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Insurers Grapple With Uncertainty Around Catastrophic Cyber Risk

Feb 2 2022 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tvMuch uncertainty exists around catastrophic cyber threats, and for an industry so focused on analyzing risk, that’s a big challenge, experts say. Some of the recent cyber attacks on...

Washington Commissioner Adopts 3-Year Credit Scoring Ban, Proposes Transparency Rule

Feb 1 2022 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has adopted his rule banning insurers from using credit information to set auto, homeowner and renter insurance for three years.Kreidler’s rule temporarily banning...

Louisiana Commissioner: Insurers Have Paid or Reserved $10.5 Billion in Ida Claims

Feb 1 2022 // Insurers have paid or reserved $10.5 billion on all types of Hurricane Ida-related claims in Louisiana through the end of 2021, Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon said in a release Jan. 31.The Louisiana Department of...

Cyber MGA Resilience Forms Captive Insurer in Bermuda

Feb 1 2022 // Cyber insurance and security provider Resilience Cyber Insurance Solutions has created a captive reinsurance company.Through the Bermuda-based captive, Resilience will retain a share of each risk it underwrites. CJ...

Insurers Could Get Lower Rates on Liquidity with Bills in States

Feb 1 2022 // Many in the insurance industry may think of the Federal Home Loan Bank as an agency that facilitates affordable mortgages for homes.The system, founded in the waning days of the Herbert Hoover administration to support...

Insurers Deploy Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence in Fraud Fight

Jan 31 2022 // Insurers are getting a larger share of suspicious claim referrals from fraud-detection technology and are increasingly using artificial intelligence to sift through data, according to a new study by the Coalition Against...

Insurers Making Waves with Wider Use of IoT Leak, Temp Sensors

Jan 31 2022 // Wouldn’t it be nice, if, instead of relying on adjusters and restoration companies to surmise how much damage was actually caused by a water leak, an insurer could stop the leak almost before it starts.That’s...

Insurer Looks to Close Insurance Gap for Home-Based Businesses

Jan 28 2022 // It seems more and more budding entrepreneurs have followed the allure of starting a home-based business, so much so that it is estimated that half of the 30 million small businesses in the U.S. are home-based.AXIS...

Insurers Call California Climate Disclosure Bill ‘Potentially Dangerous’

Jan 27 2022 // An insurer group is unhappy with new legislation to require insurance companies operating in California to disclose investments in fossil fuel-related entities as well as the fossil fuel-related companies and projects...

Insurers Return Nearly $25 Million to Missouri Customers

Jan 27 2022 // The Missouri Department of Insurance announced that consumers received nearly $25 million from their insurance companies in 2021 thanks to the services provided by the department’s Consumer Affairs Division and...

UK Insurer First Central Weighs Sale That Could Value Business at £600M: Sources

Jan 27 2022 // British insurer First Central Group Ltd. is considering a sale that could value the business at about 600 million pounds ($800 million), people with knowledge of the matter said.First Central Group is working with Evercore...

How Insurers Can Build Operational Resilience With Low-Code Application Programs

Jan 27 2022 // The global pandemic has shown how vital it is for firms to understand the services they provide and to invest in their operational resilience. While COVID has accelerated the insurance industry’s digitalization,...

Tennessee Doc Pleads Guilty Then Sues Insurer After Clinic Burns Down

Jan 26 2022 // A Tennessee doctor who pleaded guilty to running a pill mill has now filed suit against his property insurance carrier for failing to pay after a suspicious fire destroyed his clinic.Dr. David Bruce Coffey of Oneida, in...

Weston Companies Merge to Form Cat-Focused P&C Insurer

Jan 26 2022 // Weston companies are one.Company officials recently announced that Florida-based Weston Insurance Co. and Weston Specialty Insurance Co. have merged to form Weston Property & Casualty Insurance Co. The new firm has...

World’s First Crypto Mortgage? Homeowners’ Insurers Don’t Hate It

Jan 26 2022 // If homeowners’ insurance carriers weren’t facing enough issues this year, here’s one more to think about: A Miami company is now offering cryptocurrency-based mortgages.Some insurance representatives are...

California Bill Would Require Insurers to Disclose Fossil Fuel Dealings

Jan 25 2022 // California Assemblyman Marc Levine (D-Marin County) on Tuesday introduced a bill to require insurance companies operating in California to disclose investments in fossil fuel-related entities as well as the fossil...

Insurance Companies – Heels or Heroes?

Jan 24 2022 // The insurance industry is far from the economy’s most-admired sector. A Forbes survey found insurance ranking low in popularity in the public eye. Three main reasons are responsible for insurers’ relatively...

Louisiana Homeowners Insurer Americas Placed In Receivership

Jan 24 2022 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has placed a homeowners insurance company in receivership after the insurer suffered losses from the combination of Hurricanes Laura, Delta and Zeta in 2020 and Hurricane Ida in...

West Virginia Aims To Launch Mutual Insurance Company for Mine Reclamation

Jan 24 2022 // The West Virginia Senate has passed a bill that would create a mutual insurance company dedicated to coal mine reclamation costs.Senate Bill 1, backed by Senate President Craig Blair, would help the state avoid what Blair...

Insurance Companies Sue Texas Power Grid Operator

Jan 24 2022 // More than 100 insurance companies are suing the Texas power grid operator and several power-generating companies (PGCs) over losses suffered from 2021 Winter Storm Uri, which resulted in more than 500,000 insurance claims...