This Week's Top Reads

Onsi offers insurance solutions and financial benefits to complex workforces, including independent and gig workers, through flexible, usage-based coverage and seamless claims processes.

Posted: Nov 29, 2024

The deal builds on the current protection partnership between NatWest Group and AIG Life, now owned by Aviva.

Posted: Nov 28, 2024

Fitch Ratings has revised Fortitude Re’s outlook to Positive from Stable, citing the firm’s improving profile driven by growth and enhanced diversification across liabilities and geographies, alongside its strong balance sheet. The rat...

Posted: Nov 27, 2024

Global speciality insurance and reinsurance group, Chaucer, has highlighted growing demand in Mexico for insurance protection against cartels and other organised crime, driven by cartel activity spreading into new areas and greater demand from sec...

Posted: Nov 28, 2024

In 2023, around a quarter of the the insurance industry’s total premiums came from personal P&C insurance as the segment’s gross written premiums (GWP) represented around $1.1 trillion, with growth outpacing nominal global GDP in the per...

Posted: Nov 29, 2024

A worker activist has sued the Department of Labor (DOL) to force the release of records surrounding the deaths of three workers at New Jersey Amazon workplaces in 2022. The lawsuit says DOL’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA...

Posted: Nov 27, 2024

A Wisconsin man has been charged with defrauding the Federal Crop Insurance Program, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Wisconsin announced. Lance G. Meier, 52, Ogema, is charged with defrauding the federal crop insurance pr...

Posted: Nov 27, 2024

Travel lines might fall under P&C. Or maybe it’s a limited line. State variations make producer licensing across states a real challenge.

Posted: Nov 27, 2024

The California Earthquake Authority’s (CEA) reinsurance and risk transfer tower has contracted by a further 6% to $7.993 billion as of November 1st, 2024, as it opted to non-renew contracts to limit the amount of capacity in excess of its mi...

Posted: Nov 29, 2024

AXA’s Commercial unit has hired Mike Crane as SME & Specialty Director, effective January 2025. Crane’s appointment follows the departure of Deepak Soni in August. A renowned veteran across the sector, Crane has extensive experienc...

Posted: Nov 29, 2024

Global insurance intermediary group Howden has announced the appointment of Claire McDonagh and Mariana Weigel Munoz to its Accident & Health, Life, and Special Risks team. In their new positions, McDonagh’s and Weigel Munoz’s primary focus wi...

Posted: Nov 29, 2024

For the first nine months of this year, Barbados-based reinsurer Active Re saw its net reinsurance premiums expand by 20% year-on-year to $164 million, as the firm hails 2024 as “a period of significant achievements”. Established in 20...

Posted: Nov 29, 2024