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A Gas Carrier Faking Its Location Helps Russia Avoid Sanctions

Aug 5 2024 // A liquefied natural gas tanker that’s docked at a sanctioned Russian gas facility has no known insurer, is managed by a little-known Indian company and is pretending to be somewhere else.Samir Madani, co-founder of...

Insurer’s Lack of Repairs Caused Woman’s Death After Ian, Florida Lawsuit Says

Aug 5 2024 // Just as another hurricane hit Florida, the child of a central Florida woman is litigating a claim from a previous storm – Hurricane Ian in 2022. This time, though, the plaintiff claims not only breach of contract by a...

Captive Insurer Targets New York Affordable Housing Market

Aug 5 2024 // A new Vermont-based captive insurer is promising to provide insurance for New York affordable rental housing buildings at a time when advocates say coverage is difficult to afford or obtain.The Milford Street Association...

Insurers’ Losses from Hurricane Beryl Will be ‘Readily’ Absorbed

Aug 5 2024 // Insurers’ losses from Hurricane Beryl will be “low and readily absorbed” and the storm is not expected to change pricing conditions in the property/casualty and reinsurance sectors, Moody’s...

Personal Lines Insurer Adirondack Exchange Withdrawing From New York

Jul 31 2024 // The New York personal lines carrier Adirondack Insurance Exchange (AIE) is facing financial difficulties and has told its agents and customers that it is working on a transition plan for all existing policies.The insurer...

Outlooks Revised to Positive for Louisiana Workers’ Comp Insurer Stonetrust

Jul 31 2024 // AM Best revised the outlooks to positive from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings of “a-” (Excellent) of Stonetrust Commercial Insurance...

Cannabis Firm Fights Insurer’s Denial of Business Income Loss Claim Following Fire

Jul 29 2024 // A Berkshire Hathaway insurer is insisting it does not owe $1.3 million in claimed business income losses to a cannabis growing company after a building fire shuttered one of its “flowering” rooms for 68...

Niagara Falls Hopes Insurer Can Solve Mystery of Last Year’s Car Crash, Explosion

Jul 26 2024 // A police investigation into the crash and explosion that killed two people in a high-powered luxury car at a Niagara Falls border crossing last year has concluded with the crash’s cause still a mystery, authorities...

Personal Auto Driving P/C Insurers to 2024 Underwriting Profit

Jul 23 2024 // S&P Global Market Intelligence is forecasting a combined ratio of 99.2 for the U.S. P/C insurance industry overall in 2024, signifying a return to underwriting profitability for the first time since 2021.According to...

British Insurers Propose Green Infrastructure Funding Model

Jul 23 2024 // Britain’s insurers set out plans on Monday on how to channel billions of pounds freed up from their safety buffers into infrastructure such as EV charging stations to boost growth.The new Labour government in Britain...

Pennsylvania Shaved $98 Million Off Insurer Rate Requests in First Half of Year

Jul 22 2024 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department (PID) reported that it has saved consumers $98.3 million in annual auto, home and other property/casualty insurance premiums in the first six months of 2024 through its review of...

Insurers Face Business Interruption Claims After Global Tech Outage

Jul 22 2024 // Insurers could face a raft of business interruption claims after a worldwide tech outage crippled industries from travel to finance on Friday, insurance industry experts said.A software update by global cybersecurity firm...

People Moves: Ohio Bar Liability Insurance Company Names Tribble as CEO

Jul 19 2024 // Ohio Bar Liability Insurance Company announced that John R. Tribble, MBA, CPCU, CCLA will be joining the company as its next President and CEO. Tribble has held a variety of positions during the past eight years with...

Angola to Sell Stakes in Biggest Insurer, Standard Bank Unit

Jul 19 2024 // Angola will sell stakes in its largest insurer and in the local unit of Standard Bank Group Ltd. this year, as the oil-producing nation moves ahead with a privatization program to raise cash and diversify the economy.The...

Insurers Settle With Hotel in Case of Woman Videotaped in the Shower

Jul 19 2024 // Four insurance companies, unable to escape a duty to defend a New York hotel where a young woman was secretly videotaped in the shower in 2015, have reached a settlement in the case that made headlines around the...

Viewpoint: Deepfake Fraud Is On the Rise. Here’s How Insurers Can Respond

Jul 17 2024 // It is interesting—and telling—that one of the concerns around generative artificial intelligence has to this point largely revolved around copyright infringement. The most high-profile lawsuits around GenAI have so far...

Insurers Tied to Apollo, KKR Buy Mortgages Outright in New Twist

Jul 17 2024 // Yield-hungry insurance firms are adopting an unconventional strategy: they’re skipping mortgage-backed bonds and buying the underlying whole loans outright.It’s a trend that’s picked up pace over the last...

Lloyd’s Insurer AEGIS London Launches Data Science and Analytics Team

Jul 15 2024 // AEGIS London, the London-based Lloyd’s syndicate, has established a new Data Science and Analytics team to enhance underwriting capabilities and data-driven initiatives.Led by Giuseppe D’Angelo, head of Data...

US P/C Insurers Post Best Q1 Underwriting Result in 17 Years

Jul 15 2024 // Even though direct loss ratios for commercial auto and other liability lines rose in first-quarter 2024, across all lines U.S. property/casualty insurers posted a net combined ratio of 94 — the best since...

Insurers Seek Subrogation Over Ohio Train Derailment

Jul 15 2024 // Four insurance companies filed a subrogation lawsuit against Norfolk Southern in federal court, alleging the rail carrier’s negligence led to the 2023 East Palestine, Ohio train derailment and subsequent fire,...