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Can Insurance Carriers Stem the Bleeding from Tech Layoffs?

Apr 17 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. In January 2023 alone, Amazon laid off 18,000 people; Google laid off 12,000 people; Microsoft laid off 10,000 people; and Salesforce laid off 7,000 people. And these...

D&O 2022: Prices Down; Loss Ratios Up; Top Carriers Ranked

Apr 17 2023 // Although analysts at Fitch Ratings estimate that combined ratios for the directors and officers liability line remained below breakeven in 2022, with competition fueling price declines and the economic conditions...

Are Commercial Property Insurance Companies Dinosaurs?

Apr 17 2023 // The vast majority of commercial property, i.e., assets, are no longer physical. The majority of commercial assets are intangible. In fact, the overwhelming majority of assets owned by insurance agencies are intangible....

Federal Law Preempts Stolen Cargo Claim by Insurer Against Florida Transport Broker

Apr 14 2023 // Landstar Ranger, a transportation broker based in Jacksonville, sent a truck driver who called himself “James” to pick up cargo in Colorado for delivery to Maryland.A dispatcher authorized the pickup even...

Florida Commercial Insurer Capacity Insurance Now in Runoff, OIR Order Says

Apr 14 2023 // Less than a year after it announced it would stop writing new business in Florida, commercial carrier Capacity Insurance has been placed under administrative supervision and is now in an orderly runoff.The Florida Office...

HCI Launching New Florida HO Insurer After Go-Ahead From Regulators

Apr 13 2023 // Florida regulators have given a green light to a new homeowners insurance company, the first since state lawmakers took steps in December to rein in costly claims litigation.Tailrow Insurance Co., part of HCI Group, was...

Third Point’s Loeb Looks to Take Re/insurer SiriusPoint Private

Apr 12 2023 // Activist investor Daniel Loeb is looking to take insurance firm SiriusPoint Ltd. private, the founder of hedge fund Third Point said in a regulatory filing, sending the shares of the company up 13% in early trading on...

Dog-Related Injuries Cost Insurers More Than $1 Billion in 2022

Apr 12 2023 // Insurers paid out more than $1 billion in dog-related injury claims in 2022, a 28% increase over 2021 even though the number of claims decreased last year, according to the Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I) and...

How Insurers Can Harness the Power of AI

Apr 12 2023 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tvThere is a lot of talk about the insurance industry being slower to adopt new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, but Counterpart CEO Tanner Hackett and Socotra CEO Dan Woods both...

Court Finds Insurer’s Evidence Insufficient to Support Subrogation Suit

Apr 12 2023 // Circumstantial evidence suggesting a fire that damaged four buildings in the Queens neighborhood of New York City was caused by improper use of extension cords was not enough to allow an insurer to proceed with a...

Catastrophe Losses Drive 2021 U.S. P/C Insurer Impairments: AM Best

Apr 10 2023 // Seventeen U.S. property/casualty insurance companies became impaired in 2021, with seven of the impairments driven by catastrophe losses from hurricanes, primarily in Louisiana and Florida, according to an AM Best...

Altering Adjusters’ Reports a No-No Under Florida Insurer Accountability Bill

Apr 6 2023 // As trial lawyers and news reports around the state continue to criticize Florida lawmakers for the far-reaching tort-reform passed last month, the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee has approved a bill designed to...

Ignited by Pandemic Changes, Insurers Embraced Innovation

Apr 5 2023 // The pandemic kickstarted the new wave of accepting and using innovative systems and methods in the insurance industry. It opened eyes to the ways that innovations and technology could do more than just efficiently get the...

German Insurers Renew Cover for Blast-Damaged Nord Stream 1 Gas Pipeline

Apr 4 2023 // German insurers Allianz and Munich Re have renewed cover for the damaged Russia-controlled Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, five sources with knowledge of the matter said, indicating that its revival has not been ruled out...

P/C Carriers Losing Ground to MGAs in Talent War

Apr 3 2023 // During a webinar about an insurance industry labor market survey, an industry recruiter said insurance carriers are losing ground to managing general agents in the war for talent.“On the property and casualty side,...

Insurer Startup Trium Cyber Finds Path to Profits, With Large Business Focus

Apr 3 2023 // Trium Cyber is the industry’s first Lloyd’s-approved company to provide mono-line cyber coverage for U.S. risks.Launched in January 2023, the full stack surplus lines insurer has joined the ranks of new...

Experts Urge Empathy, Thoughtfulness for Insurers in Challenging Cyber Landscape

Apr 3 2023 // While the continuously evolving cyber threat landscape is a growing problem for insurers, experts say it’s not an insurmountable one, and empathy and thoughtfulness will be key as insurers seek to tackle...

Near $27B Underwriting Loss in 2022 Largest for U.S. P/C Insurers Since 2011

Mar 30 2023 // Key financial results for private U.S. property/casualty insurers significantly worsened in 2022 from a year earlier, according to preliminary results from global analytics provider Verisk and the American Property...

Boy Scouts of America Bankruptcy Plan Upheld Despite Insurers’ Objections

Mar 28 2023 // A federal judge on March 28 denied an appeal, largely made by insurers, to strike down the Boy Scouts of America’s reorganization plan approved last year to allow the nonprofit to settle tens of thousands of sexual...

Insurer RSA Exits UK Personal Lines Motor Market to Focus on Core Businesses

Mar 28 2023 // UK insurer RSA announced it is exiting the UK personal lines motor market to focus on its core lines.The company explained the move by saying that the personal lines motor market in the UK remains extremely competitive and...