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Allianz Trade CEO Highlights AI-Driven Growth in Credit Insurance

IIR

Sarah Murrow says Allianz Trade is strengthening its leadership by combining data-driven innovation with its longstanding role in supporting business liquidity and trade confidence.

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

Terra, Gradient AI Partner on Workers’ Comp Claims Intelligence

IIR

The integration aims to deliver earlier risk insights to improve claims outcomes.

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

Applied Home National Underwriters Adopts ZestyAI Risk Models

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The insurer will use ZestyAI’s AI-driven analytics to improve underwriting, pricing, and portfolio management across U.S. property operations.

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

Upstage raises $45 million

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Upstage's main offering is a document intelligence suite.

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

The Standard partners with PetPartners

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OnePack is a flexible group insurance product where the employer is the master policyholder.

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

Overhaul raises $105 million

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Overhaul is a supply chain integrity solutions company.

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

Intact Insurance Specialty Solutions appoints chief distribution officer

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Tony Beal was appointed to chief distribution officer.

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

Honeycomb Insurance Launches in Minnesota, the First of Five New States Slated for Expansion by Earl...

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Honeycomb has officially landed in Minnesota! We’re bringing lightning-fast quotes, competitive rates, and flexible coverage to one of the most underserved property insurance markets in the country. Minnesota has weathered...

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

Volvo launches insurance agency

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Kuvare accelerates its progress toward a unified, modern digital experience across its life insurance and annuity brands.

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

Gunmaker’s Instagram Posts Don’t Create Uvalde Shooting Liability: Meta Lawyers

Carrier Management

Gunmaker’s Instagram Posts Don’t Create Uvalde Shooting Liability: Meta Lawyers A lawsuit filed by fami...

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

Lawyer Argues Meta Can’t Be Held Liable for Gunmaker’s IG Posts in Uvalde Suit

Carrier Management

Lawyer Argues Meta Can’t Be Held Liable for Gunmaker’s IG Posts in Uvalde Suit A lawsuit filed by famil...

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

National Drive Sober Campaign Continues Through Labor Day

Carrier Management

National Drive Sober Campaign Continues Through Labor Day Between August 15 and September 1, the U.S. Dep...

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

Honeycomb Launches in Minnesota

Insurance Journal

Honeycomb Insurance, a digital MGA specializing in property and casualty coverage for landlords and condominium associations, announced that it has begun writing policies in Minnesota, with plans to expand into four additional states over the upcomin...

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

Entergy to Build Three Gas Plants for Meta’s Biggest Data Center

Insurance Journal

Louisiana regulators approved Entergy Corp.’s plan to build three natural gas plants to power Meta Platform Inc.’s biggest data center. Meta’s latest and largest data center is a 4 million–square–foot complex in rural Louisiana inte...

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

Texas Is Warning Health Providers to Stop Mailing Abortion Pills to State

Insurance Journal

Texas officials are warning health care providers to stop sending abortion pills into the state or risk fines and prosecution, as Attorney General Ken Paxton seeks to halt the flow of medicine that’s circumventing local restrictions. Prosecutor...

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

Insurance Industry Shows Hiring Optimism Despite Persistent Talent Challenges

Risk & Insurance

More than half of carriers plan staff increases over next 12 months as revenue growth expectations reach highest levels in recent surveys: The Jacobson Group and Aon. The post

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

Extreme heat is a risk multiplier, says Swiss Re’s Adrian Hall

Reinsurance News

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions’ US Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Adrian Hall, has highlighted the increasing threats posed by extreme heat, noting that the risk is now a direct threat to physical assets as he calls for the risk to be at the c...

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

More Than 2.6M Homes Face Moderate to Greater Risk of Wildfires: Cotality

Carrier Management

More Than 2.6M Homes Face Moderate to Greater Risk of Wildfires: Cotality The once so-called "wi...

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

US Probes Tesla Crash Report Delays

Carrier Management

US Probes Tesla Crash Report Delays The U.S. auto safety agency sa...

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

Trump $464 Million NY Civil Fraud Penalty Vacated on Appeal

Insurance Journal

A New York appeals court struck down a $464 million fraud fine against President Donald Trump and his company, handing him a victory over the state’s attorney general. In a decision issued Thursday, the Manhattan appellate court still found tha...

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

Green Shield Risk Solutions Launches Guardian Elite Home in California, Colorado

Insurance Journal

Green Shield Risk Solutions, a managing general agent, has announced the launch of its flagship homeowners program, Guardian Elite Home. The program was created exclusively for wildfire-prone regions of Colorado and California. Designed for affluent...

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

Minnesota Sues TikTok Over Addictive Algorithms

Insurance Journal

Minnesota on Tuesday joined a wave of states suing TikTok, alleging the social media giant preys on young people with addictive algorithms that trap them into becoming compulsive consumers of its short videos. “This isn’t about free speec...

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

Hadron completes acquisition of GCNA from IFC subsidiary

Reinsurance News

Hadron, an insurance carrier focused on innovation in the delegated authority space, today announced the successful completion of its acquisition of The Guarantee Company of North America USA (GCNA) from Atlantic Specialty Insurance Company, a sub...

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

Pen Underwriting partners with Bridgehaven to support UK solicitors’ PI market

Reinsurance News

Pen Underwriting, the multi-class multi-territory managing general agent, has struck a strategic partnership with hybrid insurer Bridgehaven Specialty UK Limited, in support of the UK solicitors’ professional indemnity (PI) market. According to Pe...

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

Allstate estimates $184m in catastrophe losses for July

Reinsurance News

The Allstate Corporation, a provider of personal property and casualty insurance in the US, has estimated catastrophe losses of $184 million or $145 million, after-tax for July. The company reported that the cat losses stemmed from 19 wind and hai...

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

Erin’s Massive Waves Threaten to Isolate North Carolina’s Outer Banks

Insurance Journal

There’s a popular T-shirt on Hatteras Island along the North Carolina Outer Banks that says: “One road on. One road off (sometimes)” — poking fun at the constant battle between Mother Nature and a thin ribbon of pavement connecting...

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

North Carolina Veterinary Hospital Explodes After Car Hits Gas Line, Police Say

Insurance Journal

A brand new veterinary hospital exploded Tuesday morning in North Carolina after a car crashed into a nearby gas meter, authorities said. About 20 minutes before the explosion in Wilmington, a car had run off the road and hit the …

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

AM Best data highlights strong life reinsurer performance in 2024

Reinsurance News

Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) is the world’s largest reinsurer focused solely on life reinsurance and ranks third overall among companies that also write non-life reinsurance, based on AM Best’s full-year 2024 data for firms reporting under n...

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

Accusations Fly About Immigration Status of Truck Driver in Fatal Florida Accident

Insurance Journal

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Monday that a truck driver accused of making an illegal U-turn that killed three people in Florida was in the country illegally, fueling a verbal tussle with California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office ov...

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

Brian Glod to lead Marsh’s Aviation and Space as Global Head

Reinsurance News

Insurance broker and risk advisor Marsh, a Marsh McLennan business, has announced the appointments of Brian Glod as Global Head of Aviation and Space and Tony Ambrose as Global Chairman of Aviation and Space, effective September 1. Based in New Yo...

Posted: Aug 21, 2025