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#1 7 Years of Double-Digit Growth; New Players on Top 25 E&S Insurers List
Sep 12 2025 // 2024 marked the 7th straight year of double-digit growth for the U.S. excess and surplus lines market, but the top 25 players no longer command 70 percent of the pie, according to a new report. AM Best’s latest...
#2 Lengthy Government Shutdown to Impact Insurers, Says AM Best
Sep 30 2025 // Unless Congress reaches a compromise on funding by midnight, there will be no budget and the government will shut down—sending out waves of implications that will disrupt the insurance industry, according to AM...
#3 Florida Adjuster Convicted for Sending Carrier Checks to His Fake Firm
Sep 23 2025 // A former staff adjuster for a large Florida insurance carrier has been found guilty of defrauding the insurer out of more than $580,000. A federal jury in Orlando last week said James Octavias Tobias Owens, 34, from the...
#4 Insurers Fighting $345M Georgia School Abuse Award, With Policy Wording at Issue
Sep 22 2025 // In one of the grimmest, longest-running and most-litigated episodes of alleged child sexual abuse at a private school, the key question in a case now before the Georgia Court of Appeals is whether insurers’ recent...
#5 Insurer Says Tech Services Firms Should Pay for Insured’s Ransomware Damages
Sep 19 2025 // ACE American Insurance Co. is suing to recover $500,000 it paid in ransomware damages to a staffing company, claiming cloud computing and cybersecurity firms contracted by its policyholder should instead be held...
#6 Two More HO Insurers Join Florida Market, One Led by Former Metromile CEO
Sep 23 2025 // Florida regulators have approved two new homeowner insurance companies, one led by a San Francisco tech entrepreneur and former head of Metromile auto insurance company. “I focus on companies that can successfully...
#7 Insurers Lose Bid to Appeal London Judgment Over Jets Lost in Russia
Sep 17 2025 // Western insurers on Tuesday lost a London High Court bid to appeal against a judgment that hands aircraft lessors $1.0 billion-plus from their war risks insurance policies to cover the loss of jets stuck in Russia since...
#8 Texas Insurer New Century Placed in Receivership and Liquidation
Sep 12 2025 // New Century Insurance Company, a property and casualty insurer licensed only in Texas, was placed in receivership receivership and ordered into liquidation by the Travis County District Court in Austin on Sept. 3,...
#9 Bankruptcy Judge Rules Church Insurers Lack Standing to Contest Abuse Claims
Sep 10 2025 // Insurers that have not indicated they will pay claims from sexual abuse survivors currently have no standing to contest certain claims as they are being considered, a federal bankruptcy judge recently ruled in a case...
#10 Apollo Seeks $10 Billion From Insurers With Complex Debt Vehicle
Sep 18 2025 // Apollo Global Management Inc. is set to use a rare structure to raise $10 billion from insurers, people with knowledge of the matter said, in the latest illustration of the increasing ties between private capital and...
#11 Flood-Focused Neptune’s IPO Joins Boom in Niche Insurer Debuts
Sep 29 2025 // Neptune Insurance Holdings Inc. is hoping its record of growth and profitability selling flood insurance policies will generate the same investor enthusiasm for its US IPO that greeted most debuts by other firms in the...
#12 Missouri to Require Insurers to Register With New Uninsured Motorist Program
Sep 12 2025 // Insurance companies licensed to write auto liability coverage in Missouri will soon need to register with the state’s new uninsured motorist program. The Missouri Insurance Verification System (MOIVS) will include...
#13 Maryland Insurers Must Disclose Use of Claims History for All P/C Lines
Sep 16 2025 // Maryland’s insurance commissioner is advising insurers that if they consider claims history in deciding whether to cancel or non-renew coverage, they must disclose this practice at the inception of a policy and at...
#14 Direct Home Insurer Kin Raises $50M in Series E Financing
Sep 8 2025 // Direct-to-consumer homeowners insurer Kin said it has raised an oversubscribed $50 million Series E financing, at a pre-money valuation of $2 billion. The digital insurer also closed on a $200 million debt facility, $145...
#15 Korean Insurer DB to Buy Fortegra for $1.65 Billion in US Foray
Sep 26 2025 // South Korea’s DB Insurance Co. agreed to buy US specialty insurer Fortegra Group for $1.65 billion, in what would be the biggest US acquisition by a non-life insurer from the country. The Seoul-based company will...
#16 Travelers: Confidence High in Guidance From Cyber Insurers; Work to Do on Take-Up
Sep 24 2025 // As cyber security threats continue to evolve, more businesses are trusting insurers to offer guidance on proactive protection and prevention. In fact, 86% of business leaders are confident in the cybersecurity guidance...
#17 [Video] Commercial Auto Insurers Wait on Impact of Litigation Reforms
Sep 19 2025 // Many commercial auto insurers are in a holding pattern, waiting to see how some states’ litigation reforms are enacted and enforced. However, there seems to be some positive signs for buyers. Insurance...
#18 China’s EV Boom Saddles its Auto Insurers With Chronic Losses
Sep 22 2025 // China’s giant electric vehicle insurance market is flailing. Losses are piling up, as companies’ risk models haven’t kept up with changes in vehicle economics and driver behaviors. The country now has...
#19 NC Judge Orders Insurers to Pay $50M in TV News Helicopter Crash Death
Sep 22 2025 // A North Carolina judge has ordered $50 million be paid to the family of a Charlotte TV station meteorologist who was killed in a helicopter crash three years ago after finding the companies that owned and operated the...
#20 Flood Insurer Neptune Shares Climb 24% After $368 Million US IPO
Oct 2 2025 // Neptune Insurance Holdings Inc. shares jumped 24% after the flood insurance company’s shareholders raised $368.4 million in a US initial public offering. Shares of the St. Petersburg, Florida-based firm closed at...
