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Posted: Feb 10, 2026
‘Forever Chemicals’ Quietly Contaminate Drinking Water Wells in the U.S. Kristen Hanneman made a small...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
NTSB Report Finds Second Helicopter...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
Liberty Mutual Group Inc.’s asset-management arm agreed to back Ara Partners’ infrastructure and energy strategies, in the latest partnership between an insurer and an alternative investment firm. The collaboration includes an anchor comm...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
South Carolina’s Safe Home Mitigation Program today, Feb. 10, began accepting applications for a new round of funding for resiliency grants. The program, which provides up to $6,000 in matching grants and up to $7,500 in non-matching grants, re...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
President Donald Trump threatened to block the opening of a new bridge that connects Michigan and Ontario until the US was given compensation and ownership of half of it, saying he’d start negotiations immediately. “I will not allow this...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
Shreveport, Louisiana-based Minden Seafood, LLC, and Dorcheat Seafood, LLC, operators of restaurants Minden Seafood and Dorcheat Seafood and Grill, will pay a former employee $34,000 in back pay and emotional distress damages to settle a sexual haras...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
US insurer Chubb has announced the appointment of Diego Novoa as Country President of Chubb in Panama and Central America, succeeding Xavier Pazmiño, who will take on the role of EVP Marine COG. Novoa brings over 19 years of experience in the fina...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
Greece and Malta have emerged as the main obstacle to a European Union proposal to replace a Russian oil price cap with a ban on the services needed to ship the fuel. The two southern European countries raised concerns about …
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
Florida’s Chief Financial Officer, who quickly showed his cards on wasteful and fraudulent spending at the local level, has now announced a crackdown inside his own and other state government departments, related to fraudulent insurance claims....
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
Specialist Risk Group (SRG), an insurance intermediary backed by Warburg Pincus and Temasek, has expanded its global footprint with the launch of its Australian business. SRG is positioning itself as an agile challenger focused on the mid-market,...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
American International Group announced on Friday it has completed the acquisitions of strategic minority ownership stakes in Convex Group Ltd., a privately held, global specialty insurer, and Onex Corp., a publicly traded global asset manager. AIG ac...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) is opening an investigation into the fatal chemical release that occurred on January 27, 2026, at the Woodland Pulp facility in Baileyville, Maine. The incident at the pulp production faci...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
Sixth consecutive quarterly rate decline signals sustained relief for commercial insurance buyers, though U.S. market shows mixed signals across coverage lines: Marsh Risk. The post
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
Global insurance broker Lockton has appointed Subhash Chandra as Head of Life & Health Reinsurance – People Solutions, Asia, and Julian Park as Head of People Solutions, South Korea. The two appointments, which are effective February 9th, 2026...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
Register: Risky Future AI Tools for Aerial and Geospatial Intelligence ‘Demo Day’ Event...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
TikTok Charged for Breaching EU Rules With App’s Addictive Features...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
University of Texas at Arlington research team demonstrates significant workload reduction for industrial laborers. The post En...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
Following an insurance broker selloff earlier this week, widely attributed to our report that OpenAI approved the first AI app from an insurance provider on ChatGPT, several analyst firms weighed in on the roughly 9% average decline in the stock p...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
Insurance Journal’s Risky Future series is hosting the “AI Tools for Aerial and Geospatial Intelligence” Demo Day, a series of free AI tool demonstrations designed exclusively for carriers, MGAs, claims professionals, underwriters,...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
The US labor board is abandoning a yearslong legal battle against Elon Musk’s SpaceX and signaling it will steer clear of future cases against the company. Two years after issuing a complaint accusing the aerospace firm of firing eight engineer...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
Parametrix, a provider of digital business interruption solutions, has announced the hire of three specialists that will support the accelerating demand for its cyber, contingent business interruption, and data centre insurance solutions. Due to h...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
Two-thirds of nurses who walked out of major hospitals in New York City a month ago have reached preliminary agreements with their employers and may end the strike this week, the union representing 15,000 striking nurses said on Monday. The …
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
Despite a 2025 net loss of $366 million, largely driven by higher losses from the Fortitude Re funds withheld embedded derivative and changes in the fair value of market risk benefits, Corebridge Financial emphasised strong underlying performance...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
Online insurance agent Insurify said it has launched a ChatGPT app to allow consumers to compare and shop for insurance. Insurify said the app is the first insurance app in OpenAI’s directory. “Shopping for car insurance has traditionally...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
Markel Insurance, the insurance operation within Markel Group Inc., has promoted Phil Amlot to Head of Trade Credit for Markel International, effective immediately. In his new role, Amlot will report to Carl Titterton, Divisional Managing Director...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
US insurance broker stocks were pummeled Monday as the launch of an artificial intelligence tool from privately held online insurance shopping platform Insurify sparked fears about the industry facing disruption. The S&P 500 Insurance index close...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
US primary insurer Cincinnati Financial Corporation generated net income of $676 million in the fourth quarter of 2025, an increase on the prior year’s $405 million, while the property and casualty (P&C) insurance arm recorded a slightly...
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The Fidelis Partnership (TFP), a privately-owned managing general underwriter (MGU), has strengthened its team with the appointment of Henning Schuemmer as a Senior Marine Underwriter. Schuemmer will be based in Dublin, bringing with him more than...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
Singapore’s four telecom companies, Singtel, StarHub, M1, and Simba Telecom, were targeted by cyber espionage group UNC3886 in attacks last year, Singapore’s Cyber Security Agency said on Monday. The agency said the hackers were able to p...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
Oasis Loss Modelling Framework (Oasis LMF), a not-for-profit open source catastrophe modelling platform, has launched Oasis Software as a Service Limited (Oasis SaaS) – an industry-owned, vendor-neutral platform designed to preserve independ...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
Verisk, a global data analytics and technology provider to the insurance industry, has appointed Steven Kauderer as President of Claims Solutions business, effective immediately. In his new role, Kauderer will lead a team that delivers solutions t...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
South Korean officials blamed a massive data leak last year at Coupang on management failure, rather than a sophisticated cyberattack, and urged the e-commerce giant to fix vulnerabilities in its security systems. Announcing the first findings of a g...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
Helix Underwriting Partners Bermuda, the multi-line independent managing general agent, announced the launch of its London property offering, Helix International, which has been trading since the start of the year, in partnership with PartnerRe Insur...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
Helix Underwriting Partners Bermuda has launched its London property offering, Helix International, which has been trading since the start of the year in partnership with PartnerRe Insurance Programs and provides capacity for direct and facultativ...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
As advanced technology permeates every facet of society, human empathy has emerged as the ultimate differentiator in customer experience—particularly within the people-driven property insurance industry. At the Cotality™ INTRConnect® 2026 conference,...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026
China’s Nio is recalling 246,229 vehicles due to a software issue that poses safety hazards, marking the largest recall by a homegrown electric vehicle maker. The recalled EVs include models ES8, ES6 and EC6 and were manufactured between March...
Posted: Feb 10, 2026