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DIFC Court Curbs Defence-Cost Recovery in $70m Gulf Tanker Reinsurance Case
Dubai's DIFC Court of Appeal has reversed a regional market-practice finding on defence costs, ruling English law and Lo...
West Midlands Fires Expose the UK's Wildfire Pricing Gap
Six fires in one day reveal how far UK home insurers are from postcode-level wildfire modelling — and why brokers should...
Cyber Premiums Are Down 43% Since Late 2023 — Yet Claims Data Point to a Reckoning
Three years of falling cyber insurance premiums are colliding with rising ransomware severity and worsening combined rat...
Second UK Derailment in 24 Hours Puts Rail Liability Cover Under Fresh Scrutiny
A second UK passenger train derailed near Wickford within 24 hours of the Lewes crash, intensifying insurer questions ab...
RiverStone International and QBE Agree $1.6bn Legacy Reinsurance Transfer
Loss portfolio transfer agreements cover North American middle-market, workers’ compensation and European liability rese...
Korean Re First-Half Net Income Soars 77.6% on Strong Investments and Fewer Claims
Korean Re's first-half 2026 net income rose 77.6% to KRW 347.3bn, as a sharp jump in investment profit and benign large-...
Workers’ Comp Claims Still Ignore Mental Health, and Costs Follow
A Broadspire white paper argues that untreated psychosocial risks and benefit-process stress prolong workers’ comp claim...
Nationwide Agribusiness Executive Sees Low Herd Numbers and Protein Demand Reshaping Cattle Risk
A Risk & Insurance video Q&A with Nationwide's Jeremy Staun points to low herd numbers, inflation and strong protein dem...
New York Overhauls Health Insurance Dispute Rules; Key Changes Take Effect Aug. 26
DFS issued guidance implementing budget law that excludes Medicaid Managed Care from IDR, adds Empire Plan and Student E...
Insurance Agencies Turn to AI-Guided Handwritten Notes for Renewals and Claims
Vendors say robotic pens and CRM triggers can send personal notes at renewals, claims and life milestones, promising ret...
How Data and AI Are Rewiring Private Health Insurance
Rising costs, ageing populations and more demanding customers are pushing health insurers to use AI, digital care and pe...
Forecasters See 69% Chance of a Historic El Niño Event This Fall
NOAA puts the chance of a very strong 2026-27 El Niño above 90% and assigns a 69% probability to a historic October-Dece...
Auto Insurance Rates Rebound in 2026, With 32 States Projected to See Hikes
Insurify's mid-year report sees premiums rising after 2025's 6% drop, with Connecticut leading at +15%; repair costs, ha...
Everywhen Adds Parry to International Health and Benefits Team
The consultancy expands its international team to 11 with a private medical insurance specialist who has worked at Marsh...
AIG CEO: AI Data-Center Boom Is ‘Maxing Out’ P/C Insurers
Eric Andersen says AI data-center projects require construction, cyber, property and liability coverage at once — and th...
Pen Underwriting Doubles UK Property Owners Capacity to £120m in Sompo Deal
A new three-year Endurance Worldwide arrangement consolidates Pen's digital and manual property owners channels, adding ...
How Insurance Business UK Chose Its 2026 5-Star Construction Insurers
Insurance Business UK's broker-driven special report has recognised standout insurers in UK construction cover, with the...
Intact Insurance's AI Lead: Business Priorities, Not Data, Should Drive Transformation
Intact's Luca Piccolo says insurers should map AI to strategic goals, deliver returns through 'vertical stripe' projects...
Why Underwriters Say 'Yes' to Complex Risks: Trust, Preparation and Context
First Underwriting's Simon Taylor explains why underwriters back complex risks when trusted brokers do the groundwork, a...
Austrian Agency Redline Marketing Pushes Digital Funnels for Insurance Brokers
Redline Marketing promises data-driven online lead generation, automated WhatsApp pre-qualification and confirmed appoin...
All Three Slovak Health Insurers Report Half-Year Profit, Led by Dôvera
Dôvera earned €9.6m in the first half of 2026, VšZP €2.5m and Union ZP €1.3m, while all three met solvency and capital r...
Hannover Re H1 Net Income Rises 7% to €1.4bn as P&C Combined Ratio Hits 83.2%
Hannover Re lifted first-half 2026 net income 7% to €1.4bn as P&C combined ratio improved to 83.2%; full-year guidance o...
Suncorp Posts A$1.03bn Profit Despite A$254m Natural Hazard Overrun
Suncorp posted FY26 cash earnings of A$1.04bn and a 52c final dividend, but natural hazard costs ran A$254m over its all...
Washington Man Ordered to Repay $24,248 in Idaho Auto Insurance Fraud Case
Jeremy Joshua Antone pleaded guilty after claiming a 2024 collision knocked out all his teeth for an $80,000 dental insu...
Suez Canal Insurance Takes 12 Seats on Egyptian Insurance Federation Technical Committees
The insurer gains roles across reinsurance, microinsurance and claims as the federation launches new cyber and investmen...
UK Insurance's 25% Retirement Wave Puts Decades of Broker Knowledge at Risk
The CII says a quarter of the UK insurance workforce will retire within a decade. Broker leaders argue mentoring, flexib...
How Colombians Can Claim Natural Disaster Insurance After the August 10 Earthquake
Only about one in ten Colombian homes is insured against disasters. Here is what affected policyholders should do after ...
Workers' Comp Drug Screening Cuts Pharmacy Spend 18.4%, but Human Review Remains Central
A new Enlyte report puts a number on automated pharmacy screening in workers' comp; industry leaders say the technology ...
Record UK Heatwave Piles Pressure on Insurers Facing Subsidence and Wildfire Claims Surge
The UK's fourth heatwave of 2026 has triggered a Cobra emergency meeting, strained an insurance market already awash wit...
E-Scooter Injury Surge Widens UK Insurance Liability Gap to £108 Million
MIB data shows claims from e-scooter incidents have topped £108 million, with a structural legal gap leaving private rid...