All the headlines from our Market Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 3 2025 // There has been much discussion in the insurance industry about artificial intelligence (AI) and how it can take on mundane, laborious tasks and complete them in a fraction of the time it would take a human.But the...
Dec 1 2025 // Commercial lines premiums across all account sizes rose by less than 2% on average in the third quarter of 2025–a clear indication of soft market conditions across the board.That’s according to The Council of...
Nov 19 2025 // According to The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers (CIAB) quarterly survey, commercial property/casualty premiums across all account sizes in the third quarter 2025 rose by 1.6%, as premium increases in all lines...
Nov 7 2025 // For the 2025 fiscal year, the Connecticut Insurance Department (CID) collected more than $95 million in revenue that has boosted the state’s general fund.The revenue included approximately $2.2 million from insurance...
Nov 3 2025 // Although economic uncertainty could affect insurers in the near to midterm, workers’ compensation continues to be a key driver of the profitability of the entire property/casualty insurance industry even as prices...
Oct 22 2025 // The recent 15-hour or so outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) again raised questions about the potential for systemic loss to the cyber insurance market, but losses from the temporary lapse in cloud services are not likely...
Oct 16 2025 // Moment of opportunity.Clear horizons. The latest WTW Marketplace Realities report, published in early October, is heavy on descriptions of a “unique and promising” inflection point for commercial insurance...
Oct 15 2025 // A new economic impact report from the California Department of Insurance shows that insurance companies contracting with small and diverse-owned businesses contributed a total economic output of $6.7 billion to the...
Oct 9 2025 // San Francisco-based insurance AI start up FurtherAI announced a $25 million Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz to improve insurance workflows through AI.Claiming that those who run the $7 trillion insurance...
Oct 8 2025 // Although economic uncertainty could affect insurers in the near to midterm, the workers’ compensation line continues to be a key driver of the profitability of the entire property/casualty insurance industry even as...
Sep 30 2025 // Organizations representing the insurance, real estate, mortgage banking, financing, and property management industries sent a letter to Congressional leaders calling for quick action to extend the National Flood Insurance...
Sep 22 2025 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry recorded a net underwriting gain of $11.5 billion and net income of $49.1 billion for the first half of 2025, according to a new report.“The lack of any significant...
Sep 17 2025 // Marsh McLennan lost 358 employees in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, and in Washington today Michelle Sartain, who has worked at Marsh for more than 28 years, encouraged lawmakers to...
Sep 10 2025 // Pricing and returns in the reinsurance market are expected to gradually come off recent highs, with the market facing moderately weaker, but still sound, operational and business conditions in 2026.Abundant capacity and...
Sep 8 2025 // A softer reinsurance market will prevail during the Jan. 1 reinsurance renewals. The only question is how much more softening will happen and how fast, leaders of Guy Carpenter said during a recent media briefing.Laurent...
Sep 4 2025 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry recorded a net underwriting gain of $11.5 billion and net income of $49.1 billion for the first-half of 2025, according to a new report.“The lack of any significant...
Aug 11 2025 // Word on the street is that California employers should start expecting higher workers’ compensation rates.California employers have enjoyed a soft workers’ comp market for the last decade, but all indications...
Aug 4 2025 // This hard market is the longest and hardest in generations. Historically, hard markets occurred every seven years or so and lasted two to three years.Agents that sold price and represented carriers who sold price worked...
Aug 1 2025 // A buyer-friendly competitive commercial insurance market is likely to be short-lived, according to a new analysis of second-quarter 2025 market conditions from global professional services firm Aon.“This is not a...
Jul 10 2025 // Augmented UW Ltd., the AI-driven managing general agent, has launched in London to serve the smart-follow insurance market.The MGA was founded by Chief Executive Officer Daniel Prince, a leading executive in the London...