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#1 Markets/Coverages: Driver Technologies Launches Video Telematics-Based Driver Score

Dec 7 2023 // Driver Technologies, Inc., an AI-based mobility tech company, has announced its Driver Technologies Rating Service Inc. (DTRS) is rolling out its newly launched driver score to commercial fleets and insurance partners.In a...

#2 Markets/Coverages: Howden Launches Carbon Capture and Storage Insurance Facility

Jan 29 2024 // Howden, the London-based global insurance group, announced an insurance facility that covers the leakage of carbon dioxide (CO2) from commercial-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities.The insurance facility,...

#3 Arch Insurance to Buy Allianz’s U.S. MidCorp & Entertainment Insurance Businesses

Apr 5 2024 // Arch Insurance North America, part of Bermuda’s Arch Capital Group Ltd., announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty’s US MidCorp and Entertainment businesses...

#4 Maryland Launches Programs to Help Port of Baltimore Businesses and Workers

Apr 17 2024 // Maryland Gov. Wes Moore announced last Friday the start of a program to help Port of Baltimore businesses retain employees in the aftermath of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse.The $12.5 million program aims to prevent...

#5 Markets/Coverages: Resilience Announces New Cyber Loss Prevention Tools; Amwins Forms New Transportation Entity; Aon Launches Suite of Risk Analyzer Tools

May 2 2024 // Resilience announced new integrated capabilities that enable enterprises to continuously monitor and prioritize their mitigation and transfer of cyber risk.Following the launch of Technology Errors and Omissions (E&O)...

#6 Texas Launches Compensation Program for Border Property Crime Damage

May 10 2024 // Texas landowners along the U.S.-Mexico border who have experienced damage caused by border property crime can now file for reimbursement of up to $75,000, attorney general Ken Paxton announced this week.Texas lawmakers...

#7 Ryan Specialty Announces Succession Plan: Pat Ryan to Exec Chair, Turner to Be CEO

Jul 1 2024 // Ryan Specialty Holdings, Inc. said company founder, chairman and chief executive Patrick G. Ryan will move to an executive chairman role and Timothy W. Turner will take over as will become CEO.Turner is currently president...

#8 Tech Update: WTW, Riskonnect Launch Risk Diagnostic Tool for Workers’ Comp

May 13 2024 // Insurance broker WTW has formed a partnership with Riskonnect to pilot an analytical delivery tool that connects claims and exposure data through its new offering WTW Risk IQ API (application programming interface).The...

#9 Markets/Coverages: Howden Launches 1st Carbon Credits Warranty & Indemnity Insurance Policy

Jun 24 2024 // Howden, the London-based insurance intermediary group, announced the placement of the first carbon credits warranty and indemnity (W&I) insurance policy.The W&I policy provided insurance cover on the sale of carbon...

#10 Beat Capital Partners to Launch Credit Insurance Business, Naming Pike as CEO

Apr 16 2024 // Beat Capital Partners, a London-based venture capital investor that focuses on the insurance industry, announced it is planning to launch a specialty and tech-enabled credit non-payment insurance underwriter.Called...

#11 Britam of Kenya Plans to Enter $5 Billion Congo Insurance Market

Jun 11 2024 // Britam Holdings Ltd. is hunting for opportunities to enter the massive but under-served insurance market in Democratic Republic of Congo later this year.Kenya’s biggest listed insurer by market value with operations...

#12 Markets/Coverages: CFC Launches Embedded Transaction Liability Insurance Product

Jan 23 2024 // Specialty insurance provider CFC has launched what it is calling the first ever transaction liability insurance product to be embedded into online M&A platforms in the USA.CFC is initially making its Seller Protect...

#13 Coverys Launches London Market Insurer, Approved to Write US E&S Business

Jul 2 2024 // Coverys Ltd., a UK entity in the Coverys Group of Companies, has received regulatory authority to launch a London company market insurer, effective June 26.Coverys Ltd. is part of Coverys’ dedicated London platforms...

#14 Markets/Coverages: Hartford and Coalition Announce Cyber Capacity Partnership in UK

Oct 29 2024 // The Hartford and cyber-MGA Coalition announced a strategic, long-term capacity partnership in response to growing customer and broker demand for Coalition’s active cyber insurance approach in the UK market.The new...

#15 Markets/Coverages: High-End Home Insurer Openly Enters Virginia

Jul 10 2024 // Home insurer Openly has begun offering its coverage options to independent insurance agents and their policyholders in Virginia.Already active in 23 states, the upmarket home insurer said it is launching in Virginia with a...

#16 Tech Update: Chubb and NetSPI Launch Cyber Protection Partnership

Dec 13 2023 // Chubb announced a collaboration with NetSPI, a global provider proactive security. The pairing is designed to strengthen clients’ cyber-risk profiles with enhanced attack surface management and penetration testing...

#17 Markets/Coverages: Ariel Re and Hiscox Re & ILS Launch Cyber Catastrophe Consortium

Apr 25 2024 // Re/insurer Ariel Re and Hiscox Re & ILS, the reinsurance and insurance linked securities arm of insurer Hiscox, announced the launch of CyberShock, a cyber catastrophe consortium.The CyberShock consortium is designed...

#18 Markets/Coverages: MGA OpenRoad Enters Collector Vehicle Insurance Market

May 21 2024 // Managing general agency Open Road Insurance announced its entry into the marketplace for collector vehicle auto insurance with its first license in Texas, and plans to launch in other U.S. states later this summer.National...

#19 Markets/Coverages: WTW Launches Primary Cyber, Tech E&O Facility for Int’l Clients

Feb 12 2024 // Insurance broker WTW has launched a cyber solution aimed at international clients headquartered outside of Great Britain and the United States with revenues up to US$1 billion (or the equivalent currency).The International...

#20 Markets/Coverages: E&S MGA Ledgebrook Launches Architects & Engineers Product

Jun 21 2024 // Ledgebrook, the Boston-based excess-and-surplus managing general agent, announced it will be expanding its professional lines offerings by launching an architects and engineers product with its capacity provider, the...