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FEMA Hit by Multistate Lawsuit Over Flood Insurance Rating Formula
A federal lawsuit claims FEMA failed to take into account skyrocketing flood insurance costs generated by its new rating system, Risk Rating 2.0. Ten states, along with 43 Louisiana parishes and more ...
Reinsurance Inflection Point? Reports Flag Appetite Growth, Capital Recovery
A record level of property-catastrophe reinsurance prices at June 1 followed a record level of hurricane losses last year, but a change in conditions may be on the horizon on both fronts, forecasters ...
Speeding, Distraction a Deadly Summertime Problem for Teens
Nearly half of all teen auto fatalities happen during the 100 Deadliest Days — the period between Memorial Day and Labor Day, according to a new report by Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT) that ...
Evertas to Offer Largest Crypto Insurance Policy With Coverage Up to $420M
London-based Arch Insurance International has authorized cryptocurrency insurer Evertas to increase the coverage limit for a single policy to $420 million for custodians or exchanges in what the U.S. ...
Another Soft Market Is Inevitable
In recent weeks, executives of brokers and carriers have been delivering mixed messages about conditions in the commercial insurance market. "The long curve, the larger trend, is bending in a ...
NHTSA Proposes Automatic Emergency Braking Requirements for New Vehicles
The U.S. government's auto safety agency plans to require that all new passenger cars and light trucks include potentially life-saving automatic emergency braking and meet stricter safety standards ...
200-Year Global Cyber Loss Event Estimated Up to $33.4B: Guy Carpenter
A new report released by Guy Carpenter examines the cyber reinsurance market by modeling potential global loss events. A 1-in-200-year event has the potential to produce damages between $15.6 and ...
Digital Personal Lines Claims Portals at High Risk of Identity Fraud
Identity-related fraud is putting personal lines insurers to the test. Nearly all offering digital claims portals reported, in a newly released survey, that identity fraud has a negative impact on ...