Insurance Journal
A massive winter storm will sweep across a huge swath of the US starting Friday, freezing Texas before roaring up the East Coast, where New York City and Boston are seeing a strong chance of heavy snow by Sunday. Air …
Posted: Jan 21, 2026
Trucordia, ranking in the top 20 largest U.S. insurance brokerages, has again expanded its reach, this time with the acquisition of Florida Insurance Inc. in Dunedin, near Tampa. Trucordia, based in Lindon, Utah, offers commercial and personal lines...
Posted: Jan 21, 2026
Insurtech Lemonade said it has launched Lemonade Autonomous Car insurance, and will begin with a technical collaboration with Tesla that gives the insurer access to vehicle data. For starters, Lemonade said the new offering cuts per-mile rates for Te...
Posted: Jan 21, 2026
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) Wednesday restarted a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant after inspections were completed, its first such move since the Fukushima disaster in 2011. TEPCO put online the 1.36 gigawatt (GW) reactor N...
Posted: Jan 21, 2026
In a victory for thousands of women suing Johnson & Johnson over claims that the company’s baby powder and other talc products caused their ovarian cancer, a court-appointed special master recommended on Tuesday that they be allowed to pres...
Posted: Jan 21, 2026
The European Union is ready to strike back at Donald Trump over his tariff threats as he seeks to take Greenland, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said, toughening her rhetoric against the US president. “We are at a …
Posted: Jan 21, 2026
Only three in 10 chief executives are confident in their companies’ revenue growth prospects over the next year, the lowest level in five years, according to a global survey by professional services group PwC released on Monday. The annual surv...
Posted: Jan 21, 2026
Investment firm TowerBrook is acquiring a majority stake in MSA Mizar, an insurance claims management services provider, marking its first deal in Italy since it opened an office in Milan last year. MSA Mizar’s existing investor Columna Capital...
Posted: Jan 21, 2026
Within the realms of general liability (GL) and workers’ compensation (WC) insurance lines, medical abuse is often considered in narrow terms — excessive treatment, unnecessary surgeries, inflated bills. While such behaviors are indeed problema...
Posted: Jan 21, 2026
The battle between Applied Systems and Comulate has taken a new turn with a new federal antitrust lawsuit from Comulate. Late last year the competitors in the insurance technology market traded litigation. Applied Systems sued Comulate on allegations...
Posted: Jan 21, 2026
European policymakers should fuel market turbulence to pressure US President Donald Trump to back down from his Greenland claim, according to a senior executive at Allianz Global Investors. “If I were an adviser to some European governments, I...
Posted: Jan 21, 2026
Bermuda-based re/insurers monitored by Fitch are expected to see a drop in underwriting profit in 2025, reporting an average combined ratio of 92% in 2025, up from 90.7% in 2024, the ratings agency said. For the first nine months of …
Posted: Jan 21, 2026
A new report from the Alabama Department of Insurance suggests that claims litigation and big verdicts are on the rise in the state, inflating loss costs for insurers and putting upward pressure on auto and commercial liability premiums. “…The...
Posted: Jan 21, 2026
A new report from the Alabama Department of Insurance shows claims litigation and big verdicts are on the rise in the state, inflating loss costs for insurers and putting upward pressure on auto and commercial liability premiums. “…The average...
Posted: Jan 21, 2026
World Insurance Associates reported it has acquired the business of Jersey Coast Insurance of Margate City, New Jersey. Terms of the October 1.2025 transaction were not disclosed. Jersey Coast Insurance offers both personal and commercial lines of in...
Posted: Jan 21, 2026
An integrated healthcare consortium headquartered in Oakland, California, that are affiliates of Kaiser Permanente agreed to pay $556 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting invalid diagnosis codes for the...
Posted: Jan 21, 2026
An integrated healthcare consortium headquartered in Oakland, California, that are affiliates of Kaiser Permanente agreed to pay $556 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting invalid diagnosis codes for the...
Posted: Jan 21, 2026
A federal judge on Friday cleared U.S. power company Dominion Energy to resume work on its Virginia offshore wind project, the third legal blow this week to President Donald Trump’s anti-offshore wind agenda. Judge Jamar Walker of the U.S. Dist...
Posted: Jan 21, 2026
What constitutes a fortuitous loss in Arizona? That’s the question the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has asked the Arizona Supreme Court to answer to resolve a commercial property damage dispute. The circuit court is seeking clarity from th...
Posted: Jan 21, 2026
A Portland, Oregon, boy is struggling to recover from infant botulism after drinking contaminated ByHeart baby formula donated through a program that aims to help poor and homeless families. Ashaan Carter, now 10 months old, was hospitalized twice an...
Posted: Jan 20, 2026
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Monday it opened a recall query into about 597,571 vehicles from General Motors over engine failure. The recall affects GM vehicles equipped with a L87 6.2L V8 gas engine that experience...
Posted: Jan 20, 2026
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond announced the State of Oklahoma has reached a settlement agreement with George’s, Inc., resolving claims related to poultry litter pollution in the Illinois River Watershed. “This settlement demo...
Posted: Jan 20, 2026
A federal court has ordered a Cincinnati, Ohio civil engineering firm and its owner to pay $45,699.63 to employee accounts in the company’s 401(k) plan after the U.S. Department of Labor found the company violated federal employee benefits law....
Posted: Jan 20, 2026
The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services issued a bulletin to provide guidance to financial service providers on the use of artificial intelligence. The bulletin says that financial service providers including insurers are expected...
Posted: Jan 20, 2026
Texas is poised to become the largest home for data centers in the country within the next three years as artificial intelligence continues to boom, according to a report published Tuesday. Bloom Energy, a California-based company that provides onsit...
Posted: Jan 20, 2026