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Pinion Insurance Launches With Up to $180M Commitment From Barings

Carrier Management

Pinion Insurance Launches With Up to $180M Commitment Fr...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Questions Remain Despite Mandatory Driver Impairment Sensors Clearing Funding Hurdle

Carrier Management

Questions Remain Despite Mandatory Driver Impairment Sensors Clearing...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Bayer Investors Concerned Over Proposed Deal to Settle Roundup Litigation for $7.25B

Carrier Management

Bayer Investors Concerned Over Proposed Deal to Settle Roundup Litigation for $7.25B Bayer's shares...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

AI Claim Assistant Now Taking Auto Damage Claims Calls at Travelers

Carrier Management

AI Claim Assistant Now Taking Auto Damage Claims Cal...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Verisk Downplays AI Disruption Fears as Quarterly Profit Beats Estimates

Insurance Journal

Verisk’s fourth-quarter profit topped Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, with CEO Lee Shavel touting the quality of the firm’s proprietary data sets amid concerns around AI-driven disruption to the information services business model....

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

ITRC: Data-Breach ‘Transparency Is on Life Support’

Insurance Journal

An annual report for the Identity Theft Resource Center has found that there were a record 3,322 compromises of data in in the United States 2025, but there has been a significant decline in consumer notifications. According to ITRC’s Annual &#...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Suncorp weighs additional reinsurance protection amid favourable conditions

Reinsurance News

With natural hazard costs rising sharply to AU$1.319 billion in H1 2026, Suncorp executives have indicated the group may revisit its use of additional protections, including the potential purchase of a new aggregate reinsurance treaty, amid increa...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Former KPMG international tax specialist joins Gallagher’s Private Equity and M&A practice

Reinsurance News

Gallagher, a global insurance broking and risk management company, has announced the appointment of Adriana Carvalho Assuncao, a specialist international tax and M&A lawyer, as a Director within its fast-growing Private Equity and M&A prac...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Inszone Acquires Texas’ Scarbrough, Medlin & Associates

Insurance Journal

Inszone Insurance Services announced its expansion in Texas through the acquisition of Scarbrough, Medlin & Associates, Inc., a Dallas-based agency with more than four decades of experience serving commercial property clients. Scarbrough, Medlin...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Specialty Program Group Integrates Anova Marine and Logistiq Insurance Solutions

Insurance Journal

Specialty Program Group LLC (SPG), an operator of specialty insurance distribution, underwriting, and consulting businesses, announced the acquisition of Logistiq Insurance Solutions and the subsequent integration of Logistiq with Anova Marine Insura...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Ohio Asphalt Companies to Pay $30M to Settle False Claim Act Allegations

Insurance Journal

Two asphalt companies have agreed to pay $30 million total to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they submitted fraudulent test results to the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) for federally funded asphalt projects in Ohio. Specifically...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Applied Systems reports Q4’25 Canadian commercial insurance premium trends

Reinsurance News

Applied Systems, an insurance technology provider serving brokers, insurers and agencies, has released its fourth quarter 2025 findings from the Applied Commercial Index, which tracks premium rate movements across the Canadian commercial insurance...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Luxury Steamer Wreck Found in Lake Michigan After 60-Year Quest

Insurance Journal

Searchers have discovered the wreck of a luxury steamer that sank in a Lake Michigan gale in the late 19th century, completing a quest that began almost 60 years ago. Shipwreck World, a group that works to locate shipwrecks around …

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

BayPine to acquire US independent insurance broker Relation for AI-driven expansion

Reinsurance News

BayPine, a private investment firm, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Relation Insurance Services, a US independent insurance broker, from Aquiline Capital Partners LP in an undisclosed transaction. According to the announcement,...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Increased HR Workload Drives Employers Toward Integrated Benefits Platforms

Risk & Insurance

Nearly three-quarters of employers report increased responsibilities, prompting shift to one-stop solutions, according to The Hartford's 2026 Future of Benefits Study. The post

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Camden Diocese’s Sex Abuse Claims Fund to Get $180 Million Boost

Insurance Journal

The Catholic Diocese of Camden, New Jersey and several holdout insurers have agreed to add $180 million to a trust fund to pay claims of survivors of sexual abuse by the church’s clergy. The $180 million is in addition to …

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Environmental Groups Challenge Decision to Revoke Basis of Climate Regulations

Insurance Journal

A coalition of health and environmental groups sued the Trump administration on Wednesday over its decision to revoke the scientific finding that forms the basis of U.S. climate regulations. The legal challenge filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Capital management, portfolio quality prioritised over growth, says Conduit Re CEO

Reinsurance News

Conduit Re, a Bermuda-based global reinsurance company, has grown its top-line from nought to more than $1.2 billion in the five years since its inception, and while very robust, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Neil Eckert told Reinsurance News that...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

BayPine to acquire Relation Insurance Services

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Financial terms were not disclosed.

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Progressive reports 84.4% CR for January

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The insurer ended the month with a combined ratio of 84.4% and net income of $1.16 billion.

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Brown & Brown acquires American Adventure Insurance

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Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Florida Regulators Crack the Whip on Auto Warranty Firm, Fake Certificates of Insurance

Insurance Journal

Florida regulators announced a crackdown on people selling vehicle insurance products without a license. Insurance Commissioner Michael Yaworsky this week ordered American Dream Auto Protect Inc., an auto warranty company, to cease operations because...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Pinion Insurance Launches With Up to $180 Million Commitment From Barings

Insurance Journal

Specialty insurance platform Pinion Insurance announced its launch yesterday. The company will offer insurance capacity for managing general agents (MGAs) across the U.S., U.K. and European markets through a fully integrated innovative proprietary te...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Tesla Avoids California Sales Halt Over Autopilot Marketing

Insurance Journal

Tesla Inc. will be allowed to continue selling electric vehicles in California uninterrupted after the company revised what the state had called misleading marketing of driver-assistance technology. The automaker has taken “corrective action&#8...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Sompo gets regulatory approvals for $3.5bn Aspen acquisition

Reinsurance News

Sompo Holdings, Inc. has reportedly received the necessary antitrust and insurance regulatory approvals required to complete its acquisition of 100% of the issued Class A ordinary shares of Aspen Insurance through a wholly owned subsidiary of Somp...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Swiss Re appoints Anne Lohbeck as Chief Risk Officer for P&C Re

Reinsurance News

Zurich-domiciled global reinsurance company Swiss Re has appointed Anne Lohbeck as Chief Risk Officer for P&C Re, effective 1st May 2026. Lohbeck will report to Bernhard Kaufmann, Group Chief Risk Officer, and join the Risk Management Executiv...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Global Insurtech Funding Surges on Record Re/Insurance Investments: Gallagher Re

Insurance Journal

Investments in global insurtech rose 19.5% during 2025 to US$5.08 billion from US$4.25 billion in FY 2024, marking the first annual increase since 2021, according to Gallagher Re’s Q4 Global Insurtech Report. During the fourth quarter of 2025,...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

‘We Failed Them:’ MS Senators Call for Improved Disaster Response After Storm

Insurance Journal

North Mississippi senators pleaded for an improved disaster response from the state last week as thousands of their constituents still lacked power nearly three weeks after the January winter storm. Sen. Rita Potts Parks, a Republican from Corinth, r...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Verisk caps off 2025 with revenue of $3.07bn

Reinsurance News

Verisk, a strategic data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry, has reported total revenue of $3.073 billion for 2025, an increase of 6.6% compared with 2024. According to the firm, underwriting revenues rose 7.7% from...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026