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South Korean firms Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance, Mirae Asset Financial Group and Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co. are in exploratory talks about entering India’s $130 billion insurance market, three Indian sources said. The intere...
Posted: Feb 06, 2026
Presumably, many insurers in the next couple of weeks will continue to announce very favorable quarterly and full-year earnings—the kind of numbers that could draw the attention of legislators and regulators. Asked his thoughts on the potential for t...
Posted: Feb 05, 2026
The rapid global build-out of data centres is a great investment opportunity that also comes with headwinds, but global insurer Chubb’s capabilities in this area are extremely broad, Evan Greenberg, CEO, highlighted during the company’...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
According to the latest research, differentiation increasingly will be shaped by how effectively MGAs operate and connect their teams and systems.
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
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Marsh, Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK), and Everest Group. A summary of these new hires follows here. Marsh Names Quest as UK CEO, Succeeding Lay Insurance broker Marsh announced the appointm...
Posted: Feb 03, 2026
The latest people news in the industry today. The post Katie Davis Appointed Chief Marketing Officer at Arrowhead Intermediari...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Catastrophe risk modelling firm Karen Clark and Company (KCC) has estimated that the privately insured loss from Winter Storm Fern, which brought snow and ice to more than 30 states, will be $6.7 billion. The estimate, which is based on the high-r...
Posted: Feb 03, 2026
State Farm is among the first organizations exploring the use of OpenAI.
Posted: Feb 05, 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
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Germany’s Reck & Co. Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., the Rolling Meadows, Illinois-based insurance brokerage, announced its claims and risk management solutions subsidiary, Gallagher Bassett, has acquired Bremen,...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Specialty property insurer Palomar Holdings, Inc. has completed the acquisition of The Gray Casualty & Surety Company (Gray Surety), a national surety carrier, and has also successfully closed new unsecured financing. The acquisition was initi...
Posted: Feb 03, 2026