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AIG to Acquire Renewal Rights of Everest’s Retail Commercial Biz Worth $2B
American International Group said yesterday that it has a definite agreement to acquire the renewal rights of Everest Group's retail commercial insurance business. Everest will focus on its ...
CyberCube: Insured Loss Estimate From AWS Outage Likely About $40M
Cyber analytics firm CyberCube said losses from the Amazon Web Services outage could eclipse $580 million. CyberCube late last week put out a preliminary global insured loss estimate of between $38 ...
Verisk Offers Insurers a Standardized Pet Insurance Program
Insurance data and technology firm Verisk has released a pet health insurance program offering U.S. insurers a standardized pet insurance program. Verisk's new ISO Pet Insurance Line of Business ...
GEICO Sues Medical Firms in Florida, NY Over Alleged No-Fault Auto Fraud
GEICO is taking aggressive action against medical firms in Florida and New York, accusing them of leading multimillion-dollar, no-fault auto insurance fraud schemes. In a lawsuit filed this month in ...
Global Commercial Insurance Rates Drop 4% in Q3, for 5th Quarterly Decline: Marsh
Global commercial insurance rates fell, on average, by 4 percent in the third quarter of 2025, repeating the 4 percent decline recorded in Q2 2025, according to the latest Global Insurance Market ...
Recent Years’ Commercial Auto Loss Costs Dog Selective Insurance in NJ
Lower levels of catastrophe losses more than offset impacts of prior-year reserve boosts to Selective Insurance's third-quarter and nine-month combined ratios. But behind improved underwriting ...
AWS Outage a ‘Moderate Incident,’ Another Near Miss for Insurance Industry
The recent 15-hour or so outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) again raised questions about the potential for systemic loss to the cyber insurance market, but losses from the temporary lapse in cloud ...
Progressive Now 4th Largest Global Insurer; RenRe Fastest Growing in ’24
As a group, the top 50 global property/casualty insurers grew premiums by 8.3 percent in 2024, but four of them, individually, grew by more than 20 percent, including Progressive which vaulted into ...