Insurance Journal
Willis, a WTW business, announced the launch of Gemini, the first digital facility designed to deliver sustainable capacity locally to clients across their insurance portfolios. This solution is designed to address the increasing complexity of risk a...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
Italy’s Ventina glacier, one of the biggest in northern Lombardy, has melted so much due to climate change that geologists can no longer measure it the way they have for the past 130 years. After this year’s hot summer, geologists …
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
Orange SA’s Belgian business said that hackers gained access to data from 850,000 customer accounts, in the third major cyberattack targeting the French telecommunications firm this year. The company detected that one of its IT systems had been...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
One month after being hit by European Union sanctions, India’s Nayara Energy Ltd. is relying on a growing pool of dark-fleet tankers to transport its products, and a narrowing menu of crude imports to keep its operations running. The oil …...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
Canadian energy giants Cenovus Energy Inc. and Enbridge Inc. are facing a greenwashing complaint by an investor group that accuses the companies of misleading disclosures over emissions targets. Investors for Paris Compliance (I4PC) accused the oil s...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
With more states adding or considering restrictions on third-party funding of lawsuits, one of the largest litigation finance firms is now planning to invest directly in some law firms. “We are pursuing strategic minority investments in firms w...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
Are property/casualty insurers facing a potential retention problem with small business customers? According to the J.D. Power 2025 U.S. Small Commercial Insurance Study, just 55% of customers say they “definitely will” renew with their c...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
In Montpelier, city officials plan to remove the Pioneer Street Dam and restore a nearby floodplain. Together, the projects are predicted to have compounding positive effects that reduce flood risk in the city. The Pioneer Street Dam — an old …
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
CREST Insurance Group named Jennifer Gibbs relationship development manager for CREST’s personal lines division. Gibbs will work out if the firm’s San Diego, California, headquarters. Gibbs has more 20 years of experience in wholesale pro...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
Long-distance runner Evie Parts has sued the NCAA and Swarthmore College as well as members of its athletic department, saying they illegally removed her from the track team because she is a transgender athlete. Parts’ lawsuit said the NCAAR...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
Arizona, Nevada and Mexico will again live with less water from the Colorado River as drought lingers in the West, federal officials announced Friday. The Colorado River is a critical lifeline to seven U.S. states, 30 Native American tribes, and R...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday recently announced a $200 million transfer of funds from the Professional Liability Joint Underwriting Association (JUA) into the state’s general fund. The transfer was the result of the Attorney Genera...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
A federal judge has dismissed a case brought by a former New York City Council member alleging that a former New York State attorney general wrongly prosecuted him on the grounds that the former state official is protected by immunity. …
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
The opinions expressed here are those of the author, the CEO and co-CIO of Eurizon SLJ asset management. Is technology more job augmenting or job replacing? This has been a long-standing debate. But recent academic work suggests that technology has &...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
The opinions expressed here are those of the author, the CEO and co-CIO of Eurizon SLJ asset management. Is technology more job augmenting or job replacing? This has been a long-standing debate. But recent academic work suggests that technology has &...
Posted: Aug 21, 2025
AM Best has maintained the under review with negative implications status for the Financial Strength Rating of B (Fair) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “bb” (Fair) of Universal North America Insurance Company (UNAIC) based in Ar...
Posted: Aug 20, 2025
Doug Cogan, of Cypress, Texas, has been elected to the Texas Mutual Insurance Company board of directors. He was elected at the company’s annual policyholder meeting. Cogan’s board terms for Texas Mutual, the state’s leading provide...
Posted: Aug 20, 2025
Kwik Trip Inc., a family-owned gasoline station and convenience store with over 800 locations in the upper Midwest, agreed to resolve a discrimination charge filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency annou...
Posted: Aug 20, 2025
NFP, an Aon company and leading property and casualty broker, benefits consultant, wealth manager and retirement plan advisor, has appointed Tom Ryan as managing director of Complex Risk for its Central and West regions. Based in the Chicago area, Ry...
Posted: Aug 20, 2025
A days-long heat wave rolling across parts of the US West is expected to ramp up wildfire risk, prompting California to pre-deploy crews as record-dry vegetation potentially acts as kindling for blazes. Temperatures in Southern California are expecte...
Posted: Aug 20, 2025
Trucordia, headquartered in Lindon, Utah, promoted Leslie Greve to senior vice president of marketing. Greve previously served as vice president of marketing. Greve will continue to support the growth of the business along with the Trucordia brand am...
Posted: Aug 20, 2025
Delta Air Lines and United Airlines were sued on Tuesday by passengers who claimed they paid extra money to sit in “window” seats, only to find themselves placed in seats next to a blank wall. Proposed class actions were filed …
Posted: Aug 20, 2025
Maryland’s first-in-the-nation tax on digital advertising violated the Constitution, a federal appeals court says, because blocking Big Tech from telling customers about the tax violates the companies’ right to free speech. Supporters say...
Posted: Aug 20, 2025
A fast-moving fire roared through a Connecticut home early Monday, killing two adults and two children and injuring five other people, including a firefighter, authorities said. The fire in Hartford broke out around 2:30 a.m., and firefighters found...
Posted: Aug 20, 2025
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear took emergency action Monday to ban the sale of “designer Xanax,” responding to a request from his state’s attorney general who is leading a broader effort to combat the highly potent synthetic drug linked...
Posted: Aug 20, 2025