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Viewpoint: East London Faces Risks of Extreme Flooding – But Resilience Can Be Built

Insurance Journal

More than 1,000 properties flooded in London in 2021, resulting in insurance losses of more than £281 million. Record-breaking floods continue to hit the UK. In the capital, 13% of properties have been classed as having a high or medium …

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

Michael Lewis succeeds Sarah Robson as President, Marsh Risk Canada

Reinsurance News

Michael Lewis has been promoted to President of Marsh Risk Canada, succeeding Sarah Robson, who will continue to serve as Marsh Canada CEO. Starting April 1st, Lewis will be responsible for the strategic development and execution of Marsh Risk&#82...

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

Brazil’s IRB(Re) posts considerably higher underwriting profit for 2025

Reinsurance News

Brazilian reinsurance company IRB(Re) produced a stronger underwriting result for both the fourth quarter and full year 2025 with an improved combined ratio, although the top-line reduced for both periods, driven mostly by the impact of cancelled...

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

MAPFRE Re establishes India branch office

Reinsurance News

Spanish insurance company MAPFRE’s reinsurance branch, MAPFRE Re, has received approval from the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) of India to open its newest branch office in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (...

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

Odido Telecom Says Customer Data Compromised in Cyberattack

Insurance Journal

Dutch telecommunications group Odido said it was hit with a cyberattack that compromised customer data, though services have remained operational. The mobile network, owned by buyout firms Apax Partners and Warburg Pincus, said Thursday in a statemen...

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

Lloyd’s promotes Emma Loynes to CEO of APMEA

Reinsurance News

Emma Loynes has been promoted to the role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa (APMEA) at the specialist Lloyd’s insurance and reinsurance marketplace, succeeding Chris Mackinnon. Loynes joined Lloyd&#8217...

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

Owner of Insurtech Startup InsuranceDekho Is Said to Plan $250 Million India IPO

Insurance Journal

Girnar Insurance Brokers Pvt., which operates insurance tech startup InsuranceDekho, is weighing an initial public offering in Mumbai that could raise as much as $250 million, according to people familiar with the matter. The Gurugram-based insurance...

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

MS Re lifts 9M’25 income to $341m on benign loss experience and premium growth

Reinsurance News

MS Re, the Switzerland-domiciled reinsurance entity of MS&AD Holdings, has reported net income of $341 million for the first nine months of 2025 on an IFRS 17 basis, representing an increase of $119 million from $222 million in the same period...

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

Lane & Associates Nearly Triples Premium with ALIS DX

Insurance Journal

Since implementing the cloud-based MGA platform, Lane & Associates has achieved 190% premium growth and a 6x increase in net income. Background Lane & Associates is a Louisiana-based independent surplus lines broker and MGA specializing in co...

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

Liberty Mutual details leadership transition at Global Risk Solutions

Reinsurance News

Liberty Mutual Insurance, a property and casualty insurer, has recently announced that Neeti Bhalla Johnson will step down from her role as President of Global Risk Solutions (GRS) effective March 6, 2026, as she pursues new opportunities. As Pres...

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

DUAL and SCOR team up to expand corporate insurance capacity in Brazil

Reinsurance News

DUAL, one of the world’s largest Managing General Agents (MGAs) and part of Howden, has partnered with global reinsurer SCOR to bring enhanced capacity to the Brazilian corporate insurance market. Under the agreement, DUAL Brazil and SCOR will rep...

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

Kuwait Re posts rise in net profit to $65m for 2025

Reinsurance News

Kuwait Reinsurance Company achieved a roughly 41% year-on-year rise in net profit for 2025 to $65 million, as total insurance revenue increased by 13% to around $294 million. After insurance services expenses of $257 million in 2025, the insurance...

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

MS Amlin’s profit up to £162m as combined ratio strengthens in Q3’25

Reinsurance News

Global re/insurer MS Amlin, part of MS&AD Holdings, generated an insurance service profit of £183 million for the period January to September 2025 (Q3’25), an increase of 53% year-on-year, as the firm’s combined ratio strengthened...

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

Lloyd’s adds Fiona Luck and Sean McGovern as new Deputy Chairs

Reinsurance News

The specialist Lloyd’s insurance and reinsurance marketplace has confirmed the additions of both Fiona Luck and Sean McGovern as Deputy Chairs, joining Victoria Carter who has served in the role since 2021. Luck joined the Lloyd’s Coun...

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

Admiral Group to broaden its motor offering with Flock acquisition

Reinsurance News

Admiral Group, an UK-based insurance company, has reached an agreement to acquire Flock, a digital commercial fleet insurance provider. Valued at £80 million, the acquisition, subject to regulatory approval, gives Admiral access to Flock’s innovat...

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

Judge Awards Applied Systems Preliminary Injunction Against Comulate

Insurance Journal

Applied Systems has been awarded a preliminary injunction against competitor Comulate, who Applied has accused of making a fake insurance agency to access its software platform and steal trade secrets. The competitors in the insurance technology mark...

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

Trump’s EPA Rollbacks Will Reverberate for ‘Decades’

Insurance Journal

US President Donald Trump is shrinking the Environmental Protection Agency more quickly and aggressively than ever before, culminating in this week’s move to rescind the crucial “endangerment finding” underpinning key regulations of...

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

Palo Alto Chose Not to Tie China to Hacking Campaign on Retaliation Fear: Sources

Insurance Journal

Palo Alto Networks opted not to tie China to a global cyberespionage campaign the firm exposed last week over concerns that the cybersecurity company or its clients could face retaliation from Beijing, according to two people familiar with the matter...

