Insurance Journal
Despite clear evidence that plastic is clogging oceans and beaches and breaking down into microplastics that enter our bodies, humans are continuing to produce the material at accelerating rates. The result: Global plastic pollution will hit 280 mill...
Posted: Dec 04, 2025
Devastating floods have killed more than 1,300 people and caused at least $20 billion in losses since late last month across parts of South and Southeast Asia, underscoring the increasing risks from climate change and extreme weather for the region&#...
Posted: Dec 04, 2025
Days after reinstating a group of Federal Emergency Management Agency employees who raised concerns about the government’s disaster preparedness, federal officials have placed those whistleblowers back on administrative leave. The move comes ho...
Posted: Dec 04, 2025
Howden, with U.S. headquarters in Miami, Florida, appointed Elizabeth Neumann as executive vice president, financial lines claims leader. Neumann will be based in New York. Neumann joins Howden from CAC Specialty, where she spent the last two years a...
Posted: Dec 04, 2025
New surveys of Florida homeowners show continued concerns about property insurance, premiums and hurricanes, but policyholders seem to be breathing a little easier in recent months. A poll by Florida Atlantic University found that 49% of respondents...
Posted: Dec 04, 2025
President Donald Trump unveiled his administration’s plan to relax stringent Biden-era fuel efficiency standards, casting the change as a way to lower consumer costs. “Today my administration is taking historic action to lower costs for A...
Posted: Dec 04, 2025
People movers will continue darting across Dulles International Airport for years to come, despite recent incidents that have revived safety questions for passengers who use them. At the Nov. 19 meeting of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authori...
Posted: Dec 04, 2025
T.K. Keen has been named Oregon’s insurance commissioner following a period serving as an interim commissioner. Keen, who has been acting insurance commissioner since being promoted in late May, was appointed to the role by Oregon Department of...
Posted: Dec 04, 2025
In a well-reasoned recent opinion, an Illinois appellate court strictly construed a cyber policy, ruling that reasonable—but contractually unnecessary—payments made by an insured following a cyberattack did not constitute insured “extra expense...
Posted: Dec 04, 2025
Instacart sued New York City on Tuesday, seeking to block enforcement of five laws affecting the grocery delivery company, including higher minimum pay for app-based workers and greater disclosures to customers about tipping. According to a complaint...
Posted: Dec 04, 2025
Washington Insurance Commissioner Patty Kuderer approved nine health insurers to sell group health plans to small employers in 2026. The insurers are: Asuris Northwest Health, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest, Kaiser Foundation Health P...
Posted: Dec 04, 2025
Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt announced state efforts have prevented over $4.97 million from going to bad actors through the Protect Vulnerable Adults from Financial Exploitation Act. “Identification and prevention of financial ex...
Posted: Dec 03, 2025
Two gymnasts who say they were sexually abused at an elite academy in Iowa filed lawsuits Monday against the sport’s oversight bodies, alleging they failed to stop Sean Gardner from preying on girls despite repeated complaints about the coach&#...
Posted: Dec 03, 2025
Two gymnasts who say they were sexually abused at an elite academy in Iowa filed lawsuits Monday against the sport’s oversight bodies, alleging they failed to stop Sean Gardner from preying on girls despite repeated complaints about the coach&#...
Posted: Dec 03, 2025
Three weeks after flash floods in Texas’ Hill Country killed more than 100 people, state lawmakers chastised Kerr County leaders for rejecting money a year earlier to create a warning system that could have alerted residents to rapidly rising w...
Posted: Dec 03, 2025
Uber Technologies Inc. is launching autonomous rides with Avride Inc. in Dallas as part of a previously announced partnership, marking the latest US city where the ride-hailing giant is offering such a service. Customers who request an UberX, Uber Co...
Posted: Dec 03, 2025
Four people were convicted of felony insurance fraud and assault for faking an auto collision that involved a rideshare driver in San Bernardino, California. According to the California Department of Insurance, two of the four people were identified...
Posted: Dec 03, 2025
Rivian Automotive is recalling 34,824 electric delivery vehicles in the U.S. as their seat belt system may fail to properly restrain the driver, increasing the risk of injury during a crash, the EV maker said in a filing with the …
Posted: Dec 03, 2025
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. faces a lawsuit accusing it of fraud and unjust enrichment for selling products from PHL Variable Insurance Co., which authorities say has a $2.2 billion capital shortfall that left policyholders with less-t...
Posted: Dec 03, 2025
Insurance rates for ships calling at ports in the Black Sea are surging after a series of Ukrainian attacks on vessels with links to Moscow. The cost of covering visits to Russian ports in the Black Sea has jumped more …
Posted: Dec 03, 2025
Landlords in Baltimore are being held liable for hiring a convicted sex offender with a violent criminal record who then attacked two tenants and set them on fire, with a jury awarding the victims $21.5 million. The same man murdered …
Posted: Dec 03, 2025
Independent insurance agencies The Baldwin Group and CAC Group have agreed to merge to create one of the largest independent insurance advisory and distribution platforms in the U.S. Baldwin said the purchase price of about $1.03 billion consists of...
Posted: Dec 03, 2025
Families of the victims of a UPS cargo jet crash plan to file a wrongful death lawsuit on Wednesday, according to one of the law firms representing the victims. The UPS MD-11 cargo jet crashed immediately after taking off in …
Posted: Dec 03, 2025
Annie Vargas could see her son slipping away and pleaded with him to seek help. But her son, Brian Wittke, a 41-year-old Delta Air Lines pilot and father of three, pushed back, terrified that getting treatment for depression would cost …
Posted: Dec 03, 2025
OVERLAND PARK, KS (Dec 3, 2025) – Alta Risk, an underwriting manager focused on specialty excess liability and environmental liability insurance, today announced that AM Best has assigned the firm a Delegated Underwriting Authority Enterprise (DUAE)...
Posted: Dec 03, 2025