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Brokerslink adds Icelandic broker Afkoma to its global network

Reinsurance News

Brokerslink, a global broking business, has announced the addition of Afkoma, an Icelandic insurance brokerage, to its international network. The move extends the network’s global reach, marking the first time an Icelandic firm has joined Brokersl...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

EPA Seeks $140M Penalty for Michigan’s Worst Sulfur Dioxide Polluter

Insurance Journal

When faced with testimony that Zug Island’s EES Coke Battery is one of Michigan’s worst sulfur dioxide polluters, an attorney for the facility said Monday: “So what?” The DTE Energy-owned facility was “permitted to do so...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Yemen’s Houthi Rebels Claim Missile Attack on Dutch-Flagged Ship in Gulf of Aden

Insurance Journal

Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed responsibility early on Wednesday for an attack this week that left a Dutch-flagged cargo ship ablaze and adrift in the Gulf of Aden, underlining the range of their weaponry and their campaign targeting shipping ov...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

German Authorities Suspend Flights at Munich Airport Over Drone Sighting

Insurance Journal

German air traffic control said it suspended flight operations at Munich Airport Thursday evening after several drone sightings, affecting multiple departures and thousands of passengers at the country’s second-biggest hub. Seventeen departures...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Update: Munich Airport Disruptions Ease After Drones Halt Flights

Insurance Journal

Flight disruptions eased at Munich International Airport after drone sightings on Thursday led German authorities to suspend operations at the country’s second-biggest hub. Flight operations have been running normally since 5 a.m. local time, a...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

mea Platform names Rachel Watts as COO to drive AI product expansion

Reinsurance News

mea Platform, a provider of intelligent re/insurance processing technologies, has appointed Rachel Watts as Chief Operations Officer (COO). Watts has over two decades of client implementation experience spanning re/insurance and financial services...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Autonomous: European insurers gain from lower than expected cat losses in Q3

Reinsurance News

Autonomous, the research arm of AllianceBernstein known for its independent analysis of the financial sector, has extended its recent work on reinsurers to examine the impact of this year’s benign catastrophe environment on major European primary...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Kansas Sues Snapchat for Deceptive Practices

Insurance Journal

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach announced that his office filed a lawsuit in Washington County District Court against social media company, Snap, Inc., the creator of the SnapChat platform. The lawsuit alleges that Snap has engaged in deceptive a...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Robin Gordon joins Hippo as Chief Data Officer

Reinsurance News

Hippo, a home insurance firm, has announced the appointment of data and artificial intelligence (AI) expert Robin Gordon as its new Chief Data Officer. In her new role, Gordon will lead the strategic growth and evolution of the company’s Data &#38...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

People Moves: USG Names Hernandez as Underwriter in Texas Office

Insurance Journal

USG Insurance Services, Inc. is pleased to welcome Jeremy Hernandez as an underwriter in its Houston, Texas office. Hernandez will be working under the leadership of Jodi Berger, Executive Vice President: Regional Manager. Hernandez brings with him a...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Louisiana Farm Bureau Approved for Double-Digit Auto Rate Decrease

Insurance Journal

One of the largest auto insurers in Louisiana is implementing a double-digit rate decrease. Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple has approved Louisiana Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company’s request for an 11.8% rate decrease, which ta...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Viewpoint: Avoid Data Indigestion With Harmonization

Insurance Journal

Insurance agencies and brokerages are drowning in data. It flows in from clients and prospects, through client servicing teams, and out to carriers, who also send back data for agents and brokers to process. Like many industries, ingesting data effic...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

S&P Global Ratings upgrades SiriusPoint outlook to positive

Reinsurance News

Credit rating agency S&P Global Ratings has upgraded its outlook on SiriusPoint Ltd. and its operating subsidiaries from Stable to Positive. The upgrade reflects the Company’s consistent underwriting profits over the past two and a half years...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

The Fidelis Partnership promotes Billy Ayres to Head of Crisis Management

Reinsurance News

The Fidelis Partnership (TFP), a privately-owned managing general underwriter (MGU), has promoted Billy Ayres to Head of Crisis Management, where he will oversee the Terrorism and Contingency teams. Ayres will leveraging his expertise in specialty...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

NH Supreme Court Rules Widow’s Death Benefits Claim Not Barred by Time Limits

Risk & Insurance

Ruling establishes that dependents' workers' compensation claims are separate from deceased employees' actions. The post NH...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Brown & Brown Announces Roles Related to Risk Strategies Integration

Insurance Journal

Brokerage Brown & Brown announced updates to its retail segment leadership team as part of its ongoing integration efforts following the acquisition of Risk Strategies. The leaders from Risk Strategies listed below will join the existing retail s...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Court Rejects $5M Claim for Racehorse Death, Rules Vitamin Injection Was ‘Medication’

Risk & Insurance

6th Circuit decision clarifies that common veterinary treatments fall within insurance policy's exclusions for 'drugs or medication.' The post

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

S&P assigns ‘A’ rating to BWS’ North End Re Ltd. (Bermuda)

Reinsurance News

S&P Global Ratings has assigned a ‘A-‘ financial strength and long-term issuer credit ratings, with a stable outlook, to North End Re Bermuda Ltd. (NERB), a Bermuda-based entity of Brookfield Wealth Solutions (BWS). NERB is considered to...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Melinda Eckard Named VP of Employee Benefits Operations and Client Experience at The MJ Companies

