All the headlines from our Property Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 3 2024 // Discrimination, active assailants and an aging infrastructure — educational institutions today face tough liability and property risks that were uncommon in the not-too-distant past. Pair those with longtime risks...
May 30 2024 // Property-catastrophe rates saw some moderating trends during the June 1 reinsurance renewals, with average risk-adjusted rates-on-line decreasing by 5% within a typical range of -7.5% to -2.5%, according to Howden Re, the...
May 20 2024 // For Filicia Porter, the insurance bills were the final straw. They’d been climbing steeply for her assisted-living business as Florida was battered with ever more-powerful storms, and eventually, the numbers stopped...
May 16 2024 // A trial is underway in Virginia that will determine whether state law allows frozen embryos to be considered property that can be divided up and assigned a monetary value.Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Dontae Bugg...
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...
May 10 2024 // AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a+” (Excellent) of Blue Whale Re Ltd. (Blue Whale) (Burlington, VT). The outlook of these Credit...
May 8 2024 // Louisiana governor Jeff Landry signed a package of insurance reform bills Tuesday aimed at encouraging insurers to write more business in the state’s property market.The legislation, endorsed by Louisiana Insurance...
May 8 2024 // Wildfire Defense Insurance Services is offering a $20 million excess and surplus commercial property coverage for E&S risks in wildfire prone areas of California.The coverage is for total insured value up to $20...
May 3 2024 // Cracked steel columns are not “property damage,” but are building products that are not covered by a contractor’s general liability policy, the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals decided in an opinion that...
May 2 2024 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at global specialty re/insurers Canopius and MS Amlin.A summary of these new hires follows here. Canopius Hires CUO and CFO in Bermuda From Validus and AXA...
Apr 25 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.Over the last couple of years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed how everyone lives, works, and plays. More than just a trend, AI is the ability of a machine,...
Apr 24 2024 // When it comes to observations of the excess and surplus lines market, there is a difference between the momentum of liability and property lines, said W.R. Berkley CEO W. Robert Berkley, Jr.Addressing some talk that has...
Apr 24 2024 // April Hurley’s attacker entered her apartment after identifying himself as the building maintenance man — a job he should never have obtained, according to a lawsuit filed Monday that accuses the property owner and...
Apr 18 2024 // California’s already strained property insurance market is facing a new challenge as two more insurers, Tokio Marine America Insurance Co. and Trans Pacific Insurance Co., plan to withdraw from the wildfire-prone...
Apr 18 2024 // McGill Hires Milne and Cabot to US Property Team McGill and Partners, headquartered in London, appointed Duncan Milne and Cabot Lyman as partners to the firm’s U.S. property team. Milne joins the firm as a partner...
Apr 16 2024 // Inflation continues to have an effect on property exposures with sums insured for European windstorm increasing by 10.1% year-on-year at constant euro exchange rates, at similar levels to 2023, according to PERILS AG, the...
Apr 15 2024 // Britain’s homes and businesses received 4.86 billion pounds ($6.07 billion) in property insurance payouts in 2023, up 18% from a year earlier, as weather-related home claims hit a record high, the Association of...
Apr 12 2024 // kWh Analytics Inc. secured an increase in its capacity agreement with Aspen Insurance to support its property insurance offering for renewable energy projects. With this increase, kWh Analytics can underwrite up to $75...
Apr 11 2024 // Ping An Insurance (Group) Co.’s trust business delayed repayment on a property-linked investment product, showing how the financial giant’s asset-management operations are still reeling from China’s...
Apr 5 2024 // The 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck Taiwan’s east coast on April 3 caused substantial damage, particularly in Hualien with collapsed buildings and infrastructure disruptions. However, insurers are expected to...