.’s announcement last week that it was parting ways with incoming President John Neal stunned insurance industry observers and raised questions about what caused the veteran executive to lose a $17 million job be...

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

Fitch upgrades Fortitude Re’s ratings on improved company profile

Reinsurance News

Fitch Ratings has upgraded Fortitude Re’s ratings, citing an improved company profile that has strengthened in recent years through a series of strategic transactions, including reinsurance deals that have expanded the company’s scale and diversif...

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

Arch Insurance appoints Sean Brady as SVP Program Management, Consumer Division

Reinsurance News

Arch Insurance, a division of Bermuda-based re/insurer Arch Capital Group, has announced the appointment of Sean Brady as Senior Vice President (SVP), Program Management for the Consumer Division. Arch’s Consumer Division includes the Travel, Acci...

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

Elias Habayeb to succeed Mark Kociancic as Everest Group CFO

Reinsurance News

Bermuda-based insurer and reinsurer, Everest Group, has appointed Elias Habayeb as Executive Vice President (EVP) and Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective on or around May 1st, 2026. He succeeds Mark Kociancic, who has decided to retire...

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

Shory Group receives approval to operate in Saudi Arabia

Reinsurance News

Shory Group, a First.tech company and a fast-growing InsurTech firm in the region, has secured regulatory approval from the Saudi Insurance Authority (IA) to commence operations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This marks a notable step in Shory’s...

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

Viewpoint: Sins of Policy Interpretation. A Call to Repentance

Insurance Journal

Written words have an intended meaning. Fair-minded readers try to grasp that meaning. But other readers impute motives to the writer either to serve their own ends or to protect the writer from unforeseen consequences. Once, early in my career, &#82...

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

Ohio’s FirstEnergy Ordered to Pay More Than $250M for Bribery Scheme

Insurance Journal

Ohio utility regulators ordered Akron-based FirstEnergy on Wednesday to pay more than $250 million in fines and refunds as a result of its misconduct in a sweeping Statehouse bribery scandal whose fallout continues five years on. The punishment meted...

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

AXA XL adds Hayes and Otto as Client Relationship Leaders

Reinsurance News

AXA XL, the property and casualty division of AXA Group, has appointed Jessemine Hayes and Brian Otto as Client Relationship Leaders, based in Dallas and Kansas City, respectively. In their new roles, the pair will lead client engagement efforts,...

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

P/C Insurer Rankings Down Overall on Higher Costs, Changing Customer Expectations

Insurance Journal

Rising costs and changing customer expectations are driving satisfaction in the insurance and mortgage industry, according to an American Customer Satisfaction Index study. Among the four industries studied — health insurance, life insurance, propert...

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

Markel collaborates with Greenhouse Specialty to deliver environmental solutions

Reinsurance News

Markel Insurance, the insurance operations within Markel Group Inc., has entered a strategic collaboration with Greenhouse Specialty Insurance Services, LLC, a program administrator specialising in environmental casualty insurance products. Founde...

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

Federal Judge Denies TRO to Marsh in Case Against Former Employees

Insurance Journal

A federal judge has denied a temporary restraining order against seven former employees of Marsh sued in one of several lawsuits against defectors to join Howden US. Marsh USA early this month filed a lawsuit against the group of former …

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

Europe to Launch Service to Measure Role of Climate Change in Extreme Weather

Insurance Journal

The EU is launching a service to measure the role climate change is playing in extreme weather events like heatwaves and extreme rain, and experts say this could help governments set climate policy, improve financial risk assessments and provide evid...

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

SEC’s Epic Post-Shutdown Filing Backlog Risks Stalling US IPOs

Insurance Journal

Rank-and-file US Securities and Exchange Commission workers have returned to face the paperwork that piled up during the longest government shutdown in US history, and supervisors say the order of the day is “triage.” Deal first with the...

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

Florida Reforms Are Paying Off for Drivers. Don’t Mess it up With Repeal of PIP

Insurance Journal

For years, I’ve warned that Florida’s legal climate was out of control — driven not by consumers or local businesses, but by a handful of billboard trial lawyers who made fortunes exploiting loopholes in our laws. Their tactics fueled one...

