Insurance Journal
A Cuban immigrant who had built a new life working at a Kentucky scrapyard died on Christmas Day from severe burns suffered in last month’s UPS cargo plane crash, raising the death toll to 15, officials said. Alain Rodriguez Colina …
Posted: Dec 29, 2025
Aflac said its investigation into a cybersecurity incident discovered six months ago affected more than 22.6 million individuals. The Columbus, Georgia-based health and life insurer said in a statement earlier this month that it has started to notify...
Posted: Dec 29, 2025
Aflac said its investigation has revealed a cybersecurity incident discovered six months ago affected more than 22.6 million individuals. The Columbus, Georgia-based health and life insurer said in a statement earlier this month that it has started t...
Posted: Dec 29, 2025
China plans to tighten rules around the use of human-like artificial intelligence by requiring providers to ensure their services are ethical, secure and transparent. Users must be informed they are dealing with AI when they log in to a service ̷...
Posted: Dec 29, 2025
A widespread power outage in San Francisco that led to Waymo robotaxis stalling and snarling traffic earlier this month has raised concerns about the readiness of autonomous vehicle operators to tackle major emergencies like earthquakes and floods. D...
Posted: Dec 29, 2025
John Parker Campbell describes the wild pigs on his family farm as “a constant headache.” Hogs will eat up corn and peanuts that have just been planted, damaging acres of crops in a night. Some years the hog damage is …
Posted: Dec 29, 2025
The top 10 most popular international stories during 2025 covered a diverse range of topics, including the job difficulties experienced by John Neal, the ex-CEO of Lloyd’s; catastrophe losses from Hurricane Melissa; the rising cost of climate c...
Posted: Dec 29, 2025
A fire tore through the historic Old Port waterfront in Portland, Maine, the day after Christmas, damaging aging buildings and several boats. Flames and smoke spread easily through structures along the Custom House Wharf, a 19th- and 20th-century hub...
Posted: Dec 29, 2025
A Dutch nonprofit is seeking €1.4 billion ($1.6 billion) in compensation from Tata Steel’s Netherlands units, alleging that harmful emissions from its operations have caused environmental harm and health damage to nearby residents. Stichting Fr...
Posted: Dec 29, 2025
The U.S. auto safety regulator said it has opened a defect investigation into Tesla Model 3 compact sedans over concerns that emergency door release controls may not be easily accessible or clearly identifiable in an emergency. The National Highway T...
Posted: Dec 29, 2025
Earlier this month, AM Best provided its initial tally of year-to-date financial results for U.S. property/casualty insurers, reporting a $34.9 billion net underwriting gain through the first nine months of 2025. According to Best’s Special Rep...
Posted: Dec 29, 2025
Acrisure’s announcement to lay off several hundred employees amidst rising AI integration topped the charts of Insurance Journal’s Midwest region in 2025. Midwest readers also paid close attention to State Farm’s decision to impleme...
Posted: Dec 29, 2025
Property insurers have complained for years about roofers deliberately damaging roofs in order to file claims. But few have done what North Carolina Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance and the state’s Department of Insurance did: Set up a sting operat...
Posted: Dec 29, 2025
Mergers and acquisitions were among big stories last year and they continued to catch the attention of readers in 2025. The three largest insurance brokers — March, Aon and Arthur J. Gallagher — announced or closed multi-billion-dollar acquisitions i...
Posted: Dec 29, 2025
Two south Florida injury attorneys, one a former insurance defense counsel, were still missing Sunday after their fishing boat was found southwest of Naples with the engine still running. The FBI has joined the investigation into what may have happen...
Posted: Dec 29, 2025
A federal judge gave a green light Tuesday to New York’s so-called Green Light Law, rejecting the Trump administration’s bid to stop the state from giving people driver’s licenses without having them prove they are in the country le...
Posted: Dec 29, 2025
Aspire, headquartered in Rancho Cucamonga, California, promoted Myles Storms to chief operating officer, where he oversees corporate operations, brand, customer experience, project management, UAT and mailroom operations. Since joining Aspire, he has...
Posted: Dec 29, 2025
California’s wildfire and homeowners insurance crisis were the most read stories in Insurance Journal’s Western region this year. It was a year that saw several major insurers draw back from writing homeowners policies in the state, promp...
Posted: Dec 29, 2025
California’s wildfire and homeowners insurance crisis were the most read stories in Insurance Journal’s Western region this year. It was a year that saw several major insurers draw back from writing homeowners policies in the state, promp...
Posted: Dec 29, 2025
California has withdrawn a lawsuit against the Trump administration that sought to recover roughly $4 billion in federal funds pulled from the state’s long-delayed high-speed rail project, after concluding it can no longer rely on the federal g...
Posted: Dec 29, 2025
There was a lot of news for Insurance Journal East readers in 2025, of course. While readership was strong across topics, readers showed special interest in number of topics and articles including reports on tragic events, recovery efforts, insurance...
Posted: Dec 29, 2025
Lawsuits against major insurance carriers were among the most-read stories in Insurance Journal’s South Central region in 2025. Allstate and GEICO were both hit by lawsuits in Texas this year alleging improper practices. Readers also flocked to...
Posted: Dec 29, 2025
Gallagher Taps Hughes From EY as Tax Specialist in Private Equity and M&A Practice Gallagher announced the UK appointment of specialist corporate M&A tax adviser Tom Hughes as director of Tax Insurance to its EMEA-wide Private Equity and M...
Posted: Dec 24, 2025
The European Union’s ESG framework — a shadow of its former self after a year of deep cuts — is drawing renewed threats from the US. At issue is the so-called extraterritoriality of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and the ̷...
Posted: Dec 24, 2025
A freight lift rose up on its crane Tuesday toward the Louvre Museum — but this time it wasn’t jewel thieves. It was workers installing security bars on the window used to break into the Paris landmark’s Apollo Gallery in …
Posted: Dec 24, 2025