Risk & Insurance

The latest people news in the industry today. The post Melinda Eckard Named VP of Employee Benefits Op...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Cate DelaCruz Promoted to Executive Vice President and Head of Analytics at Protecdiv

Risk & Insurance

The latest people news in the industry today. The post Cate DelaCruz Promoted to Executive Vice President and Head...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Himadri Trivedi Appointed Business Transformation Lead at HDI Global USA

Risk & Insurance

The latest people news in the industry today. The post Himadri Trivedi Appointed Business Transformation Lead at HDI Global USA...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Florida Reforms Are Truly Making a Difference, Gallagher Re Report Finds

Insurance Journal

If Florida’s insurance market needed more indication that 2022 legislative reforms have made a big difference in the cost of doing business in the state, one of the biggest names in reinsurance has provided it. “Clearly, it is time for &#...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Georgia High Court Sides with Slave Descendants on Island Zoning Changes

Insurance Journal

Georgia’s highest court on Tuesday sided with Black landowners in a fight over zoning changes that weakened long-standing protections for one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee communities founded by freed slaves. The state Supreme Court...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

People Moves: California Commissioner Makes COIN Advisory Board, Curriculum Board Appointments

Insurance Journal

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara appointed Veronica Saldaña as the newest member of the California Organized Investment Network advisory board and Jason Meyerson to the curriculum board of the California Department of Insurance. COIN wa...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

People Moves: Protecdiv Promotes DelaCruz to Head of Analytics

Insurance Journal

Protecdiv Promotes DelaCruz to EVP. Head of Analytics Insurance and reinsurance brokerage Protecdiv, headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, promoted Cate DelaCruz to executive vice president and head of analytics at Protecdiv. DelaCruz joined P...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Howden names Carol Murphy as Head of US Casualty

Reinsurance News

Howden US, part of the global insurance and reinsurance broking group, has appointed Carol Murphy as Head of its US Casualty operation. Murphy is an industry veteran and brings a proven track record of translating complex risk challenges into acti...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Agent Allegedly Duped Customer into Agency Investment; Third Time Facing Fraud Charges

Insurance Journal

For the third time in less that two and one-half years, a western Pennsylvania insurance agent is facing charges regarding fraudulent business practices — this time for deceiving a long-time insurance customer into investing more than $75,000 in his...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Agent Allegedly Duped Customer into Agency Investment in Third Fraud Charge

Insurance Journal

For the third time in less that two and one-half years, a western Pennsylvania insurance agent is facing charges regarding fraudulent business practices — this time for deceiving a long-time insurance customer into investing more than $75,000 in his...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Agent Allegedly Duped Customer Into Agency Investment in Third Fraud Charge

Insurance Journal

For the third time in less that two and one-half years, a western Pennsylvania insurance agent is facing charges regarding fraudulent business practices — this time for deceiving a long-time insurance customer into investing more than $75,000 in his...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

AM Best Revises Outlooks to Negative for Golden Bear

Insurance Journal

AM Best revised the outlook for Golden Bear Insurance Company from stable to negative, while the ratings agency affirmed the carrier’s Financial Strength Rating of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a” (Excelle...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Former Adjuster Charged With Creating Then Approving $190K in Fake Property Claims

Insurance Journal

A former New Jersey insurance adjuster has been charged with creating and submitting phony claims, approving them himself, and directing nearly $200,000 in payments to bank accounts he controlled. John Philbin, of Clementon, has been charged with ins...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Former Adjuster Charged With Creating Then Approving $190K in Fraudulent Claims

Insurance Journal

A former New Jersey insurance adjuster has been charged with creating and submitting phony claims, approving them himself, and directing nearly $200,000 in payments to bank accounts he controlled. John Philbin, of Clementon, has been charged with ins...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

California Police Pulled Over A Waymo for An Illegal U-Turn, But They Couldn’t Cite

Insurance Journal

Police in Northern California were understandably perplexed when they pulled over a Waymo taxi after it made an illegal U-turn, only to find no driver behind the wheel and therefore, no one to ticket. The San Bruno Police Department wrote …

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Suit Accuses Firearms Group of Using Gun Owners’ Personal Data to Tailor Political Ads

Insurance Journal

A firearms industry trade and lobbying organization secretly built a database containing the personal information of millions of gun owners and used the data to reach gun rights supporters with political ads dating back to the 2000 elections, accordi...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Jayne Cunningham Appointed SVP and Environmental Underwriting Leader at QBE North America

Risk & Insurance

The latest people news in the industry today. The post Jayne Cunningham Appointed SVP and Environmental Underw...

Posted: Oct 02, 2025

Ravin AI partners with ProTowCall

coverager

Initial pilots are underway with select agencies and carriers.

Posted: Oct 02, 2025

Staysure launches AI agent with Boost.ai

coverager

The new AI agent, Susi, will deliver intelligent and always-on support via Staysure's web channel.

Posted: Oct 02, 2025

Hargus promoted at Mutual of Omaha

coverager

Mutual of Omaha has promoted Andrea Hargus to vice president of human resources.

Posted: Oct 02, 2025

Mobilitas Adapts to Thrive in the Mobility Economy

IIR

EVP Jeff Huebner describes how Mobilitas shifted from serving small fleets to partnering with rideshare and delivery platforms, redefining its value proposition in the mobility economy.

Posted: Oct 02, 2025

Manulife Deploys AI Research Assistant for Investment Teams

IIR

The firm has integrated a platform to speed analysis for public markets researchers with human oversight.

Posted: Oct 02, 2025