Recent Insurance Industry News

US Sees Air Safety Risks as Government Shutdown Hurts Flying

• CNA Net Income for Q3 Up 42% on Lower Catastrophe Losses

• People Moves: Ryan Appointed CMO of Howden US; McCrosson Joins AXA XL Reinsurance as Sr. Underwriter, US Property Treaty

• Hackers and Crime Rings Are Teaming Up to Steal Cargo, Cyber Firm Says

• 6 in 10 Construction Workers Report Anxiety, Depression in Past Year

• A Toy Maker Takes His Case Against Trump’s Tariffs to the Supreme Court

UBS Warns of Systemic Risk From Weak US Insurance Regulation

• Assailants Attack Tanker off Somalia in Suspected Pirate Strike

• Insured Losses From Hurricane Melissa Could Reach $4.2 Billion, Verisk Estimates

• Jamaica Catastrophe Bond Has Now Triggered, Government Says

• Two New Suspects Handed Preliminary Charges in Louvre Jewels Heist, Prosecutor Says

• Vietnam Flood Deaths Rise as New Storm Tracks Toward Coast

People Moves: Starkweather & Shepley Welcomes Leamy

• Connecticut Approves Workers’ Compensation Cost Decrease for 2026

• Bank Sells Tompkins Agencies to A.J. Gallagher for $223 Million

• ‘I Thought I Had Died,’ Testifies Teacher Shot by 6-Year-Old Student

• MMA Buys Collector Auto and Motorsports Agency

• Judge Dismisses Texas Challenge to New York Abortion Shield Law

Michigan Regulators to Start Enforcing 2020 Industrial Farm Pollution Law

• ReSource Pro Acquires Indiana-Based Supportive Insurance Services

• Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Still Resonates 50 Years Later

• People Moves: Encova Insurance Names Webber and Rao as VPs

• North Dakota Judge Says Greenpeace Must Pay $345M in Pipeline Lawsuit

• Detroit to Pay Nearly $6M in Death Connected to Bus Driver with Many Crashes

Monkey Escape in Mississippi Gives Glimpse Into Secret World of Animal Research

• Lawsuit Seeks to Overturn Dallas Ordinances, Including LGBTQ+ Protections

• Wildfire Forces Rural Community in Southern Texas to Evacuate

• People Moves: Texas State Office of Risk Management Names Hays as Executive Director

• Texas Backs Permian Gas-Fired Power Plant With $1.1B Loan as AI Demand Soars

• EverPeak Launches Workers’ Comp in Arkansas

Don’t Look Now, But Citizens Is No Longer the Largest Property Insurer in Florida

• Black Vultures Spreading North, Attacking and Killing Cattle

• WV OIC Accepting Input on American Modern’s 47% Auto Rate Increase Request

• North Carolina Public Adjuster Charged With Embezzling $130,000 Insurance Payment

• Alabama DOI Says Captive Moratorium Does Not Apply to Foreign RRGs

• Shaq Hacked: Shaquille O’Neal’s Custom Range Rover Stolen in Transport

California Labor Commish Fines Costco, Others $868K for Misclassifying Drivers

• Viewpoint: California Workers’ Comp Outlook And What Stakeholders Need to Know

• LP Expands into Oregon With Acquisition of Mountain West

• Nation’s Largest Fleet of Police Cybertrucks to Patrol Vegas

• San Francisco Mayor Proposes Denser Housing to Tackle Affordability Crisis

• NTSB Agrees With Requiring Inspections of 2,000 Learjets After Arizona Crash