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Italy to Tap Banks, Insurers for €3.5 Billion in Budget Plan

Oct 16 2024 // Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s cabinet is tapping Italy’s banks and insurers to help finance its budget, according to a new plan designed to deliver on giveaways pledged to voters.Most of the amount will be...

Coal Expansion Helps Lure Insurers Back to Australia Producer Whitehaven

Oct 11 2024 // Whitehaven Coal Ltd., one of Australia’s largest coal producers, shelved a planned special purpose vehicle originally intended to provide in-house insurance after finding external insurers willing to take on the...

Hurricane Milton Could Use Up P/C Insurers’ 2024 Catastrophe Budgets

Oct 10 2024 // S&P Global Ratings said potential losses from Hurricane Milton could fully deplete the 2024 natural catastrophe budgets for rated U.S. property/casualty insurers, affecting underwriting margins and earnings.In a report...

Update: Florida CFO Bars Insurers From Altering Adjusters’ Reports Without Explanation

Oct 10 2024 // Almost two years after a group of independent claims adjusters alleged that insurers had deceptively altered their damage estimates and low-balled policyholders, Florida’s chief financial officer has issued an...

Experts Predict Impacts of $25B+ Milton Hit to Insurers, Reinsurers

Oct 9 2024 // A wide cone of uncertainty surrounds insurance experts’ pre-landfall predictions about the state of the industry that will prevail in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, with most viewing it as a $20 billion-plus loss...

Predictive Model Delivers Insights as Insurers, Reinsurers Brace for More Civil Unrest

Oct 9 2024 // Executive Summary: Insurers and reinsurers are responding to heightened risks of civil unrest with better calculations of their probable maximum losses, careful risk pricing, clear contractual wordings, and by using new...

Why Homeowners Insurers Are Unprofitable and What To Do About It: Aon

Oct 8 2024 // A new report from insurance broker Aon reveals that the prospective return on equity (ROE) for diversified homeowners insurance carriers decreased by 100 basis points to 5.0% from last year’s ROE, despite carriers...

Auto Insurers Face Rising Repair Costs, EV and Tech Complexity in 2025: Report

Oct 7 2024 // Amid inflation and labor shortages, the growing impact of electric vehicles (EVs) and rising repair costs, insurers and repairers will have a bumpy road to navigate in the year ahead, according to CCC Intelligent Solutions...

A Better Customer Experience: What Agents Should Expect from Insurers

Oct 7 2024 // In today’s competitive insurance environment, successful independent agencies have focused on building their agency’s brand. To that end, agents must focus on working with insurance companies whose service...

Agent Satisfaction With Insurers Holds Strong; Erie Tops for Personal Lines

Oct 2 2024 // Overall agent satisfaction with insurers of both personal lines and commercial lines has held strong despite a challenging underwriting environment, says a new J.D. Power study, with commercial lines satisfaction reaching...

Global Insurers Fight London Court Battle Over Jets Seized in Russia

Oct 2 2024 // Insurers are playing “pass the liability parcel” in a desperate fight against multi-billion dollar claims over aircraft stranded in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine two years ago, lawyers for aviation...

Employer, Workers’ Comp Insurer, Survivor Join Baltimore Bridge Collapse Litigation

Oct 2 2024 // The road construction firm that employed six workers who were killed and another who was seriously injured in the collapse of Baltimore’s Key Bridge, along with its workers’ compensation carrier, have filed...

Cargo Carriers Fear Port Strike Will Paralyze Half of US Trade

Sep 30 2024 // The world’s top container carrier is urging customers to move US cargo through East and Gulf Coast ports before the planned start on Tuesday of a dockworker strike that threatens to paralyze as much as half the...

Markets/Coverages: Guernsey Insurer Paratus to Offer Renewable Power Insurance

Sep 27 2024 // Paratus Holdings Ltd., the Guernsey-based re/insurance group, announced that Paratus Renewables Insurance Ltd. has been granted regulatory approval by the Guernsey Financial Services Authority (GFSC) to provide insurance...

India Insurer Star Health Sues Telegram After Hacker Uses App’s Chatbots to Leak Data

Sep 26 2024 // Top Indian insurer Star Health has sued Telegram and a self-styled hacker after Reuters reported that the hacker was using chatbots on the messaging app to leak personal data and medical reports of policyholders.The...

Central European Insurers’ Financial Strength to Remain Solid Despite Severe Floods

Sep 25 2024 // The heavy rains and severe floods of Storm Boris, which inundated Central and Eastern Europe during the second week in September, will be the most severe flood event in about a decade, carrying an insurance price tag of an...

US Court Declines to Dismiss Mandarin Hotel COVID-19 Claim Against Insurers

Sep 25 2024 // Insurers have failed to win dismissal of a federal COVID-19 business interruption lawsuit against them by the luxury hotel chain Mandarin Oriental.Judge John P. Cronan of U.S District Court in New York found that...

Mutually Beneficial: How One Midwest Mutual Insurer Recovered From Financial Storms

Sep 24 2024 // When Iowa mutual GuideOne Insurance began assessing ways to add an infusion of capital to strengthen its balance sheet, the company went to the usual places a mutual of its size might turn to for financial...

Lloyd’s Syndicate Firm Launches Professional Liability Insurer, Based in Charlotte

Sep 23 2024 // Beat Capital Partners, a London-based incubator of underwriting franchises and subsidiary of Ambac Financial Group, said it has launched a professional liability insurance company, based in Charlotte. ProRise Insurance...

Couple Accused of Using Theater Group’s Credit Card Settles With Insurer

Sep 23 2024 // A Connecticut couple who previously lived in Tampa, Florida, has agreed to settle a subrogation lawsuit brought by Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Co., which accused the couple of using a nonprofit theater group’s...