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

California Refinery Closures Spark Pipeline Race to West Coast

Insurance Journal

A race is on among energy companies to build a major fuel pipeline to the U.S. West Coast, a potentially lucrative prize as the planned closure of two California refineries threatens to send gasoline prices in the isolated market soaring. …

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

Jury Orders Massachusetts State Police to Pay $6.8M Over Discrimination Claims

Insurance Journal

A jury has ordered the Massachusetts State Police to pay $6.8 million after a finding that it discriminated against female and minority troopers. The verdict confirmed Tuesday by a Suffolk Superior Court clerk came in a lawsuit accusing the agency&#8...

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

People Moves: XPT Specialty Adds Ornce to Workers’ Comp Division

Insurance Journal

XPT Specialty, headquartered in New Haven, Connecticut, appointed Chris Ornce as a senior vice president in its workers’ compensation division. With over 15 years in the industry, Ornce has a reputation for building and growing agency distribut...

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

The Hartford CEO Takes Lead in Shaping the City of Hartford’s Future

Insurance Journal

The Hartford Chairman and CEO Christopher Swift has convened a group of corporate and community leaders in greater Hartford to develop a unifying vision for the city. According to the announcement from the namesake insurer based in the city, the &#82...

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

World Insurance Acquires Van Syckel Insurance of New Jersey

Insurance Journal

World Insurance Associates announced that it acquired the business of Van Syckel Insurance of Bound Brook, New Jersey on August 1, 2025. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Van Syckel Insurance, which was started in 1865, is managed by &#823...

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

Guy Bessis named Chairman of Energy & Power for Marsh India, Middle East & Africa

Reinsurance News

Marsh, an insurance broker, risk advisor, and business of Marsh McLennan, has announced the appointment of Guy Bessis as Chairman of Energy & Power for Marsh India, Middle East, and Africa. Bessis began his insurance career as an underwriter w...

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

People Moves: Skyward Specialty Promotes Burkhart to President, U.S. Property & Casualty

Insurance Journal

Skyward Specialty Insurance Group Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas, promoted John Burkhart to president, U.S. property & casualty, Skyward Specialty Insurance. In this expanded role, Burkhart will assume oversight of the Company’s capt...

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

People Moves: Encova Insurance Adds Palumbo to Board of Directors

Insurance Journal

Encova Insurance, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, named Corey Palumbo to their board of directors. Palumbo is an attorney with Bowles Rice in Charleston, West Virginia, where his primary practice areas include energy litigation, deliberate intent an...

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

Great American Environmental launches GLIDER, a combined GL and pollution policy

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GLIDER is designed to give insureds one coordinated structure instead of pieced together coverage

Posted: Nov 21, 2025

Insurity Andromeda Release Follows $50M Investment in AI Capabilities

IIR

The Hartford-based provider is investing $50 million in R&D to enhance transparency, risk intelligence, and automation for insurers and brokers.

Posted: Nov 20, 2025

Mutakamela Insurance Selects Neutrinos to Modernize SME Offerings

IIR

The Riyadh-based carrier has chosen the New York firm’s platform to automate health and motor insurance journeys for small and mid-sized businesses.

Posted: Nov 20, 2025

Majesco to Acquire Vitech, Expanding Reach in L&AH and Retirement

IIR

The combination will add pension and benefits capabilities to Majesco’s platform and bring in more than 100 life and health customers.

Posted: Nov 20, 2025

Federato’s $100M Signal: From Underwriting Intelligence to Platform Ambition

IIR

The Goldman Sachs Alternatives-led Series D marks a turning point as Federato seeks to redefine how core insurance work gets done, beginning with underwriting and extending across the policy lifecycle.

Posted: Nov 20, 2025

Efficiency vs. Effectiveness: How AI Is Reshaping Standard and Specialty Insurance

Insurance Thought Leadership

Efficiency vs. Effectiveness: How AI Is Reshaping Standard and Specialty Insurance AI & Machine Learning

Posted: Nov 20, 2025

State Farm Files for 6.2% Auto Rate Reduction in California

Insurance Journal

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. submitted a rate filing to reduce personal auto insurance rates by 6.2%. The filing has a targeted effective date of Feb. 23, 2026, and is pending approval from the California Department of Insurance. State...

Posted: Nov 20, 2025

Moved buys Paylode

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Moved is a platform that automates move-in and move-out for apartment buildings while generating ancillary revenue for property managers.

Posted: Nov 20, 2025

CUBE acquires Kodex AI

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Kodex AI develops agentic AI tools for compliance and risk management.

Posted: Nov 20, 2025