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This edition of International People Moves details appointments at QBE European Operations and London-based underwriting agency Doe and Emuss. QBE Promotes Massé to Head of European Claims Commercial insurer QBE has promoted Virginie Massé to the rol...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
The Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA) has released its 2025 Annual Report, highlighting “a year of strong growth, innovation, and industry-wide impact across the MGA sector.” The report, which covers the period from August 2024 to July 2...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
Coterie Insurance, a tech-enabled and data-focused managing general agent (MGA), has appointed Mike Albert as Chief Technology Officer and Allan Egbert as Chief Platform Officer. Albert and Egbert have worked with Coterie as advisors since early 2...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
Somerset Life Re, a new reinsurance company domiciled in Bermuda and a subsidiary of Somerset Re, has received a Financial Strength Rating of A (Excellent) and a Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a” (Excellent) from AM Best. The ratings reflect t...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
Google will pay $30 million to settle a lawsuit claiming it violated the privacy of children using YouTube by collecting their personal information without parental consent, and using it to send targeted ads. A preliminary settlement of the proposed...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
XPT Specialty, a wholesale broker for commercial and personal insurance, has announced the appointment of three new underwriters: Will Pinson, Janet Christenberry, and Charles Bethishou. The hires expand XPT Specialty’s operations into Atlanta and...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
A member of a notorious cybercrime gang known as Scattered Spider was sentenced on Wednesday to ten years in prison in connection with a string of major hacks and cryptocurrency thefts. US District Judge Harvey Schlesinger delivered the sentence to &...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
Hurricane Erin is triggering dangerous beach conditions across much of the US East Coast that will likely last into the weekend, as the storm pushes north in the waning days of the summer travel season. Erin is not currently forecast …
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
Mike van der Straaten, Chief Executive Officer of Antares Global, a provider of insurance and reinsurance capacity, has said that the balance of power is shifting back towards buyers of reinsurance, with greater competition and gradually returning...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
According to analysts at Howden, the global insurance and reinsurance broking group, after a “relatively restrained” January 1st aviation renewal, a series of high-profile losses and evolving dynamics in the first half of 2025, market...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
Markel Insurance, the insurance division of Markel Group Inc., has appointed Alain Paris as Vice President, Product Line Leader – Primary Casualty, effective immediately. In this new role, Paris will be responsible for leading the primary ca...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
Oka, the US carbon-credit insurance carrier, has announced the expansion of its climate risk solutions with the launch of a new green credit insurance offering. The expansion builds on Oka’s carbon products, and aims to de-risk a wider range of su...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
Islamic and Takaful insurers in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are expected to see a sharp decline in earnings in 2025, despite continuing to benefit from solid revenue growth, according to S&P Global Ratings. S&P, a provider of credit...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
Willis, a WTW business, announced the launch of Gemini, the first digital facility designed to deliver sustainable capacity locally to clients across their insurance portfolios. This solution is designed to address the increasing complexity of risk a...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
Italy’s Ventina glacier, one of the biggest in northern Lombardy, has melted so much due to climate change that geologists can no longer measure it the way they have for the past 130 years. After this year’s hot summer, geologists …
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
AXA XL, the property and casualty (P&C) and specialty risk division of global insurer AXA, has appointed Eric Judd as an Executive Underwriter, based in New York, as the firm continues to build its energy underwriting team in the Americas. Jud...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
Orange SA’s Belgian business said that hackers gained access to data from 850,000 customer accounts, in the third major cyberattack targeting the French telecommunications firm this year. The company detected that one of its IT systems had been...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
One month after being hit by European Union sanctions, India’s Nayara Energy Ltd. is relying on a growing pool of dark-fleet tankers to transport its products, and a narrowing menu of crude imports to keep its operations running. The oil …...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
According to AM Best, a credit rating agency and data provider specialising in the insurance industry, unstable legal trends in the US could cause casualty reinsurance to reach a tipping point where pricing no longer compensates for the volatility...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
