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Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Insurance Business Magazine - US
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Insurance Business Magazine - US
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Data Center Boom Offers Organic Growth Opportunities for Brokers Like A...
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Beazley Agrees to Zurich’s Sweetened £8 Billion Takeover Bid Zurich Insurance Group AG...
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Winter Storm Fern to Cost $4B to $6.7B in Insured Losses: KCC, Verisk January's Winter Storm Fern caus...
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Large European and some global insurers took advantage of reinsurance market dynamics to reduce the number of reinsurers in their core panels at the January 1, 2026, renewals, according to Jean-Paul Conoscente, P&C CEO of French reinsurer SCOR...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Great American Insurance Group has selected AI travel insurance platform Faye to enter the travel insurance marketplace. This marks Great American’s first expansion into travel insurance. The companies said that with limited modernization and c...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Crew Reinsurance Brokers has unveiled its new brand and corporate identity, marking the completion of a transformation that began in 2016 under the name ATL RE. The change reflects the substantial growth the company has experienced and the maturit...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
A California appeals court on Monday overturned a sex abuse conviction against a former University of California, Los Angeles, gynecologist and ordered the case to be retried. A three-justice panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Liberty Mutual has received approval to convert three domestic mutual insurance affiliates into stock companies and then merge them into a new wholly-owned subsidiary of Liberty Mutual Holding Company (LMHC). The Massachusetts Division of Insurance h...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
A proposed amendment to Florida’s constitution that would allow recreational marijuana use for adults is one of 22 citizen initiatives that failed to qualify for the 2026 ballot, state officials said. The Florida Department of State announced S...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Businesses located or operating across EMEA face increasing exposure to cyber-related fines and penalties as enforcement becomes more assertive, while the insurability of these fines remains uncertain and varies by jurisdiction, according to a joi...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Global insurance and reinsurance broker Howden has announced the appointment of Tim Hewitt as Head of Japan International Solutions and Strategy at Howden Japan, effective February 2026. In his new role, Hewitt will continue to focus on growing Ho...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Fourth-quarter 2025 net income at The Hanover Insurance Group was $198.5 million, up about 18% over $167.9 million recorded for the same period in 2024. The Worcester, Massachusetts-based insurer’s Q4 combined ratio remained relatively flat at...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Global insurance rates declined 4% in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to the latest Marsh Global Insurance Market Index, marking the sixth consecutive quarter of declines. This downward trend was supported by significant insurer capacity, dr...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
MAPFRE Denied Injunction Against AAA Auto Insurance Sales in Massachusetts MAPFRE I...
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MGT, a vertically artificial intelligence (AI)-native neo-insurer, has entered into a strategic partnership with Amwins, a distributor of specialty insurance products and services, to select risks in the rapidly expanding Excess & Surplus (E&#...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
WTW, a global advisory, broking and solutions company, has announced the appointment of Chris Varley as Global Proposition Leader for Commercial Lines Pricing and Underwriting within the company’s Insurance Consulting and Technology business. In h...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc., a property and casualty insurer, reported a record net income of $198.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2025, an 18.2% increase compared to $167.9 million in the same quarter a year prior. In the quarter, operat...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
European countries are taking their broadest swipe yet at social media, with a growing number weighing bans of the services for minors and setting the stage for a new showdown with some of the biggest US companies. The policy was …
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Global insurance and reinsurance broking group Aon has announced that its specialist UK Insolvency and Restructuring insurance and risk team, based in Birmingham, has appointed Catherine Williamson as Growth and Technical Director. In this newly c...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Political violence insurance premiums in Democratic Republic of Congo jumped as much as tenfold last year due to unrest in the east, boosting insurers but lifting costs for copper-cobalt miners, insurance executives told Reuters. Rwandan-backed AFC/M...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Global reinsurer Munich Re has appointed Till Böhmer as Head of Central Analytics (Data, Analytics and AI Division). Böhmer will serve in this role in an interim capacity for the next nine months, leading the central analytics function. He will be...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
China will ban ‘hidden’ car door handles from 2027, becoming the first country to phase out a design pioneered by Tesla and adopted by Chinese competitors including Xiaomi. The hidden handle design, which functions through a key fob or mo...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
(TOWSON, MD)—Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance Company’s Board of Directors declared the company’s highest-ever policyholder dividend of $60 million for 2026. This marks the ninth consecutive year that the company is declaring dividen...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
In its full-year 2025 and Q4 results, Chubb reported record P&C underwriting income of $6.53 billion, an 11.6% increase over 2024, alongside a record-low combined ratio of 85.7%. Evan G. Greenberg, Chubb’s Chairman and CEO, hailed 2025 as a gr...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
If you’re running a multi-carrier MGA in Texas, chances are your accounting and commissions workflow looks like this: Multiple carrier commission structures Split payments across brokers, sub-agents, and producers Midterm premium changes with n...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Zurich Insurance Group AG has made a sweetened £8 billion ($11 billion) bid to buy Beazley Plc, an offer that’s won the tentative approval of the UK insurer’s board. The Swiss insurance giant’s revised cash proposal of 1,310 pence a...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Bermuda-based reinsurer RenaissanceRe (RenRe) generated underwriting income of $669 million for the fourth quarter of 2025 and underwriting income of $1.3 billion for the full year, with a strong performance across the firm’s three drivers o...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Bermuda-based insurer and reinsurer AXIS Capital Holdings Limited has expanded Dan Draper’s role to include serving as the Head of AXIS Re and has appointed Ann Haugh to the newly created role of Group Chief Operations Officer (COO). The appointme...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Verisk, a global data analytics and technology provider to the insurance industry, has estimated insured industry losses to property and auto from Winter Storm Fern to reach $4 billion, largely driven by freeze impacts, with supplemental losses fr...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Zurich and Beazley have confirmed that they have reached an agreement in principle on the key financial terms of a possible recommended cash offer by Zurich for the entire issued and to-be-issued ordinary share capital of specialist insurer Beazle...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
French reinsurer SCOR has disclosed its January 2026 Property & Casualty (P&C) reinsurance renewal results, reporting selective portfolio growth in a competitive pricing environment, with overall estimated gross premium income (EGPI) from...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Sophie Wentges is joining Willis Re’s Catastrophe Analytics team, where she will support the London and Bermuda broking teams and will be based in London. Wentges has around 12 years of experience in specialty catastrophe modelling across broking...
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A federal judge on Tuesday rejected Elon Musk’s bid to dismiss a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit that claimed he waited too long to disclose his purchases of Twitter shares in 2022. U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan in Washi...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Hub International Limited (HUB), headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, named Andrea Baldrica as chief sales officer of U.S. Employee Benefits. Baldrica will be responsible for driving HUB’s national employee benefits sales strategy and comprehens...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
The American Property Casualty Insurance Association testified on Capitol Hill Jan. 3 in support of the Fix Our Forests Act. The legislation, led by Reps. Bruce Westerman, R-Ariz., and Scott Peters, D-Calif., was passed by the House following the Jan...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026