All the headlines from our Trends Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 20 2026 // Texas is poised to become the largest home for data centers in the country within the next three years as artificial intelligence continues to boom, according to a report published Tuesday.Bloom Energy, a California-based...
Jan 20 2026 // With takeouts continuing at a steady pace and more carriers working the Florida property insurance market, state regulators saw fit to more than triple the size of Citizens’ Property Insurance Corp. recent rate...
Jan 15 2026 // Vehicle manufacturer Tesla has won dismissal of a product liability lawsuit claiming that a defective touchscreen in a 2021 Tesla caused an accident.Judge Nelson Roman in federal district court in New York granted Tesla...
Jan 14 2026 // A global backdrop increasingly threatened by trade disputes and inter-state conflict is how respondents in a World Economic Forum survey see things panning out in 2026.The annual poll of 1,300 leaders and experts by the...
Jan 14 2026 // Consumer acceptance of telematics technology in auto insurance is growing, creating opportunity for insurers who can cater to tech-driven drivers who crave personalized pricing and service.Today, 82% of policyholders view...
Jan 14 2026 // Last year was among the planet’s three warmest on record, the World Meteorological Organization said on Wednesday, as EU scientists also confirmed average temperatures have now exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius of global...
Jan 14 2026 // Drones struck two oil tankers in the Black Sea on Tuesday, including one chartered by U.S. oil major Chevron, the companies involved said, as they sailed toward a terminal on the Russian coast.Both were en route to the...
Jan 13 2026 // Commercial property insurer FM announced a significant increase in capacity to support its global FM Intellium clients and the data and power generation ecosystem.FM can now provide up to $5 billion in capacity for the...
Jan 13 2026 // Global insured losses from natural disasters fell to $108 billion last year, Munich Re said in a report on Tuesday.That compared with an inflation-adjusted $147 billion in 2024, the German reinsurer said, as the U.S....
Jan 12 2026 // Eliminating state income taxes sounds great to many voters, but Republicans backing the push in multiple states still face questions about whether such big tax cuts can be made without raising other taxes or sharply...
Jan 9 2026 // Almost all US power grids will lack critical spare capacity by 2030 as demand surges to supply data centers, with bottlenecks threatening to hand China an edge in the artificial-intelligence boom, according to an analyst...
Jan 8 2026 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple has approved Progressive Security Insurance Company’s request for a 6.6% average rate decrease on its over 270,000 private passenger auto insurance policyholders and...
Jan 7 2026 // The new year may mark the last time Texas farmer LG Raun plants a rice crop.“I guess I’m going to be the one that’s going to screw up the tradition of growing Raun family rice,” said the...
Jan 7 2026 // M&A activity is expected to rise among midsize companies as private equity firms become more willing to do deals, according to a Citizens Financial survey of about 400 companies.Executives at middle market companies...
Jan 6 2026 // Heavy rain, flooding, storms and hail – also known as severe convective storms (SCS) – brought below-average claims for German insurers in 2025, defying the long-term trend for such perils, given the impact of climate...
Jan 5 2026 // Insurance Journal has opened its annual Agency Salary Survey, inviting retail insurance agency professionals across the property/casualty sector to participate.The survey is open to agency owners, principals, producers,...
Jan 2 2026 // The world is now moving into the latter half of a critical decade to fight climate change. Scientists have warned that nations need to cut carbon emissions nearly 50% by 2030 to stave off 1.5C temperature rise.The world is...
Dec 31 2025 // Climate change worsened by human behavior made 2025 one of the three hottest years on record, scientists said.It was also the first time that the three-year temperature average broke through the threshold set in the 2015...
Dec 31 2025 // The average claim severity during the third quarter 2025 could turn out to be one of the highest quarterly amounts in recent history, however the quarter will produce the lowest claim volume in five years—continuing a...
Dec 31 2025 // Bourbon maker Jim Beam is halting production at one of its distilleries in Kentucky for at least a year as the whiskey industry navigates tariffs from the Trump administration and slumping demand for a product that needs...