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U.S. East Coast Dockworkers Strike, Halting Half the Nation’s Ocean Shipping
Dockworkers on the U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast began a strike early on Tuesday, their first large-scale stoppage in nearly 50 years, halting the flow of about half the nation's ocean shipping ...
Agent Satisfaction With Insurers Holds Strong Despite Market Challenges
Overall agent satisfaction with insurers of both personal lines and commercial lines has held strong despite a challenging underwriting environment, says a new J.D. Power study, with commercial lines ...
AI Being Used to Scam Small Business Owners, Says Nationwide Survey
Just when employees have learned to ignore scammy texts and emails from the boss, along comes the next generation of impersonation using artificial intelligence. Cybercriminals increasingly use ...
AccuWeather Raises Helene Total Damage Estimates by $50B; Insured Loss Estimates Not Ready
While inland flooding complicates the picture of still-to-be-determined insured loss estimates from Hurricane Helene, a weather forecasting firm has already delivered a second estimate of total ...
Personal Auto Insurance Could Be Obsolete in 20 Years: Morningstar
Self-driving cars could make personal auto insurance largely obsolete within 20 years, according to a worst-case scenario modeled by Morningstar. A more likely, moderate scenario forecasts the line ...
Commercial Properties in Helene’s Direct Path Identified by Moody’s
A day before Hurricane Helene was forecast to make landfall on Florida's Gulf Coast, Moody's published an interactive online map revealing 161,849 commercial properties in direct path, valued at over ...
E&S Lines See Growth Driven by Admitted Markets’ Declining Capacity: Triple-I
A surge in double-digit percentage growth in the excess and surplus lines (E&S) market for the last five years, the result of solid underwriting results, continues to drive operating ...
State Farm Posts Worst HO Loss Ratio Since 2011; Peers Recover: S&P GMI
State Farm was the only one of 10 major players in the homeowners insurance market reporting a worse second-quarter loss ratio for the line than it did in 2023, according to a new analysis. The ...