Insurance Journal
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California has withdrawn a lawsuit against the Trump administration that sought to recover roughly $4 billion in federal funds pulled from the state’s long-delayed high-speed rail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
Reports that Howden US, part of the London-based insurance brokerage, had lured away more than 200 employees from Brown & Brown Insurance have left industry leaders worried that poaching seems to be the new business model for some companies. And...
Posted: Dec 24, 2025
Reports that Howden US, part of the London-based insurance brokerage, had lured away more than 200 employees from Brown & Brown Insurance have left industry leaders worried that poaching seems to be the new business model for some companies. And...
Posted: Dec 24, 2025
Residents of Southern California were bracing Wednesday for a powerful winter storm forecast to bring dangerous flooding as well as rock and mudslides to the region, threatening property and snarling holiday travel plans. Peak rainfall in parts of th...
Posted: Dec 24, 2025
As the effects of a hotter planet rack up more damages and health issues for people in exposed regions, the conversation around climate change is shifting from how to curb it to how to adapt to it. A new report …
Posted: Dec 24, 2025
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a challenge by the largest U.S. business lobby group to President Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, saying it fell under his broad powers to regulate immigratio...
Posted: Dec 24, 2025
Brown University’s president on Monday placed its campus police chief on leave as the Rhode Island university reviews its security policies after a gunman killed two students and injured nine others earlier this month. Questions surrounding Bro...
Posted: Dec 24, 2025
Missouri’s top prosecutor said China is suing after the state pressed federal officials for help collecting on a roughly $25 billion court judgment related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Attorney General Catherine Hanaway said in a news release that...
Posted: Dec 24, 2025
A 27-year-old crude tanker that was supposedly scrapped in 2021 is due to reach Venezuela late this week, according to ship-tracking data, in the latest example of how the South American country keeps its embattled oil industry alive. The tanker R...
Posted: Dec 24, 2025
Areawide Insurance Advisors has joined Leavitt Group Texas Select, strengthening the agency’s presence in the Bryan and College Station area with the added resources of Leavitt Group, a national brokerage. Mike Kilgore, owner of Areawide Insura...
Posted: Dec 24, 2025
One morning in mid-November, Mario Guerrero, the executive director of the South Texas Builders Association, was checking a group chat when a video of federal agents detaining people from a construction site popped up. He watched the video of Immigra...
Posted: Dec 24, 2025
An explosion at a Pennsylvania nursing home that caused the building to collapse and took the lives of two people and injured about 20 others is under investigation. The explosion occurred at Bristol Health & Rehab Center in Bristol Township R...
Posted: Dec 24, 2025
A small Mexican Navy plane transporting a young medical patient and seven others crashed Monday near Galveston, killing at least five people and setting off a search in waters along the Texas coast, officials said. Four of the people aboard …
Posted: Dec 24, 2025
U.S. Steel, a multinational steel and iron mining company, violated federal law when it failed to provide an employee with a reasonable accommodation for her pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit. Acc...
Posted: Dec 24, 2025
Georgia’s only private electric utility plans to increase power capacity by 50% after state regulators on Friday agreed 5-0 that the plan is needed to meet projected demand from data centers. It would be one of the biggest build-outs in …
Posted: Dec 24, 2025
Massachusetts regulatory officials have approved a plan of reorganizations and mergers for two domestic mutual insurers, Merrimack Mutual Fire Insurance Co. and Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Co. The plan calls for a reorganization of each mutual as...
Posted: Dec 24, 2025
The Great Bay Insurance Group, headquartered in West Atlantic City, New Jersey, named Brian S. Schleider executive vice president and chief financial officer. Schleider joined the group in March 2020 as chief financial officer. He has 35 years of ind...
Posted: Dec 24, 2025
You’re just about as likely to find a commercial P/C underwriter or actuary who is unconcerned about the increased use of AI in insurance as you are to find one that’s afraid of being replaced by AI. That’s what a …
Posted: Dec 24, 2025