How Insurance Leaders Can Leverage AI Without Sacrificing Trust

Advances in AI, especially Gen AI and Agentic AI, are creating significant opportunities but also sharpening a critical question for insurers: just because a process can be automated, should it be? High-impact AI use cases offer the potential to reduce costs and risk; improve productivity and efficiency; and drive revenue across sales, underwriting, claims and... read more

U.S. E&S Growth Slows Again in '25; Declining Berkshire Volume Tops Leaderboard

A recent analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence reveals that the pace of growth in the U.S. excess and surplus lines market slowed to 7.8% in 2025, marking the first single-digit growth rate recorded since 2017. Previous reports from S&P GMI showed U.S. E&S direct premiums jumping... read more

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How modern technology helps carriers implement regulatory changes

Across licensing, appointments, and other compliance requirements, insurers must manage hundreds of regulatory updates each year, often with overlapping effective dates, state-by-state variation, and downstream impacts on producers and distribution partners. In many cases, those updates need to be interpreted, configured, tested, and deployed within ... read more

Insurer Nationwide Operating Income Up 37% in 2025

Insurer Nationwide finished 2025 with net operating income up 37% compared with 2024, to $4.3 billion as total sales and premiums were up 7% to a record $73.2 billion. The Columbus, Ohio-based mutual insurance company—entering its 100th year of operation in 2026—released its 2025 operating results late last week. During a year marked by wildfires... read more

Alert Fatigue Drags Down IT Production Environments, Leads to Costly Outages

A new survey on IT production environments sheds light on the growing problem of alert fatigue. Analysis found that engineers spend 40% of their time putting out fires while customers discover outages before monitoring tools catch them, according to agentic AI pioneer NeuBird AI. Current production environments outpace incident management practices built to support them,... read more

Berkshire-owned PacifiCorp Utility Ruling Win Could Reduce Oregon Wildfire Damages

An Oregon appeals court on Wednesday ruled in favor of PacifiCorp in litigation over a series of Oregon wildfires in 2020, saying a trial judge erred in letting the case against the Berkshire Hathaway-owned utility proceed as a class action. The decision by the Oregon Court of Appeals in Salem could reduce PacifiCorp's overall liability,... read more

NFL's Race-based Hiring Rule Under Scrutiny After Florida AG Says it Violates Law

The NFL's Rooney Rule has long been a topic of conversation, even debate. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is among the most recent to weigh in. He sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell threatening possible enforcement actions if the league doesn't suspend the rule, which was established in 2003, in hopes of encouraging... read more

From Static Rules to Dynamic Scalpel: How an Insurer Rewrote Its Risk Selection Playbook

Static underwriting rules weren't built for a dynamic market — and the gap ...
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How Policy-Level Precision Can Turn a Rate Reduction Into a Profitability Win

In a soft market, every carrier faces the same impossible choice: chase growth ...
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Modernization Guide for the AI Era: How Different Platform Architectures Stack Up

Is your legacy system holding back your AI ambitions? For insurance carriers, ...
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Reduce Exposure to Nuclear Verdicts with Disciplined Workforce Screening

In human services underwriting, long-tail severity often traces back to one ...
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Manual Reconciliation: A Growing Liability for Carriers

Paper payments are costing you more than you think. 500 manually-processed B2B ...
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