Markets
In Bots We Trust? For Insurance?
Accenture's Michael Reilly imagines a world in which AI agents do the shopping for personal lines insurance — a world where price may no longer determine a customer's decision about which carrier's ...
Viewpoint: Reinsurance Market to Experience Further Softening, M&A on Ample Capacity
The global reinsurance market maintains a very strong capital position that has benefitted from favorable earnings in recent years, with solid underwriting profits and resilient investment returns. ...
Viewpoint: Global Reinsurance Pricing to Remain Under Pressure Through 2027
S&P Global Ratings maintains a stable view of the global reinsurance sector. Reinsurers entered the 2026 hurricane season from a position of strength, supported by record-high capital adequacy ...
What We Know About the Door Handles That Triggered China’s Record Auto Recall
Electronic door handles of the kind that are at the center of China's largest-ever vehicle recall have proliferated across the globe over the past decade, especially on electric vehicles. Tesla and ...
A Landmark Supreme Court Ruling Is Upending How America Moves Its Goods
Daniel Ilg started out in the freight brokerage industry at 14 years old, learning from his dad how to match trucking companies with loads of goods that needed to move around the country. About two ...
California Adopts Weaker Home Protection Rules as Wildfires Grow
A California agency on Wednesday approved long-delayed regulations designed to protect homes from wildfire, but they're less stringent than defenses recommended by scientists and firefighters. The ...
Severity Gap Between Repairable BEVs and ICE Vehicles Reaches Record Low
The gap in average claims severity between repairable battery electric vehicles (BEV) and internal combustion engine (ICE) automobiles hit the lowest level on record in both the U.S. and Canada, a ...
At-Bay to Be Acquired by Munich Re for $575 Million
Munich Re Group on Aug. 19 said it has agreed to acquire cyber InsurTech At-Bay Inc. for $575 million. The cyber insurance and managed detection and response (MDR) provider primarily serving small- ...