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AI Everywhere, But Nowhere in Your Captive? AI & Machine Learning
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
Are Insurers' Capital Models Outdated? Risk Management
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
Gulf Coast Hurricane Risks Rising in Gulf Coast, Scientist Warns The Gulf...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
How Insurers Can Modernize Without Losing Trust AI & Machine Learning
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
Warehouse Tech Transforms Risk Models Commercial Lines
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
Performance gaps widen between firms embracing artificial intelligence tools and those lagging behind, agency benchmarking study finds. The post Lead...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
The Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance (DCI) announced the state’s mutual insurance companies reported a considerable reduction in net losses from $17.7 million in 2023 to just $4.8 million in 2024. In 2024, mutuals managed 205,000 p...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
AM Best has revised the outlooks to stable from negative and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) of “a” (Excellent) of Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insuran...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
The latest people news in the industry today. The post CNA Financial Corporation Makes Trio of Executive Appointments appeared first...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
American Integrity Insurance Group, a specialist residential property insurer, has surpassed 15,000 policies in-force in South Carolina, representing a major milestone in its Southeast growth strategy. This growth in South Carolina underscores the...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
Concern Rises as Self-Inspected Aging U.S. Railroad Bridges Findings Kept Secret This story was produce...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
Police Nab Massive $4.5M Cargo Theft Ring Using LA Store as Front An unassuming hardware store was t...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
The latest people news in the industry today. The post Tara Long Appointed Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer at...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
Is your agency a great place to work? Would you call your agency a “Best Place to Work?” Then it’s time to nominate your agency for Insurance Journal’s “Best Agency to Work For” award. To nominate your agency, you...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
Firefighters will battle intense heat and dry weather Friday as they work to control a fast-moving blaze in the heart of California’s wine country. The Pickett Fire exploded in the hills above the tourist town of Calistoga in the Napa …
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at the broker Aon and the MGA Optio Group. A summary of these new hires follows here. Aon’s Commercial Risk Business Promotes Smaje to Lead Transportation & Logistics Insurance...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
The New Jersey Compensation Rating & Inspection Bureau is mostly back online following a cybersecurity event that caused it to shut down its network more than two weeks ago. The workers’ compensation agency said it “experienced suspic...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
A new, Dubai-based reinsurance broker, Atrea Risk Solutions DIFC Ltd, has chosen the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) as its strategic base to serve clients across the Middle East, Africa, and Southern Asia (MEASA) region. Atrea Risk sp...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
The U.S. gymnastics world was only just recovering from a devastating sexual abuse scandal when a promising young coach moved from Mississippi to Iowa to take a job in 2018 at an elite academy known for training Olympic champions. Liang …
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
Postal services across the world are suspending parcel deliveries to the US, citing confusion about how to process millions of low-value packages that will lose their duty-free treatment next week. As of Aug. 29, President Donald Trump is ending the...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
Nearly seven weeks ago on July 4, the Guadalupe River raged out of its banks and killed more than 130 people, including two teenage counselors and 25 young girls at Camp Mystic who had been asleep in their cabins before …
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
The US will stop issuing worker visas for commercial truck drivers, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday, the latest in a series of Trump administration moves to clamp down on foreign workers. “Effective immediately we are pausing all i...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
Viceroy Preferred Insurance Company becomes the 15th property and casualty insurer to enter Florida’s market since the passage of the state’s impactful legislative reforms. Viceroy is domiciled in Florida and is now approved to write insurance in...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
Marsh Appoints Glod as Global Head of Aviation and Space; Ambrose as Global Chairman; Kline to Lead US Aviation and Space Business Marsh appointed Brian Glod as global head of aviation and space and Tony Ambrose as global chairman of …
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
Two homes on the North Carolina Outer Banks sit precariously in the high waves with their days seemingly numbered. Since 2020, 11 neighboring homes have fallen into the Atlantic Ocean. While the swells from storms like Hurricane Erin make things R...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
Market leaders maintain strong performance despite record $320 billion in global natural catastrophe losses, AM Best reports. The post
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
David Flandro, Managing Director, Head of Industry Analysis and Strategic Advisory at reinsurance broker Howden Re, has said that “if it wasn’t obvious already, we are now firmly in the hard market softening phase of the rating cycle,&...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
Reinsurance underwriting remains disciplined, with terms and conditions and attachment points largely intact, despite signs of rate moderation, according to an AM Best market segment report. During the January 2023 renewals, the global reinsurance ma...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
Two construction workers who contracted Legionnaires’ disease while working at a site in New York City have filed lawsuits against two construction management firms they allege should be held responsible for the workplace conditions that caused...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
Insurance broker Clear Group has appointed Barbara Duffy as Group Chief People & Performance Officer, effective 8th September 2025, and expanded Victoria Gallimore’s responsibilities as Group Chief of Staff. In her new role, Duffy will lead th...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
Slovenian-domiciled reinsurer Sava Re reported gross written premiums (GWP) of €91.4 million for the first half of 2025, representing a 13.5% increase compared to €80.5 million a year earlier. The company attributed the premium increase to seizing...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
Among Europe’s Big Four reinsurers—Swiss Re, Munich Re, Hannover Re and SCOR—life and health (L&H) reinsurance earnings remained consistent in H1’25, supported by steady releases of contractual service margin (CSM) and risk adjustment, accordi...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
Concirrus, provider of AI-centric insurance solutions, has become the first insurtech company worldwide to secure three major internationally recognised certifications: ISO/IEC 42001 (AI Governance), ISO/IEC 27001 (Information Security Management)...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
Governments and employers should take urgent action to help protect the health of workers who are increasingly exposed to extreme heat, the United Nations said on Friday. Climate change is making heatwaves more common and intense, and workers worldwi...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
Aon has revealed that in October 2025, Phil Smaje will assume the role of Global Industry Specialty Leader, Transportation & Logistics, succeeding Lee Meyrick, who will become Chair of a newly created Risk Capital Transportation & Logistic...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
Hurricane Erin is muddling computer models and making forecasters, analysts and traders question the accuracy of the outlook for heat, wind and storms across Europe next week. Erin, which churned through the Atlantic 330 kilometers (205 miles) off th...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
Moody’s Ratings, the credit rating agency, has upgraded Ryan Specialty, LLC, a provider of specialty insurance solutions, to reflect the company’s stronger market position and improved financial profile. Ryan Specialty’s corporate family rating wa...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025
Bermuda-domiciled insurer and reinsurer Everest Group has appointed Laura Hay as an independent, Non-Executive member of its Board of Directors. Hay has over three decades of industry experience, and before her retirement in 2023 she was Global He...
Posted: Aug 22, 2025