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AM Best Calls $1.54 Billion Mapfre-Safety Marriage ‘Strategically Compelling’
Ratings analysts at AM Best see the pending acquisition of Safety Insurance Group by Mapfre as "strategically compelling" as the carriers have complementary geographic and product profiles. Last week ...
Zurich CEO Says Staff Let Go as Regulator Finma Imposes Partial Sales Ban
Zurich Insurance Group AG let go of more than 12 employees amid enforcement proceedings by the Swiss regulator Finma, Chief Executive Officer Mario Greco said. The regulator also imposed a sales ban ...
AI Finding Twice as Many Cyber Flaws in 2026 as It Did in 2025
The number of software security flaws discovered in popular technology products in 2026 is on pace to roughly double the tally of vulnerabilities that surfaced in 2025, an explosion driven by ...
Construction Jobsite Theft Nearly Doubled Between 2024 and 2025: Report
Jobsite thefts nearly doubled between 2024 and 2025, according to a recent joint industry report by jobsite security and response firms TrueLook and Noonlight. In 2025, there were 2,639 break-ins at ...
Diversity Crackdown Reverberates Throughout U.S. Boardrooms
As U.S. President Donald Trump intensifies his campaign against diversity programs, appointments of women and racial minorities to S&P 500 boards have dropped to their lowest level in more than a ...
Hawaii Raises Truck Bed-Riding Age to 16
It's common to see people riding in the beds of pickups in Hawaii, often along country highways sandwiched between towering verdant mountains and the glassy blue expanse of the Pacific. "It's a ...
Bill to Curb Staged Accidents Introduced in Senate
The industry trades have come out to support the latest effort on Capitol Hill to thwart staged accidents. Sen. Ashley Moody on July 22 introduced the Staged Accident Fraud Prevention Act. About a ...
Home Trend Report: Severity Reaches All-Time High, Frequency Declines
All Peril severity reached an all-time high in 2025, rising 25.9% from a year earlier, a new report on home insurance trends shows. LexisNexis Risk Solutions released its 2026 U.S. Home Trends ...