Markets
Hyundai, Kia Urge Judge to Reject Cities TikTok-Inspired Theft Lawsuits
Korean automakers Hyundai Motor and Kia Corp. on Tuesday asked a U.S. judge to reject lawsuits filed by 17 cities for failing to install anti-theft technology in millions of their vehicles. The ...
Climate Change Causing an Insurance Crisis in Louisiana
A little over a year ago, Peter Gardner, a Louisiana developer, completed rehabbing an apartment building with 144 units and got a surprise so ugly it made him decide to move his business out of ...
Lockton Re: One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Cyber Reinsurance No Longer Works
A one-size-fits-all approach to cyber reinsurance is no longer suiting an increasingly specialized market, according to The Lockton Re Cyber Centre in a recent report titled, The All Risk Cyber (ARC) ...
Hard Market Pressure: Surplus Lines Lifting Heavy Load in Turbulent Times
As the longest hard market in memory refuses to fade, standard property/casualty carriers are not only continuing to raise prices but also reimagining their books by shedding risks they no longer ...
Security Budgets Expected to Increase as Businesses Deal With Theft, Fraud
Almost half of security chiefs at the world's biggest companies expect to increase their budgets significantly in the next year as they see economic and social unrest driving more cases of theft, ...
Wait ‘Til 2025: The Hartford Won’t See Auto Profit Next Year
Even after putting through 20 percent rate hikes over the course of this year, The Hartford needs another round of similar magnitude next year, the insurance company's leader said recently. The ...
MGAs and Fronting Companies: Exploring the New ‘Asset-Light’ Frontier
Premiums underwritten by U.S. managing general agencies not affiliated with insurance companies reached $33 billion in 2022, and fronting companies wrote another $13 billion in the same year, a new ...
Reinsurance Market Soft in 2025? Hard Market Party Still On for Now
Reinsurers are hoping the profitability party will last as reinsurance pricing and structural changes to tighten terms and conditions have increased returns to above the cost of capital for the first ...