For the first time since the third quarter 2017, respondents to a recent quarterly survey said average premiums decreased across all account sizes. During the first three months of 2026, The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers (CIAB)’s market survey …
The U.K. government must provide clarity on the future of Flood Re or risk seeing its failure to do so feed through to the country’s housing market. That’s according to the Climate Change Committee, a group created back in 2008 …
Alex Murdaugh has filed a lawsuit against the court clerk whose behavior during his murder trial led the South Carolina Supreme Court to overturn his convictions and life sentence for the deaths of his wife and son. The suit filed …
Barney Frank, the quick-witted Democratic congressman who found himself on the front lines of the government’s rescue of the American financial system in 2007 and 2008, has died. He was 86. He died on Tuesday at his home in Ogunquit, …
A U.S. jury found Takeda Pharmaceutical liable for causing about $885 million in damages by delaying a generic version of its constipation drug Amitiza through an anticompetitive scheme. Jurors in federal court in Boston, following a five-week trial, sided with …
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced the launch of two new casualty insurance policies in Switzerland: one multinational and another for domestic risks, both tailored for large corporate and upper middle market commercial and industrial organizations in Switzerland. The new …
Liberty Taps Kooijman as General Manager, Insurance, Netherlands, Belgium, Nordics Liberty Specialty Markets, part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, announced the appointment of Monique Kooijman as general manager for Netherlands, Belgium and the Nordics, subject to regulatory approval. Kooijman will …
Scott Irlbeck crouched in a field of stunted wheat plants in a parched stretch of West Texas and slipped his hand into a crack wide enough to swallow it. Last autumn, Irlbeck planted a crop that barely grew because rain …
Sands Point Risk, a multi-program managing general agency platform, has acquired Launch Environmental Underwriters, a provider of environmental general liability insurance. Jersey City, New Jersey-based Launch focuses on complex risks across the energy, infrastructure, construction, chemical, mergers and acquisition, and …
The JPMorgan Chase & Co. banker named in a graphic sexual harassment suit that went viral last month hit back at her accuser with a defamation counterclaim, calling his allegations “entirely false” and “malicious.” Lorna Hajdini on Tuesday night countersued …