Brown & Brown anticipates that the cost of the Howden-driven talent war for the full-year 2026 could hit $60 million – an increase from the $31 million it estimated last quarter. “Based on currently available information, we anticipate the full-year …
Utica National Insurance Group announced a partnership with the National Football League’s Buffalo Bills. Utica will become the “official home, auto, and business insurance partner” of the team. As the football season approaches, Utica National said it will roll out …
DoorDash Inc. is building its own delivery drones and has gained the necessary approvals to operate them commercially, the latest in its effort to delegate more orders to robots as a way of cutting delivery times. DoorDash, the largest food-delivery …
Relation Insurance Services announced their acquisition of the assets of Mid-State Insurance. The transaction went into effect on March 31, 2026; terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1986 as an independent life and health agency in Milwaukee’s …
Verisk, the data analytics and technology firm, announced it has acquired UK-based McKenzie Intelligence Services (MIS), a geospatial intelligence and event response company that specializes in global real-time catastrophe and conflict event analysis. Financial details of the transaction, which was …
Inszone Insurance Services, a national provider of commercial, personal, and benefits insurance, announced the acquisition of Progress Brokerage Group, LLC, a specialized insurance agency based in Springfield, Pennsylvania. Founded in 2013 by Ed Snow, Progress Brokerage Group has built a …
Artificial intelligence has “radically shifted” the cyber risk landscape, and the average cost of a data breach has reached a record of nearly $5 million. According to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report, cyberattackers are using AI and attacking …
Climate change made the weather that fueled Europe’s recent wildfires at least twice as likely in France and at least 20 times as likely in Spain, scientists at the World Weather Attribution group said on Friday. The global climate is …
Newswise — Nearly 6 in 10 New Jersey adults support regulating how artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots interact with users seeking mental health advice, according to a study conducted by the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling, home of the Rutgers-Eagleton …
The OpenAI models that hacked the startup Hugging Face Inc. this month also gained access to a customer account on the cloud platform Modal and used it to launch attacks, underscoring the broad scope of the incident. The agent gained …