Commercial Lines
Roof Damage Research: Small Hail Matters
New analysis by the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) and ZestyAI, a climate and property risk analytics provider, finds property/casualty insurance carriers need to broaden ...
W.R. Berkley CEO Says Insurer Isn’t Going to Chase D&O Market ‘Down the Drain’
W.R. Berkley Corp. President and CEO Robert Berkley said the insurer is not going to follow the directors and officers market "down the drain." During a call with analysts to discuss first-quarter ...
Embroker: Business Insurance Shoppers Concerned With Startup Leadership Post-SVB Collapse
Following the closure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), VC-backed startups were increasingly looking for stronger protection in case their assets were compromised — specifically liability policies ...
Executive Viewpoint: Taking the Next Step on Cyber War Exclusions
Cyber insurance has been a success story since the late 1990s, offering companies protection for one of their leading emerging risks. In my opinion, the most important requirement to manage an ...
Russian Hackers Target Western Critical Infrastructure, UK Warns
The UK government's cyber defense agency warned on Wednesday of an emerging threat to Western critical national infrastructure posed by hackers sympathetic to Russia and its war on ...
Amazon Worker Injuries Dipped Last Year, but Higher Than 2020
Amazon's total injury rate for warehouse workers took a dip last year, but injuries were still worse than they were in 2020, according to an analysis released Wednesday by a coalition of labor ...
U.S. P/C Underwriting Profit in 2023? Not Yet, Fitch Predicts
Analysts at Fitch Ratings predict a better underwriting result for U.S. property/casualty insurers in 2023 than 2022, but the combined ratio is still going to hover above breakeven, according to ...
U.S. States Consider Ban on Cosmetics With ‘Forever Chemicals’
A growing number of state legislatures are considering bans on cosmetics and other consumer products that contain a group of synthetic, potentially harmful chemicals known as PFAS. In Vermont, the ...