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hyperexponential (hx), a pricing and underwriting decision platform for commercial P&C re/insurance, has partnered with Banyan Risk, marking the first deployment of hx’s full agentic underwriting suite by an MGA across the US, UK, Canada and B...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
DUAL Group, an international specialist underwriting agency, has announced the promotion of Scott Sayce to Group Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), effective 1st April 2026. In his new role, Sayce will report to Richard Clapham, CEO of DUAL Group, an...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
A shooting in Boston. A carjacking in Washington, D.C. A robbery in New York. All were carried out with guns that were among hundreds bought in the South and trafficked north to cities with some of the nation’s strictest firearms …
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
With the use of agent-based AI becoming mainstream, Munich Re has suggested the technology is poised to shape the scope, speed and precision of offensive and defensive cyber measures alike. The global reinsurer’s recently released report, Cyber In...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Meta, Google Lose Case Over Social Media Harm to Kids A Los Angeles ju...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Georgia could become the first state to require every student to be checked for weapons when arriving at a public school each day. A bill is nearing passage that would require weapons detection systems in a further reaction to a …
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Wednesday it will fund up to $1 billion in disaster-resilient infrastructure under a grant program it had previously canceled and criticized as being wasteful. The move was prompted by an order from a US &...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Farmers Insurance, the largest property casualty insurer headquartered in California, has appointed John Pham as Chief Strategy & Risk Officer, reporting to Raul Vargas, Chief Executive Officer of Farmers Group. Pham will work across the enter...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Jurors in the first two trials in the U.S. from a growing wave of lawsuits targeting social media firms over harm to children have found Meta and Alphabet’s Google liable, potentially teeing up an appeals fight that could reshape how …
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Algorithmic Insurance Services, Inc., the wholesale broker trading as LIRG, has provided $15 million in quota-share (QS) reinsurance for New York-based managing general agent DLT Alert. The reinsurance supports the launch of a new suite of embedde...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte has sent letters to the Department of Justice encouraging prosecutors to open new fraud investigations into New York Attorney General Letitia James related to real estate. Pulte wrote separately to t...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Corebridge Financial, Inc., an American multinational financial services company, and Equitable Holdings, Inc., a financial services holding company, have entered into a definitive agreement to combine in an all-stock merger, valuing the combined...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
First Central Group Ltd., the UK vehicle and home insurer, has appointed investment banks as it prepares for a potential initial public offering in London, according to people familiar with the matter. The company has lined up Deutsche Bank AG …...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Reduced vessel traffic in the Strait of Hormuz is not because of insurance availability, but because of safety concerns, the Lloyd’s Market Association (LMA) has clarified in a recent statement. The LMA stated: “Three weeks since the start of the...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
The UK will interdict and board Russian “shadow fleet” vessels in its waters, increasing European pressure on Moscow over tankers exporting sanctioned crude in transactions that help fund the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine. Prime Minister...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Pinion Insurance, a newly-formed, technology-enabled specialty insurer, has announced the appointment of Chris Jones as Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective immediately. Jones is now part of a founding leadership team of Chief Executive...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Uber Technologies and autonomous mobility companies Verne and Pony.ai have partnered up to launch Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service in the Croatian capital Zagreb, with plans to expand to other cities, they said on Thursday. Robotaxis...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Allianz Jio Reinsurance Limited (Allianz Jio Re), the joint venture of Jio Financial Services Limited (JFSL) and Allianz Group (Allianz), through its wholly-owned subsidiary Allianz Europe B.V., has commenced its operations, including underwriting...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump said Iran was desperate to make a deal to end nearly four weeks of fighting, contradicting the Iranian foreign minister who said his country was reviewing a U.S. proposal but had no intention of holding talks …
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
A U.S. proposal for ending nearly four weeks of fighting is “one-sided and unfair,” a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Thursday, whileU.S. President Donald Trump said Iran must make a deal or face a continued onslaught. The Iranian...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
BPL, an independent broker in credit and political risk insurance (CPRI), has appointed Edouard Huberdeau as Director as part of its ongoing global expansion. Huberdeau will be based across BPL’s Geneva and Paris offices, focusing on developing ta...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
It’s not how the program was supposed to work. But thanks to a legal anachronism, Britain’s state-backed plan intended to help those most exposed to flooding has ended up favoring the country’s richest property owners. Economists at...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Willis, a WTW business, has partnered with Circle Asia to launch a new art insurance facility designed specifically for individual collectors and art galleries in Asia, the first of its kind in the region. The facility combined specialist arts ins...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Most insurance agencies know when their technology is holding them back. Manual processes creep in. Reporting becomes unreliable. Teams start relying on workarounds just to get through the day. Eventually the conversation turns to the same question:...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
And 5 tech priorities for carriers looking to tighten marginal spend As direct-to-consumer insurance products such as embedded and app-driven signups increase, the insurance industry faces a great debate over who owns a customer relationship. LetR...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
The Iranian parliament is working on a draft bill that would impose a fee on vessels seeking safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, according to the semi-official Fars news agency. Fars, citing an unnamed lawmaker, said the plan would …
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Specialty underwriter SiriusPoint has partnered with property managing general agent (MGA) Steadily, one of the largest landlord insurance specialists in the US, to provide underwriting capacity. Founded in Texas in 2020 to address gaps in rental...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Everest Group, a Bermuda-based insurance and reinsurance company, has appointed Jason Busti as its new Head of North America Treaty Reinsurance, tasked with leading the treaty reinsurance business across the US, Bermuda, and Canada. Busti will rep...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Pacific Life, a US-based provider of life insurance and annuity products, has released findings from its 2026 Underwriting Outlook Survey, offering insight into how underwriting is evolving across the life insurance sector. Pacific Life reported t...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Verisk, a global data analytics and technology provider to the insurance industry, has announced the appointment of Raja Sengupta as president of its Life Solutions business, effective immediately. Sengupta will be leading Verisk’s Life Solutions...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Meta Ordered to Pay $375M After Trial Over Child Exploitation, User Safety...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Vortex Weather Insurance, a provider of parametric weather insurance solutions, has launched direct access to HailSafe, its parametric hail insurance product. HailSafe can now be purchased directly from Vortex by brokers and weather-exposed busine...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has appointed Ettore Palma to the newly created role of Broker Relationship Manager, effective immediately. In his new role, Palma will be based in the recently opened Rome o...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
While insurance broker valuations remained resilient in 2025, essentially staying near all‑time highs, the elephant in the room—Brown & Brown (NYSE: BRO)—has received little attention. From a valuation perspective, what happened with Brown &...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Verisk and the American Property Casualty Insurance Association released preliminary 2025 underwriting results for the property/casualty industry, with a $40 billion increase over the prior year. For private U.S. P/C insurers, the underwriting gain f...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Verisk and the American Property Casualty Insurance Association released preliminary 2025 underwriting results for the property/casualty industry, with a $40 billion increase over the prior year. For private U.S. P/C insurers, the underwriting gain f...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026