Insurance Journal

Florida Citizens Moves to Have Commercial Claims Disputes Decided by DOAH

Three years after Citizens Property Insurance Corp. made the unprecedented move to resolve many of its residential claims disputes through a state agency instead of through litigation, officials are now planning to send some commercial claims down th...

Posted: Jun 26, 2025

Slide’s Exec Pay Leads to Questions About Florida Citizens’ Rate Model

At Wednesday’s Board of Governors meetings, a Citizens Property Insurance Corp. committee voted to move ahead with the full, 15% average rate increase for personal lines in 2026 – the largest increase allowed under Citizens’ statutory gli...

Posted: Jun 26, 2025

US E&S Growth Slowed Again in ’24; Berkshire, AIG Top Premium Rankings

A recent analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence reveals that the pace of growth in the U.S. excess and surplus lines market slowed to 13.4% in 2024, down from 14.5% a year earlier. While growth stayed up in double digits …

Posted: Jun 26, 2025

HEMIC to Act as a Servicing Facility for Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund

HEMIC Insurance Managers is accepting apartment and condominium owner associations (AOAO) applications for hurricane coverage from Hawaii licensed insurance agents. The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs announced that the Hawaii Hurricane R...

Posted: Jun 26, 2025

MIT Sued by Student, Instructor Claiming Campus Antisemitism

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was sued by an instructor and a former student who claim the school’s administration failed to address a “hostile anti-Semitic environment” on campus following the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in I...

Posted: Jun 26, 2025

Tesla Sued Over Model S Crash That Killed Three in New Jersey

Tesla was sued on Monday by the estates of three people killed last September when their 2024 Model S equipped with Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features crashed on New Jersey’s Garden State Parkway. The wrongful death lawsuit filed in the &...

Posted: Jun 26, 2025

Idaho Woman Sentenced for Concealing Insurance Fraud Conviction on Application

An Idaho woman was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison and fined for applying for insurance coverage while concealing a prior felony conviction for insurance fraud. Elisa Hernandez was convicted of one felony count of insurance fraud follow...

Posted: Jun 26, 2025

People Moves: MAPFRE USA Names Pasko; Roosevelt Road Appoints Cook

MAPFRE USA Names Pasko Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary MAPFRE USA, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, appointed Mark Pasko as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of MAPFRE USA, effective July 21. Pasko wi...

Posted: Jun 26, 2025

First Financial to Acquire Westfield Bancorp From Ohio Farmers

First Financial announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Westfield Bancorp, in a cash and stock transaction, from Ohio Farmers Insurance Company. Ohio Farmers is the parent company of the global property and casualty insur...

Posted: Jun 25, 2025

Ryan Transactional Risk Launches Environmental Practice Product

Ryan Transactional Risk announced the launch of a new product that will specialize in insuring the risk of cost overruns for environmental remediations and clean-ups. Ryan Transactional Risk Enviro is providing Environmental Remediation Cost Overrun...

Posted: Jun 25, 2025

People Moves: Holmes Murphy Announces New Shareholders

Holmes Murphy, headquartered in Waukee, Iowa, named 23 new employees who made their first stock purchase after completing the company’s premier leadership program, Holmes Murphy University. Shareholders help determine the direction of major com...

Posted: Jun 25, 2025

NHTSA Contacts Tesla on Robotaxi Issues Seen in Online Videos

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is seeking information from Tesla after reviewing online videos of a robotaxi allegedly using the wrong lane and of speeding by another driverless vehicle. The U.S. auto safety agency said it is &#82...

Posted: Jun 25, 2025

Markets/Coverages: Brit Launches Digital Flood Product for US Market

Brit Group Holdings Limited announced the launch of Brit Flood, a new digital underwriting platform for brokers to help address the protection gap which exists in the US flood market. “With floods occurring more frequently, the role of private...

Posted: Jun 25, 2025

Howden Gets Regulatory Nod to Launch Reinsurance Unit in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Howden, the London-based insurance intermediary group, announced it has received regulatory approval to launch a reinsurance operation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The new business will be led by Motaz Bukhari, who has been appointed chief executi...

Posted: Jun 25, 2025

AXA Launches Unified Ceded Re Team for Greater Operational Alignment

AXA announced an organizational restructuring that integrates the AXA Group and AXA XL Ceded Reinsurance teams to create a unified Ceded Re team, effective July 1, 2025. The unified Ceded Re team will operate under the leadership of Guy Van …

Posted: Jun 25, 2025

College Team Physicians Wary of Greater Liability Risk With Athletes Making Money

The professionalization of college sports has prompted concern among team physicians that they will be exposed to a greater risk of being sued by athletes who claim a poor outcome from treatment caused them to lose future earnings. Before July &#8230...

Posted: Jun 25, 2025

US Declares Power Emergency in Southeast on Heat Wave

The Trump administration has declared a power emergency in the US Southeast as a blistering heat wave strains grids across the country. The emergency order by the Energy Department allows Duke Energy Corp. to exceed certain air pollution limits and &...

Posted: Jun 25, 2025

Louisiana Attorney General Sues CVS for Deceptive Practices

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said on Tuesday she had filed three separate lawsuits against CVS CVS.N for unfair, deceptive and unlawful practices “that have harmed Louisiana patients, independent pharmacies, and the public at large.&#...

Posted: Jun 25, 2025

People Moves: Storey Named President of Irwin Siegel

Ryan Specialty, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, appointed Brad Storey to president of Irwin Siegel Agency (ISA), the social service industry focused managing general underwriter which is a part of the Ryan Specialty Underwriting Managers division...

Posted: Jun 25, 2025

Oregon Governor Signs Bill Providing Unemployment Pay for Striking Workers

Democratic Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek on Tuesday signed into law a bill that provides unemployment benefits to striking workers, following neighboring Washington state in adopting measures spurred by recent walkouts by Boeing factory workers, hospital nu...

Posted: Jun 25, 2025

New England Electric Grid Under Precautionary Alert

The electric grid for Boston and the surrounding region operated under a precautionary alert on Tuesday as the surplus of power was expected to narrow to a razor-thin margin amid soaring temperatures. ISO New England, the electric grid operator for &...

Posted: Jun 25, 2025

Homes With Toxic Smoke Damage Deepen Insurance Nightmare in LA

Months after fire tore through Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades neighborhood, homeowners are struggling to get reimbursed — not for houses reduced to rubble, but for the damage of smoke and toxins in the properties that remain. For residents such...

Posted: Jun 25, 2025

First Tropical Storm of 2025 Season Weakens in Atlantic

Tropical Storm Andrea, the first tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, was forecast to dissipate by Wednesday after forming at sea Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center said. The tropical storm was far from land in the middle of the &#823...

Posted: Jun 25, 2025

E&S Insurtech Ledgebrook Raises $65 Million

Ledgebrook Inc, a technology-driven excess and surplus lines managing general agency, recently completed the close of a $65 million funding round. The oversubscribed Series C round was led by existing investor The Stephens Group, LLC . Existing inves...

Posted: Jun 25, 2025

DC Sues 4 Drivers With 1,000 Outstanding Traffic Violations

A Maryland resident with 414 outstanding traffic citations, including 360 for excessive speeding, is being hauled into court by District of Columbia Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb who is seeking to collect the $168,168 in unpaid fines and penaltie...

Posted: Jun 25, 2025