23 07, 2026

Sicily’s Cyclone Harry Tests Italian Mandatory Insurance Plan

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A cyclone that wreaked more than €1 billion ($1.14 billion) in damage along Sicily’s coast has also exposed a flaw in Italy’s push to expand mandatory insurance against natural disasters. Businesses were insured, but not for the risks they faced …

23 07, 2026

NYC Says Source of Legionnaires’ Disease Has Been Eliminated

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The New York City Health Department has reported that five people have died and seven people are currently hospitalized due to the outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease on the Upper East Side. No new cases have been reported for more than …

22 07, 2026

Luxury Homes Are Raising Risks for California FAIR Plan

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As California’s wildfire insurance crisis drives homeowners to the state’s insurer of last resort, wealthy areas such as Beverly Hills, Malibu and Bel Air make up an increasingly large portion of the liability exposure — a dynamic that experts fear …

22 07, 2026

Insurance M&A Pace Down 15% in First Half 2026: OPTIS

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Insurance agency mergers & acquisitions in the first six months of 2026 were down 15% compared with the same period last year. As it did in its first-quarter report, investment banking and financial consulting firm OPTIS Partners said a downward …

22 07, 2026

UK Lawmaker Lucy Rigby Appointed City Minister in Charge of Financial Services

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New Prime Minister Andy Burnham appointed Lucy Rigby as Britain’s City Minister on Tuesday, putting her in charge of overseeing the country’s financial services sector. Rigby was in that role under Keir Starmer’s government between September last year and May …

22 07, 2026

Google Expands in Miami After Its Billionaire Founders Buy Homes

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Alphabet Inc. has more than quadrupled its office space in Miami this year shortly after co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin bought homes in the area. Google’s parent company signed a lease this spring to expand to about 45,000 square …

22 07, 2026

Florida’s Share of Claims Lawsuits Now About Half of 2020 Numbers, Data Show

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At the height of the Florida property insurance crisis in the early 2020s, one statistic seemed to galvanize the movement for reforming the state’s insurance claims litigation statutes: Floridians had produced about 9% of all homeowners’ claims in the U.S. …

22 07, 2026

Chubb Q2 Net Income Down 3.8% on ‘Overly Soft’ Large Account, E&S Property

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Second quarter 2026 net income at insurer Chubb was down 3.8% compared to the same period in 2025 to about $2.85 billion, with property/casualty underwriting income up 18.8% to about $1.9 billion. Pretax net catastrophe losses were $475 million compared …

22 07, 2026

OpenAI Models Hacked Another Company’s Systems by Mistake

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OpenAI said its advanced artificial intelligence models inadvertently hacked Hugging Face Inc. in an “unprecedented” incident that prompted fresh calls for curbs on the technology. The ChatGPT-maker said in a blog post Tuesday that the models broke into Hugging Face’s …

22 07, 2026

Insurer Rewards Can Boost Climate Resilience Spending, Aon Says

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Insurers can drive improvements in climate resilience by rewarding companies that invest to protect their businesses, rather than simply penalizing risky assets with higher premiums, according to a senior executive at Aon Plc. “Our role as an intermediary is to …