Swiss Re Shares Drop After New Profit Target Falls Short of Expectations
Swiss Re shares dropped 7.5 percent on Friday after the world's second-largest reinsurer announced a new profit target that fell short of market expectations.
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‘Dream Is in Sight:’ Chamber, Reinsurers, Insurers Urge Florida to Stay the Course
The message from the Florida Chamber of Commerce Insurance Summit was loud and clear: Don't mess with legislative changes that have all but restored the state's property insurance market. And while ...
New York Times Sues Perplexity AI for ‘Illegal’ Copying of Content
The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI on Friday, claiming that the artificial intelligence startup was copying, distributing and displaying millions of its ...
Foundation Firmed: AM Best Switches View of U.S. Homeowners Insurers to Stable
Insurers of U.S. homes have improved rate adequacy and catastrophe risk management, modified coverage, and benefitted from a softening reinsurance market to earn a change in AM Best's outlook for the ...
How ‘Super Roofs’ Reward Insurers, Cat Bond Investors and Homeowners
As the Trump administration stalls federal funding for projects intended to make states more resilient to climate change and private insurers decline to cover properties in high-risk zones, North ...
6 Warning Signs for Insurers: How to Anticipate, Respond to Pipe Freezes
The polar vortex and related harsh weather conditions in many parts of the U.S. last winter led to elevated risks of pipe-freeze incidents from the Northeast and Midwest all the way down through the ...
How E-Deliveries Are Fueling More Crashes, Pollution and Worker Injuries
Rapidly growing e-commerce and last-mile delivery services have contributed to significant increases in crashes, traffic, workplace injuries and air pollution, according to a report from New York ...
U.S. E&S Outlook No Longer Positive: AM Best
AM Best has revised its market segment outlook on the U.S. excess and surplus lines segment to stable from positive, the rating agency announced in mid-November. The change comes as rates soften and ...
‘Clear Soft Market Conditions’ for Commercial P/C Lines in Q3, Says CIAB
According to The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers (CIAB) quarterly survey, commercial property/casualty premiums across all account sizes in the third quarter of 2025 rose by 1.6 percent, as ...