Insurance Journal
The US Chamber of Commerce is appealing a federal court’s refusal to block the Trump administration’s $100,000 fee on applications for H-1B visas that are heavily relied on by American technology companies for hiring skilled foreign worke...
Posted: Dec 31, 2025
Insurance Journal recaps the biggest stories of 2025—across all of our regions—from record-breaking wildfires and climate losses to broker mega-deals, litigation reform, cyber threats, AI-driven layoffs, and signs of recovery in key insurance markets...
Posted: Dec 31, 2025
Bourbon maker Jim Beam is halting production at one of its distilleries in Kentucky for at least a year as the whiskey industry navigates tariffs from the Trump administration and slumping demand for a product that needs years of aging …
Posted: Dec 31, 2025
Property insurers in Alabama will no longer be able to cancel or non-renew policies because of natural disasters or because of losses that don’t affect that line of business, the Alabama Department of Insurance announced in a recent bulletin. P...
Posted: Dec 31, 2025
After three consecutive accident years with relatively stable loss ratios, the projected loss and allocated loss adjustment expense ratio for accident year 2024 rose by 9 points and the combined ratio for accident year 2024 rose by 12 points—the high...
Posted: Dec 31, 2025
Mike Lambert heard fewer illegal fireworks exploding in his suburban Honolulu neighborhood in the months after a chain of blasts at a house party last New Year’s Eve led to the deaths of six people, including a 3-year-old boy. As …
Posted: Dec 31, 2025
NORFOLK, Va—The developers of a Virginia offshore wind project are asking a federal judge to block a Trump administration order that halted construction of their project, along with four others, over national security concerns. Dominion Energy Virgin...
Posted: Dec 31, 2025
Erie Insurance (ERIE), headquartered in Erie, Pennsylvania, named Todd Morrison and Chad Ackerman as branch managers for the company’s Roanoke and Richmond, Virginia, branches. Morrison, Roanoke branch manager, has 15 years of ERIE experience,...
Posted: Dec 31, 2025
For Sue Minter, Vermont’s newly appointed climate superfund specialist, the floods started early. Back in 2011, when Tropical Storm Irene thrashed Vermont, Minter — serving as the state’s deputy secretary of transportation — helped rebuil...
Posted: Dec 31, 2025
New laws affecting California drivers set to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2026, include stricter laws for drunk driving, speeding in school zones and automated traffic camera enforcement. The California Department of Motor Vehicles compiled a list of ne...
Posted: Dec 31, 2025
QBE Insurance Group announced it has closed a new catastrophe bond, which provides the re/insurer with $400 million of collateralized reinsurance cover for named storms and earthquakes in the US and earthquakes in Australia and New Zealand. This deal...
Posted: Dec 30, 2025
The Trump administration has launched investigations into the use of diversity initiatives in hiring and promotion at major U.S. companies, the Wall Street Journal reported. Google and Verizon are among a list of companies that have received Justice...
Posted: Dec 30, 2025
Expanded reinsurance capacity resulted in accelerated softening of pricing across many lines during the January 1, 2026 renewals, according to a report issued by Guy Carpenter, the reinsurance business of Marsh. Carpenter described a “softening...
Posted: Dec 30, 2025
The father of longtime NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin died from a house fire and his mother was left in critical condition after the blaze consumed the couple’s home near Charlotte. Multiple news outlets reported that the 3,700-square-foot house in...
Posted: Dec 30, 2025
The head of the U.S. Department of Transportation threatened to withhold $24 million in federal funding from the state of Colorado for what he described as a slow response to a major violation of federal commercial driver’s license regulations....
Posted: Dec 30, 2025
Patrick Hotze’s three daughters made it home safe from Camp Mystic after July’s catastrophic floods that killed 25 campers and two teenage counselors. He attended some of the funerals and says he understands the outrage over the Texas cam...
Posted: Dec 30, 2025
Data analytics firm Verisk said it pulled the plug on its planned $2.35 billion acquisition of roofing software maker AccuLynx, pinning the termination on a regulatory review delay. Verisk said the decision follows a notification from the U.S. Federa...
Posted: Dec 30, 2025
A Texas power developer is proposing to repurpose nuclear reactors from Navy warships to supply the US grid as the Trump administration pushes to secure massive amounts of energy for the artificial intelligence boom. HGP Intelligent Energy LLC filed...
Posted: Dec 30, 2025
A winter storm that brought intense winds and rapidly falling temperatures to the Northern US including New York has left more than 200,000 customers without electricity. A weather pattern known as a “bomb cyclone” because of large drops...
Posted: Dec 30, 2025
When Bianca Jones, a 33-year-old special education teacher in Memphis, Tennessee, decided a couple of years ago that she wanted to buy a house, she started digging into her Experian credit report. She was shocked by what she found. Her …
Posted: Dec 30, 2025
A shipment of lobster meat worth $400,000 that was being held in a Massachusetts cold storage facility never made it to the Costco stores in the Midwest where it was supposed to be delivered. Instead, it appears it was stolen …
Posted: Dec 30, 2025
The American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA) announced its 2026 advocacy priorities, underscoring APCIA’s mission to advance private competitive markets to ensure access to affordable personal and commercial insurance protection...
Posted: Dec 30, 2025
A train derailment in southern Mexico that killed 13 and injured dozens more is presenting President Claudia Sheinbaum with a fresh test to hold her government accountable. The Sunday accident hit a major rail line that was revamped and operated R...
Posted: Dec 30, 2025
Ryanair Holdings Plc was fined nearly €256 million ($302 million) by Italy’s antitrust watchdog for allegedly using an “abusive strategy” to thwart customers who booked through travel agencies. The Rome-based competition authority s...
Posted: Dec 30, 2025
Coupang is offering compensation worth more than $1 billion to all customers affected by South Korea’s biggest-ever data breach. The country’s biggest online retailer said on Monday it would soon start offering vouchers worth up to 50,000...
Posted: Dec 30, 2025