All the headlines from our Market Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 18 2022 // Things are moving fast in Florida’s distressed property insurance market.Just days after St. Johns Insurance Co. announced it would stop writing new homeowner business in Florida, the Demotech rating agency withdrew...
Feb 17 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI), Marsh and MS Amlin Underwriting Ltd.A summary of these new hires follows here. BHSI Promotes...
Feb 9 2022 // The man who served as the director of insurance for the Consumer Federation of America for nearly three decades is retiring.The official statement from the CFA describes J. Robert “Bob” Hunter as the...
Feb 7 2022 // Direct-premium production for the U.S. P/C industry through the third quarter 2021 improved as insurers increased rates, but adverse trends in loss costs for many lines of business continue to dampen profitability.Through...
Jan 31 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.Compared to 20 years ago, modern business professionals are living the good life. Advancements in cloud computing and digital storage capabilities have allowed...
Jan 25 2022 // Direct-premium production for the U.S. P/C industry through the third quarter 2021 improved as insurers increased rates, but adverse trends in loss costs for many lines of business continue to dampen profitability.Through...
Jan 24 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.Supply chain isn’t a topic that sees the headlines a whole lot. That is, unless you’ve been reading the headlines recently. For something that’s so...
Jan 20 2022 // Commercial motor insurer Zego announced a European expansion plan by launching in the Netherlands and ramping up operations in France, while aiming to identify other target territories during 2022.The company, which became...
Jan 13 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.It’s starting to feel like a New Year’s tradition. But we’re not talking about the ball drop or kissing your beau at midnight. For the past several...
Jan 12 2022 // Daniele Presutti, Accenture’s Insurance lead in Europe, and Silvia Milián, Accenture’s Insurance lead for strategy and consulting in Iberia discuss how the submissions to 2021’s Efma-Accenture Innovation...
Jan 5 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.As if 2020 didn’t test the insurance industry enough, 2021 has proved to be yet another challenging year for property & casualty insurers. We saw significant...
Jan 3 2022 // In an effort to increase awareness of the need for further reforms that could improve the state’s distressed property insurance market, an independent agents’ organization has released a set of infographics for...
Dec 27 2021 // A 2012 insurance industry proposal to make tornado shelters part of the building code for large commercial and residential buildings was blocked by construction and building management interests, the New York Times...
Dec 21 2021 // This post is part of a series sponsored by TransUnion.Social and regulatory attention has been using fairness and equity as a lens to evaluate the outcomes of existing processes like insurance underwriting. For example, a...
Dec 20 2021 // Insurance and fundraising are both people-facing endeavors, so one would think that COVID-19, with all of its lockdowns and distancing, would have killed the giving spirit for a charitable group like the National Insurance...
Dec 8 2021 // E-commerce pet products company Chewy plans to begin selling pet health insurance plans from pet insurer Trupanion to its 20 million customer base. The insurance will be sold under the Chewy Health brand that includes...
Dec 8 2021 // Independent personal lines insurance agency, Goosehead Insurance Inc., has enter into the life insurance space through an alliance with insurtech Ethos Life (Ethos). The company announced today that through...
Dec 7 2021 // Trusted by the fastest growing companies in insurance, AgentSync is the first insurtech SaaS unicorn focused on building infrastructure for the $1.3T US insurance market.New funds will support customer-driven demand and...
Nov 16 2021 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.The summer months can bring some much-needed time off for many in the insurance industry. But one thing that shouldn’t be taking a break is your emphasis on...
Nov 12 2021 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.The insurance industry is notoriously behind on the digital uptake. But research suggests that following the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly nine in ten insurance executives...