Insurance Journal
New Jersey-based insurance broker World Insurance Associates reports that it acquired the business of Mossbrook & Hicks Insurance Agency of Cape May Court House, New Jersey on August 1, 2025. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The perso...
Posted: Nov 26, 2025
Hackers have struck elite US universities in recent weeks, pilfering sensitive data from donors and making off with students’ information in a string of digital heists that only add stress to schools already besieged with political pressure. Da...
Posted: Nov 26, 2025
The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) and State Farm are partnering for the 2025 Lock It Down! campaign—an ongoing statewide effort to reduce motor vehicle theft, burglary, and fraud-related crime. This year’s campaign includes a new component:...
Posted: Nov 25, 2025
Homesellers in the US are yanking listings off the market, as the nation’s real estate sector stagnates. Nearly 85,000 sellers removed their properties in September, the highest number for that month in eight years, according to Redfin. The num...
Posted: Nov 25, 2025
Deep inside a report on the future of water in central Ohio is this warning: Industrial demands for water will skyrocket at the same time experts expect farmers will need to regularly irrigate their fields during the critical growing period …
Posted: Nov 25, 2025
ALM Freight, LLC, an Amazon Delivery Service Partner company, and LMDmax Corp., violated federal law at ALM’s Pontiac, Michigan facility by failing to provide a reasonable accommodation for a deaf job applicant after she requested an American S...
Posted: Nov 25, 2025
Texas officials are requiring youth camps to have weather alert systems, mandated emergency preparedness plans, and various communication methods to help children and their families feel safe when they return this summer. But one thing is still missi...
Posted: Nov 25, 2025
The message appears to be getting through to consumers: Excessive insurance litigation is not good for insurance costs. According to a new survey from the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big I), 64.3% of those surveyed are...
Posted: Nov 25, 2025
In a lawsuit begun more than a decade ago and which led to counter-suits, appeals to the Florida Supreme Court and attention from national tort-reform groups, a Palm Beach County jury has awarded more than $50 million to the former …
Posted: Nov 25, 2025
As we close out 2025, it has been incredible to witness the new ways AI and technology continue to transform and be applied across all aspects of the insurance lifecycle — from client servicing to managing email communications and summarizing …
Posted: Nov 25, 2025
UK insolvencies are rising sharply, with a leading trade credit insurer saying any new government policies that stand to raise business costs risk further pressuring vulnerable sectors. The increase reflects the impact of measures announced in last y...
Posted: Nov 25, 2025
Zurich Insurance, Swiss Re, and Swiss Life have been added to a list of insurance firms that must develop resolution plans in case of insolvency, the G20’s financial watchdog said on Tuesday. The Financial Stability Board published an updated g...
Posted: Nov 25, 2025
Utah-based Trucordia announced it has acquired Charles River Insurance, an independent insurance agency based in Framingham, Massachusetts that serves the greater Boston and central Massachusetts regions. Charles River Insurance provides personal, co...
Posted: Nov 25, 2025
Royal Bank of Canada denies claims that it fostered a “boys’ club” environment at its US capital-markets business, disputing allegations that the firm engaged in sex-based discrimination against female bankers and offered unequal pa...
Posted: Nov 25, 2025
On the hunt for cheap and fast strategies to prevent deadly wildfires, utilities across the US and Europeare contracting with a handful of artificial intelligence startups to map wildfire risk along thousands of miles of power lines, picking out indi...
Posted: Nov 25, 2025
Heavy rainfall has unleashed deadly floods across Southeast Asia, damaging crops and stranding tourists, with more downpours expected into early next week. Flooding in southern Thailand has killed at least 13 people and swamped around 800,000 househo...
Posted: Nov 25, 2025
Insurers putting money into one of private credit’s hottest trends will face fresh oversight from the EU’s financial stability watchdog, under new proposals to bridge the gap between member states on a deal to revamp Europe’s securi...
Posted: Nov 25, 2025
A Credit Suisse unit in Bermuda lost its UK court fight to topple a $600 million damages award to sanctioned Georgian tycoon Bidzina Ivanishvili. The Privy Council — the top tribunal for cases brought in many British territories — dismissed …
Posted: Nov 25, 2025
Thanksgiving is the No. 1 day of the year for home cooking fires in the U.S., and leaving food unattended is the leading cause, the Red Cross reported. According to the National Fire Protection Association, cooking accounts for 80% of …
Posted: Nov 25, 2025
When accountants at mid-tier firm Moore Kingston Smith began using artificial intelligence to speed up their work, profit margins jumped. Colleagues in another team running checks against corporate fraud created a report for customers in two hours, s...
Posted: Nov 25, 2025
Binance Holdings Ltd. faces a lawsuit claiming the cryptocurrency platform “knowingly facilitated” crypto transactions by Hamas before the group attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and taking 250 hostages. More than 300...
Posted: Nov 25, 2025
While insurance consumers may be warming up to artificial intelligence, 68% say they believe the insurance company gets most of or all the benefits of AI adoption. AI is becoming more ingrained and accepted as part of the insurance industry’s &...
Posted: Nov 25, 2025
A barge carrying 192 shipping containers that ran aground in the Bahamas and was quickly looted has returned to Jacksonville, ending a stormy journey that will likely result in millions of dollars in insurance claims. The barge, known as the …
Posted: Nov 25, 2025
A barge carrying 192 shipping containers that ran aground in the Bahamas and was quickly looted has returned to Jacksonville, ending a stormy journey that will likely result in millions of dollars in insurance claims. The barge, known as the …
Posted: Nov 25, 2025
Insurtech bolt launched a new homeowners insurance offering the firm is calling VTRO. VTRO is a California-based managing general agent created by bolt. VTRO combines comprehensive coverage with bolt’s smart water sensor technology. The firm sa...
Posted: Nov 25, 2025