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Dec 3 2025 // Three weeks after flash floods in Texas’ Hill Country killed more than 100 people, state lawmakers chastised Kerr County leaders for rejecting money a year earlier to create a warning system that could have alerted...
Oct 24 2025 // The University of Virginia has agreed to abide by White House guidance forbidding discrimination in admissions and hiring, becoming the latest campus to strike a deal with the Trump administration as the college tries to...
Aug 12 2025 // “Are you being serious?”Christopher Swift, chair and chief executive officer of The Hartford, was taken aback by a question from an analyst during the company’s second-quarter earnings call about the...
Oct 6 2025 // President Donald Trump said Friday he has personally reversed $187 million in funding cuts made by his administration for New York’s law enforcement and counterterrorism operations, following bipartisan outcry from...
Sep 23 2025 // Two mutual insurers — Northern Neck Insurance Co. and Frederick Mutual Insurance Co.— have announced they intend to affiliate, pending regulatory approval, in a move to grow across the Mid-Atlantic region.While...
Sep 10 2025 // In a three-way deal involving carriers, underwriters, holding companies and more, catastrophe-focused managing general underwriter SageSure announced it will acquire the managing general agent for Florida-based Olympus...
Oct 7 2025 // Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are rarely simple. Even in buoyant deal environments, uncertainties around valuation, regulatory approval, or contingent liabilities can derail negotiations at the eleventh hour. Over the...
Jul 2 2025 // The era of massive state budget surpluses in Texas could be coming to an end.As the last of the federal government’s COVID-19 emergency funds are spent and sales tax revenues return to historic averages after a large...
Oct 1 2025 // For dealmakers across the world, the third quarter was one of the best and one of the worst in recent history.Megadeals tallied a stunning $1.26 trillion in global mergers and acquisitions during the third quarter – up...
Aug 18 2025 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced it has closed the previously announced acquisition of U.S. insurance broker AssuredPartners, further expanding its retail middle-market property/casualty and employee benefits focus...
Nov 10 2025 // Cornell University said it reached an agreement with the White House to restore about $250 million in federal funding, becoming the latest elite school to negotiate relief in response to the Trump administration’s...
Nov 3 2025 // Tompkins Financial Corp. has closed on the sale of its wholly owned subsidiary, Tompkins Insurance Agencies, Inc. (TIA), to Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. for approximately $223 million in cash. The transaction generates a...
Sep 9 2025 // Applied Systems announced the acquisition of Cytora, a digital risk processing platform for the insurance industry, in an effort to accelerate connecting the dots within the insurance ecosystem, something Applied terms as...
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...
Aug 27 2025 // Sompo Holdings said a wholly owned subsidiary of Sompo International Holdings has an agreement in place to acquire Aspen Insurance Holdings for about $3.5 billion to further its geographical reach outside of its home...
Sep 12 2025 // A day after SageSure announced plans to acquire Florida-based Olympus Insurance, a financial rating firm said it has some concerns.KBRA, the Kroll Bond Rating Agency, issued a notice Thursday that it has placed...
Aug 4 2025 // United Risk has acquired specialized property/casualty managing general agent Verita CSG, Inc. from global risk advisor WTW and rebranded the venture as Verist LLC.Industry veteran Michael Chang will become CEO of Verist,...
Nov 13 2025 // The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has been reauthorized until the end of January 2026.With the passage of HR 5371, which ended the 43-day shutdown of the federal government, NFIP was temporarily extended until...
Nov 4 2025 // Afore Insurance Services, LLC announced its acquisition of Salzberg Insurance Agency in Norfolk, Virginia, a firm with an 87-year history of serving the Hampton Roads business community. Terms were not disclosed. Under the...
Mar 19 2025 // A former strip mall mogul was sentenced to five years in prison for orchestrating a fake WeWork Inc. takeover bid to profit from stock options he bought just before the company’s November 2023 bankruptcy...