This Week's Top Reads
Markel International, the international insurance business of Markel Group Inc., has appointed Maureen Tomlinson as Head of Artificial Intelligence and announced the creation of an AI Centre of Enablement. Markel International forms part of Markel...
Posted: Mar 16, 2026
Adverse development in 2025 concentrated in post-COVID accident years signals that loss trends are outpacing pricing assumptions industry-wide, S&P reports. The post
Posted: Mar 19, 2026
The latest people news in the industry today. The post Sarah Morgan, Reed Gaglio Named to Property Leadership Roles at Ariel Re
Posted: Mar 17, 2026
The ongoing Iran conflict is expected to most directly affect the London market and global specialty insurers, given their direct exposure to marine/aviation war, political violence, trade credit and energy lines, according to credit ratings agenc...
Posted: Mar 17, 2026
Nexus Underwriting, an Arrowhead Intermediaries company, has announced the appointment of Walid Youssef as Head of UK Financial Institutions. In his new role, Youssef will manage Nexus’s UK Financial Institutions portfolio and drive the line’s str...
Posted: Mar 17, 2026
The awareness of the value of risk engineering is on the rise. The post Global Risk Consultants Nabs Aon Risk Engineering Group appeared fir...
Posted: Mar 16, 2026
Fitch Ratings has downgraded African Risk Capacity (ARC Ltd.)’s Insurer Financial Strength (IFS) Rating to ‘BBB+’ from ‘A-’ and its Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘BBB’ from ‘BBB+’, reflecting a decline in the firm’s standalone credit qu...
Posted: Mar 16, 2026
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to continue funding the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau indefinitely, saying top officials had unlawfully relied on deficient legal advice to justify their refusal to do so. The rul...
Posted: Mar 16, 2026
The Environmental Protection Agency proposed Friday to weaken air pollution limits on a chemical used to sterilize medical equipment, a move that would reverse a Biden administration finding of high cancer risks at manufacturing facilities that use e...
Posted: Mar 16, 2026
The busiest U.S. container seaport in Los Angeles is mostly insulated from supply chain upheaval sparked by U.S.-Israel attacks on Iran that have spiraled into a regional conflict, its executive director Gene Seroka said on Thursday. The Iran war has...
Posted: Mar 16, 2026
Posted: Mar 19, 2026
The Reinsurance Association of America (RAA) has rejected the Hamilton Project’s proposal for US Re, a federal reinsurance entity for homeowners insurance, arguing that it fails to address the underlying drivers of insurance costs. The proposal wa...
Posted: Mar 19, 2026