Insurance Journal
The US investment-grade bond market reopened Monday following a three-session pause in activity, as concerns over the Iran conflict ease. Six firms raised a combined $7 billion from high-grade debt offerings, after President Donald Trump said he woul...
Posted: Mar 24, 2026
Georgia-headquartered Oakbridge Insurance, one the largest privately owned brokerages, announced that longtime president and CEO Robbie Smith will be executive chairman, starting July 1. Matt James, the current chief financial officer and chief acqui...
Posted: Mar 24, 2026
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin has promised New Hampshire officials that his agency will expedite its review of the state’s request for a Clean Air Act waiver that will allow it to repeal its vehicle inspect...
Posted: Mar 24, 2026
A fire that broke out Monday almost completely destroyed the 134-year-old Floyd County Courthouse in Rome, Georgia, leaving officials looking for new office space for some government functions, local news sites reported. The courthouse, built in 1892...
Posted: Mar 24, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission ordered a ban on the import of new models of foreign-produced consumer wireless routers after an interagency panel determined they threaten national security. While the FCC said companies could apply for exemptio...
Posted: Mar 24, 2026
The estate of late British tech tycoon Mike Lynch was on Tuesday refused permission to appeal a ruling by London’s High Court that he was liable to Hewlett Packard Enterprise over its acquisition of his firm Autonomy. The U.S. technology …...
Posted: Mar 24, 2026
Environmentalists suffered a setback on Monday when Germany’s top appeals court threw out their cases seeking to ban Mercedes-Benz and BMW from selling new combustion-engine cars from November 2030. The federal court of justice in Karlsruhe uph...
Posted: Mar 24, 2026
South Korea’s transport ministry announced on Tuesday the recall of 58,000 Hyundai Motor Palisade hybrid sport utility vehicles nationwide over safety concerns, following a fatal accident in the United States earlier this month. Hyundai stopped...
Posted: Mar 24, 2026
Iran launched multiple waves of missiles at Israel on Tuesday, the Israeli military said, after U.S. President Donald Trump postponed the bombing of the Islamic Republic’s power plants and other energy infrastructure because of what he describe...
Posted: Mar 24, 2026
Wisedocs Launches Decision Intelligence Platform Built for the Claims Lifecycle — Helping Carriers, TPAs, and Legal Teams Close Files Faster and Reserve with Confidence. Miami, FL — Claims teams face a compounding problem: nuclear verdicts, social in...
Posted: Mar 24, 2026
The U.S. insurance industry saw $7.3 billion of adverse loss development in the other liability (occurrence) line during 2025, with more than half of the total coming from recent accident years, according to a new report. The report published by R...
Posted: Mar 24, 2026
Colleges are racing to comply with President Donald Trump’s demand for sweeping admissions data and bracing for those records to fuel a new crackdown on campus diversity efforts. They face a Wednesday deadline to submit these documents, even as...
Posted: Mar 24, 2026
New York small businesses, big businesses, rideshare companies, police and fire unions, insurers, insurance agents, truckers, bus companies, auto repair shops, university professors, district attorneys, mayors, immigrant and minority groups and other...
Posted: Mar 24, 2026
Alphabet-owned Wing plans to begin delivering packages by drone to homes in California’s San Francisco Bay Area in the coming months, it said on Monday, extending its rollout to one of its earliest testing grounds. Wing is seeking to scale R...
Posted: Mar 24, 2026
Insurance Journal’s Risky Future series is hosting the “AI Tools for Better Billing & Payments for Insurance” Demo Day, a series of free AI tool demonstrations designed exclusively for insurance carriers, retail agencies, MGAs,...
Posted: Mar 23, 2026
Wildfires, severe convective storms and floods — also known as secondary perils — accounted for a record 92% of total global natural catastrophe insured losses of US$107 billion in 2025, according to Swiss Re Institute. Wildfires set a ne...
Posted: Mar 23, 2026
Hawaii officials urged people in hard-hit areas to evacuate Saturday due to the state’s worst flooding in more than 20 years, after heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm a week ago. Muddy floodwaters …...
Posted: Mar 23, 2026
Relation Insurance Services acquired the assets of Chinook Insurance Group, LLC based in Seattle, Washington. Chinook Insurance Group focuses on commercial clients and brings specialized expertise in insurance services for the subsea and aquaculture...
Posted: Mar 23, 2026
Massive wildfires have burned vast swaths of grazing lands in Nebraska, endangering cattle producers’ plans for production increases that could help ease record-high U.S. beef prices. The loss of grasslands in the second-biggest cattle-producin...
Posted: Mar 23, 2026
When Thomas A. George and Tamika Hampton decided to defraud an auto insurer in 2019, they went big—claiming that George was so severely injured in a crash that he could no longer walk or talk, according to court documents. The …
Posted: Mar 23, 2026
The year-end 2025 carried loss reserve position for the property/casualty insurance industry is more than $20 billion redundant, according to a loss reserve analysis published this week by Assured Research. In the report titled “P&C Loss Re...
Posted: Mar 23, 2026
The Trump Organization’s lawsuit accusing Capital One Financial Corp. of political discrimination and illegally closing its accounts in 2021 was tossed out by a judge, but he said the claims can be refiled if Trump’s company can fix its &...
Posted: Mar 23, 2026
Planned Parenthood of Illinois (Planned Parenthood) violated federal law when they segregated employees by race, subjected white employees to harassment, and engaged in disparate treatment against white employees regarding terms, conditions, and priv...
Posted: Mar 23, 2026
Not too long ago, Tamala Alejandro said her backyard was lush with a vegetable garden. On the ground, she had watermelons, cantaloupes and potatoes. She loved her herb garden, and her prized possession was her beloved peach tree. But then, …
Posted: Mar 23, 2026
Chubb outlined the structure of the new $20 billion maritime reinsurance facility, created to provide marine war risk insurance for ships sailing through the Strait of Hormuz — which has been effectively closed to shipping since the start of th...
Posted: Mar 23, 2026