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

People Moves: Aon Appoints Peiser CEO of Risk Capital; Liberty Mutual Announces Leadership Transitio...

Insurance Journal

Aon announced the appointment of Joe Peiser as CEO of Risk Capital. Peiser first joined Aon in 2021 as commercial risk leader for North America before being appointed to Global CEO of Commercial Risk in 2023. In his new Risk …

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

Florida Engineers: Winds Under 110 mph Simply Do Not Damage Concrete Tiles

Insurance Journal

With tile roofs popular across Florida, and with questionable claims about roof damage raising concerns in insurance and engineering circles, two Florida consulting engineers have offered this guide to aid engineers, attorneys, adjusters and property...

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

AF Group promotes Mike Valiante to President, Commercial Markets

Reinsurance News

Insurer AF Group has promoted Mike Valiante, who joined the firm in 2011 as Director of Field Operations for AF Group’s Third Coast Underwriters brand, to the role of President of Commercial Markets, After joining the firm in 2011, Valiante ...

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

Wildfire Risk Scoring Transparency Bill Passes Washington Senate

Insurance Journal

Legislation to make wildfire risk scores more transparent passed out of the Washington state Senate on nearly unanimously. Senate Bill 5928, which passed 48-1, is being pushed by Insurance Commissioner Patty Kuderer. The bill is sponsored by Sen. Jud...

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

People Moves: Gavlick Named IICF Northeast Chair; Lawley Grows Benefits Division

Insurance Journal

IICF Northeast Announces Gavlick of Jencap Group as Board Chair The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping communities through grants and volunteer service, named Sarah Gavlick, executive vice p...

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

Privacy Activists Call on California to Remove Covert License Plate Readers

Insurance Journal

More than two dozen privacy and advocacy organizations are calling on California Gov. Gavin Newsom to remove a network of covert license plate readers deployed across Southern California that the groups believe feed data into a controversial U.S. Bor...

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

Former Pitt Women’s Basketball Players’ Lawsuit Alleges Abusive Coaching

Insurance Journal

Six former players on the women’s basketball team at the University of Pittsburgh have sued coach Tory Verdi and the school over what they call abusive coaching methods and say their efforts to seek help were ignored. “These players aren&...

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

California Attorney General Investigating Eaton Fire Emergency Response

Insurance Journal

The California Department of Justice launched an investigation into to the emergency response to the Eaton Fire, one of two large and devastating blazes that hit Los Angeles in January 2025. The investigation will seek to determine whether there was...

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

Gun Accessory Company to Pay $1.75 Million to Buffalo Supermarket Shooting Victims

Insurance Journal

The maker of a gun accessory tied to a racist shooting that killed 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo will pay $1.75 million to survivors and victims’ families and stop selling the device in New York, state Attorney …

Posted: Feb 13, 2026

Moody’s Integrates Oasis SaaS to Expand Catastrophe Model Choice

IIR

The new integration provides unified access to more than 700 catastrophe models across multiple vendors.

Posted: Feb 12, 2026

What Insurify’s ChatGPT App Means for Brokers

IIR

The Insurify/ChatGPT launch may prove less a threat than a catalyst for brokers’ AI evolution.

Posted: Feb 12, 2026

ManageMy and the Rise of the Deep Front-End

IIR

As insurers struggle to operationalize customer centricity, ManageMy has built a Deep Front-End platform designed to unify data, accelerate change, and extend the value of core systems.

Posted: Feb 12, 2026

Experian Launches Insurance Marketplace App on ChatGPT

IIR

The conversational tool brings auto insurance comparison capabilities to ChatGPT users and reflects Experian’s broader artificial intelligence strategy.

Posted: Feb 12, 2026

ManageMy raises $45M to Expand AI Platform

IIR

The Series B funding supports product development and international growth.

Posted: Feb 12, 2026

Lassie raises $75 million

coverager

Lassie offers coverage in Sweden, Germany, and France.

Posted: Feb 12, 2026

Kyber and Majesco partner to automate and govern claims correspondence in Majesco Intelligent Claims...

coverager

New integration connects Majesco Intelligent Claims for P&C with Kyber’s AI-native correspondence platform to draft, review, send, and log communications with end-to-end auditability

Posted: Feb 12, 2026

Admiral Group acquires Flock

coverager

Flock will become Admiral’s telemetry fleet insurance proposition.

Posted: Feb 12, 2026

Aviva backs HYKE

coverager

Aviva invests in HYKE to support US expansion.

Posted: Feb 12, 2026

How Geospatial Fusion is Redefining Underwriting Certainty

coverager

For years, the commercial insurance industry has operated under a compromise. We accepted that the more “precise” an underwriting decision needed to be, the longer it would take to make....

Posted: Feb 12, 2026

Honeycomb Insurance Launches in Oregon, Delivering Precision Underwriting with Stable And Scalable C...

coverager

The digital MGA expands into its 21st state, enabling agents to place well-managed properties of any age with fast, property-level pricing and consistent underwriting.

Posted: Feb 12, 2026

Texas, California, and Florida Lead States With Takata Airbag Equipped Vehicles Still on Road

Carrier Management

Texas, California, and Florida Lead States With Takata Airbag Equipped Vehicles Still on Road As one carmaker issued a new warning to drivers of its cars with unrepaired Takata airbags, new data shows more than five million cars on the road still hav...

Posted: Feb 12, 2026