Ryan Financial Lines, a managing general underwriter (MGU) within Ryan Specialty Underwriting Managers, has expanded its national Insurance Agents & Brokers (IAB) E&O Program to offer an admitted product available in all US states except C...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
Canadian energy giants Cenovus Energy Inc. and Enbridge Inc. are facing a greenwashing complaint by an investor group that accuses the companies of misleading disclosures over emissions targets. Investors for Paris Compliance (I4PC) accused the oil s...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
With more states adding or considering restrictions on third-party funding of lawsuits, one of the largest litigation finance firms is now planning to invest directly in some law firms. “We are pursuing strategic minority investments in firms w...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
Are property/casualty insurers facing a potential retention problem with small business customers? According to the J.D. Power 2025 U.S. Small Commercial Insurance Study, just 55% of customers say they “definitely will” renew with their c...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
In Montpelier, city officials plan to remove the Pioneer Street Dam and restore a nearby floodplain. Together, the projects are predicted to have compounding positive effects that reduce flood risk in the city. The Pioneer Street Dam — an old …
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
CREST Insurance Group named Jennifer Gibbs relationship development manager for CREST’s personal lines division. Gibbs will work out if the firm’s San Diego, California, headquarters. Gibbs has more 20 years of experience in wholesale pro...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
Long-distance runner Evie Parts has sued the NCAA and Swarthmore College as well as members of its athletic department, saying they illegally removed her from the track team because she is a transgender athlete. Parts’ lawsuit said the NCAAR...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
Arizona, Nevada and Mexico will again live with less water from the Colorado River as drought lingers in the West, federal officials announced Friday. The Colorado River is a critical lifeline to seven U.S. states, 30 Native American tribes, and R...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday recently announced a $200 million transfer of funds from the Professional Liability Joint Underwriting Association (JUA) into the state’s general fund. The transfer was the result of the Attorney Genera...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
A federal judge has dismissed a case brought by a former New York City Council member alleging that a former New York State attorney general wrongly prosecuted him on the grounds that the former state official is protected by immunity. …
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
The Vermont Captive Insurance Association (VCIA), a global captive insurance trade association, has announced the appointment of Ian Davis as its new President. A highly respected leader, Davis brings to his new role over a decade of industry expe...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
The opinions expressed here are those of the author, the CEO and co-CIO of Eurizon SLJ asset management. Is technology more job augmenting or job replacing? This has been a long-standing debate. But recent academic work suggests that technology has &...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
The opinions expressed here are those of the author, the CEO and co-CIO of Eurizon SLJ asset management. Is technology more job augmenting or job replacing? This has been a long-standing debate. But recent academic work suggests that technology has &...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
, a leading AI claims platform, has partnered with InsureMO to enhance the efficiency of global insurance services. The collaboration integrates Qantev’s AI-driven solutions with InsureMO’s platform to optimise data transfer...
Posted: Aug 20, 2025
The insurer’s group benefits unit will integrate with Workday’s AI-powered platform to help employers streamline benefits administration.
Posted: Aug 20, 2025
State of the Commercial Transportation Insurance Market: Amwins The flee...
Posted: Aug 20, 2025
Researchers Are Resurrecting Billion-Dollar Disaster Tool Trump Killed A climate nonp...
Posted: Aug 20, 2025
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Protected: Why Insurance Specialization Has Become Cr...
Posted: Aug 20, 2025
States Reconsider Setting Speed Limits Based on Outdated 85% Rule Rose Hammond pushed authorities for y...
Posted: Aug 20, 2025
You can serve your clients well by providing important and knowledgeable guidance and support When it comes time to make a claim, coverage for fine arts usually has exacting requirements for identifying a work, appraising its value, and establishing...
Posted: Aug 20, 2025
Insurance Business Magazine - US
Posted: Aug 20, 2025
Coalition is currently live in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and France.
Posted: Aug 20, 2025
Insurance Business Magazine - US
Posted: Aug 20, 2025
The partnership aims to streamline operations, improve efficiency, and enhance the customer experience across the insurance value chain.
Posted: Aug 20, 2025
The integration allows Armstrong’s freight agents to quote, bind, and issue certificates of insurance directly within their TMS workflow
Posted: Aug 20, 2025
Insurance Business Magazine - US
Posted: Aug 20, 2025
Bankers specializes in managing hurricane and flood risks across the Southeastern U.S.
Posted: Aug 20, 2025
Aon is launching a new insurance facility to help food, agribusiness, and beverage companies manage risks like supply chain disruption, climate change, and regulatory shifts.
Posted: Aug 20, 2025