Insurance Journal

South Florida Insurance Broker Pleads Guilty to Fraud in $133M ACA Enrollment Scheme

A south Florida insurance broker is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty last week to a $134 million scheme that fraudulently enrolled thousands of people in Affordable Care Act health insurance plans. Dafud Iza, 54, of Pembroke Pines, signed a...

Posted: Apr 22, 2025

Multiple Security Failures? Arsonist Faced Little Resistance as Governor and Family Slept

The arsonist who broke into the Pennsylvania governor’s residence while Gov. Josh Shapiro and his extended family slept upstairs on the first night of Passover encountered little resistance as he scaled a security fence, smashed windows with a...

Posted: Apr 22, 2025

Starkweather & Shepley Acquires New Jersey’s AiK2 Insurance Services

Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage, Inc. (S&S) has acquired AiK2 Insurance Services, a New Jersey-based firm specializing in business insurance for wealth and asset managers. As part of the acquisition, AiK2 will rebrand under the Sta...

Posted: Apr 22, 2025

Alaska Native Who Alleged Wrongful Murder Conviction Reaches $11.5M Settlement

An Alaska Native man who maintained his innocence in the 1997 killing of a white teenager has agreed to an $11.5 million settlement with the city of Fairbanks after alleging police acted with a racial bias in a case in …

Posted: Apr 22, 2025

Relation Insurance Acquires True-Course Insurance Services in California

Relation Insurance Services acquired the assets of True-Course Aviation Services Inc. in Camarillo, California. Aejandro Galioto, owner of True-Course, will continue to lead the firm and spearhead the expansion of Relation’s dedicated aviation...

Posted: Apr 22, 2025

Built for the Future. Ready Today.

This post is part of a series sponsored by Expert Insured. The insurance industry is evolving quickly, and let’s face it-legacy systems won’t be part of its future. You’ve probably seen the signs yourself: outdated tech, cumbersome...

Posted: Apr 21, 2025

Walgreens to Pay $300 Million in US Opioid Settlement

Walgreens has agreed to pay $300 million to settle U.S. prosecutors’ allegations that it illegally filled millions of invalid prescriptions for opioids and other controlled substances, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday. The money, plus...

Posted: Apr 21, 2025

California Workers’ Comp Board OKs Higher Pure Premium Rate Filing

The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California’s governing committee on Wednesday voted to authorize the WCIRB to submit a September 1, 2025 Pure premium rate filing on average 11.2% percent above the average approved Sep...

Posted: Apr 21, 2025

Global Natural Disasters Cost Insurers $53B in Q1, With Economic Losses of $83B: Aon

Global natural catastrophes had an insured price tag of more than $53 billion during the first quarter of 2025 – claims driven by California’s wildfires of approximately $38 billion, or 71% of total insured losses across the globe, according to...

Posted: Apr 21, 2025

Global Natural Disasters Cost Insurers $53B in Q1, With Economic Losses of $83B

Global natural catastrophes had an insured price tag of more than $53 billion during the first quarter of 2025 – claims driven by California’s wildfires of approximately $38 billion, or 71% of total insured losses across the globe, according to...

Posted: Apr 21, 2025

AM Best Downgrades Credit Ratings of Texas’ PrimeOne Insurance Group

AM Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating to B- (Fair) from B+ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to “bb-” (Fair) from “bbb-” (Good) of PrimeOne Insurance Company in Dallas, Texas, a wholly own subsidiary...

Posted: Apr 21, 2025

ALKEME Acquires Michigan’s Crawford Insurance Group

ALKEME has announced its acquisition of Crawford Insurance Group (CIG), a highly regarded personal and commercial insurance agency headquartered in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Founded in 2001, CIG serves clients across a wide range of personal and com...

Posted: Apr 21, 2025

Capital Farm Credit Acquires Two Texas Agencies

The Board of Directors for Capital Farm Credit recently supported the purchase of two crop insurance agencies in the Texas Plains Region in an acquisition agreement aimed at serving as a long-term provider of critical crop insurance policies. Bennett...

Posted: Apr 21, 2025

Microsoft Security Vulnerabilities Set Record High in 2024: BeyondTrust

Microsoft reported a record-breaking 1,360 vulnerabilities in its products last year, an all-time high and an 11% increase over the previous record of 1,292 in 2022, according to new report from cybersecurity firm BeyondTrust. Microsoft Office vulner...

Posted: Apr 21, 2025

Crime Syndicates in Southeast Asia Go Global, Defying Crackdowns

Cyber crime syndicates that run multi-billion-dollar scam operations across Southeast Asia are still expanding despite recent law enforcement crackdowns, building links from Ireland to Mexico and reaching a potentially irreversible global spillover,...

Posted: Apr 21, 2025

Kentucky Auditor Announces Investigation of State’s Medical Cannabis Program

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s auditor said Thursday that her office will investigate the state’s medical cannabis program after receiving complaints about the lottery system used to award highly sought-after licenses to grow, process a...

Posted: Apr 21, 2025

Questions About How a Deputy’s Stepson Became the Accused Gunman at FSU Shooting

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Amid the abandoned chemistry notes and other debris left behind after a deadly shooting at Florida State University are lingering questions about how the stepson of a beloved sheriff’s deputy tasked with school safety a...

Posted: Apr 21, 2025

Applied Underwiters Completes Spin-Off of United Risk

Applied Underwriters has spun-off United Risk as an independent, stand-alone operating company. United Risk, which was announced in November 2023, is a global property/casualty underwriting platform comprised of 28 different managing general agent (M...

Posted: Apr 21, 2025

Business Moves: Applied Underwriters Completes Spin-Off of United Risk

Applied Underwriters has spun-off United Risk as an independent, stand-alone operating company. United Risk, which was announced in November 2023, is a global property/casualty underwriting platform comprised of 28 different managing general agent (M...

Posted: Apr 21, 2025

White House Seeks to Bring Financial Regulators Under Its Sway

The White House is stepping up its efforts to bring independent agencies — including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission — under its control, requiring allies of President Donald Trump to approve all ne...

Posted: Apr 21, 2025

Trump Tariff Worries Spur Record Overseas Demand for Japanese Government Bonds

The longest-dated Japanese government bonds attracted record foreign demand last month as money shifted out of U.S. debt in search of other safe havens as President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariffs sparked concerns of a U.S. recession. Oversea...

Posted: Apr 21, 2025

India Plans to Ease Nuclear Liability Laws to Attract Foreign Firms, Sources Say

India is planning to ease its nuclear liability laws to cap accident-related penalties on equipment suppliers, three government sources said, in a move mainly to attract U.S. firms that have been holding back due to the risk of unlimited exposure. &#...

Posted: Apr 21, 2025

Norfolk Southern and OxyVinyls Reach Agreement on $600M Settlement

Norfolk Southern reached an agreement with one of two companies about how much each side will help pay for a $600 million class-action settlement, which the railroad agreed to after the disastrous 2023 Ohio train derailment and toxic chemicals that &...

Posted: Apr 21, 2025

Florida Bill Advances, Would End Board of Engineering, Other Professional Agencies

Elon Musk’s age of government efficiency has spread to Florida, with legislation advanced last week that would abolish at least 22 state boards that oversee licensing and disciplinary reviews for engineers, contractors, building inspectors, acc...

Posted: Apr 21, 2025

Florida Bill Advances, Would End Board of Engineers, Other Professional Agencies

Elon Musk’s age of government efficiency has spread to Florida, with legislation advanced last week that would abolish at least 22 state boards that oversee licensing and disciplinary reviews for engineers, contractors, building inspectors, acc...

Posted: Apr 21, 2025