9 07, 2025

Texas Counties Have Little Power to Stop Building in Flood-Prone Areas

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Camp Mystic, the private summer camp that now symbolizes the deadly Central Texas floods, sat on a tract of land known to be at high risk for a devastating flood. Nearly 1.3 million Texas homes are similarly situated in parts …

3 07, 2025

Insurers Race to the Starting Line in the Dawn of the AI Decision Era

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Embracing artificial intelligence in insurance is a race, but one that experts describe as a race to the starting rather than the finish line. “I think this is sort of a race to the starting line,” said Indico Data CEO …

3 07, 2025

People Moves: Liberty GTS Names Weiss Head of Americas; Arch Insurance NA Taps Kaufmann for US Marine Business; Costa to Lead Aspen Investor Relations

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Liberty GTS Names Weiss Head of Americas Liberty Global Transaction Solutions (GTS), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance headquartered in London, promoted Hilary Weiss to head of Americas. Weiss joined Liberty Mutual in 2018 as associate vice president, Americas M&A before …

3 07, 2025

Mount Everest’s Trash-Covered Slopes Are Being Cleaned by Drones

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Human waste, empty oxygen cylinders, kitchen leftovers and discarded ladders. Sherpas working on Mount Everest carry all that and more — 20 kilograms (44 pounds) per person — navigating a four-hour hike that traverses crumbling glacial ice and treacherous crevasses …

3 07, 2025

Trump Asks Supreme Court to Allow Removal of Consumer Product Safety Commissioners

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President Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to intervene in his bid to fire three Democratic Consumer Product Safety Commission members by putting on hold a judicial order calling for their reinstatement. In the latest fight …

3 07, 2025

Massachusetts High Court Orders Workers’ Comp Trust Fund Payments

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In two separate rulings, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has found that an insurer in runoff and the state’s insolvency fund were both wrongly denied certain payments they are entitled from the state’s workers’ compensation fund. The high court found …

3 07, 2025

Retailers Sue New York to Block Algorithmic Pricing Law

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New York state was sued on Wednesday by the National Retail Federation over a new law requiring retailers to tell customers when their personal data are being used to set prices, known as surveillance pricing. The world’s largest retail trade …

3 07, 2025

Reinsurance Renewal Prices Moderate as Capacity Exceeds Cedent Demand: Brokers

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Strong returns in the reinsurance sector are attracting capital and leading to favorable pricing outcomes for buyers — but underwriting discipline continues, according to renewal reports from three reinsurance brokers. Despite heavy natural catastrophe losses in the first quarter, reinsurance …

3 07, 2025

Zurich Insurance Buys Canadian Insurance Technology Firm BOXX

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Zurich Insurance Group AG agreed to buy BOXX Insurance Inc, a Canadian cyber risk management firm, marking the Swiss insurer’s latest push into the insurance technology sector. The acquisition will see BOXX becoming part of Zurich’s platforms business, Zurich Global …

3 07, 2025

Data Call: South Carolina DOI Sets August Deadline for Liability Insurance Info

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In keeping with state law, the South Carolina Department of Insurance is again asking carriers to submit extensive data on commercial liabilty and liquor liability coverage in the state. The data should be submitted by Aug. 31 and should include …