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#1 Investigations to Legislation: Florida Lawmakers Weighing Insurance Industry Changes
Mar 6 2025 // Florida legislative leaders, facing increasing pressure from the public and the press, this week pledged to investigate property insurers’ financial structures. And bills filed before the 2025 Legislature began this...
#2 The Insurance Industry’s Talent Crunch: Attracting and Retaining Gen Z
Mar 24 2025 // The last three years have exposed a growing challenge for insurance carriers: attracting, hiring, and retaining young talent. Despite the passing of the so-called “Great Resignation,” the insurance industry...
#3 Senior Living Facilities Face Labor Shortages, Nuclear Verdicts and Changing Insurance Market
Sep 16 2024 // Continuing worker shortages, the threat of nuclear verdicts in some geographical locations, and the implementation of new technology are all shaping the property/casualty insurance market for senior living...
#4 Unite and Conquer: How the Insurance Industry Can Deflate Social Inflation
Nov 27 2024 // At one of the early meetings of American Legal Connections, Rich Henderson, a senior vice president for reinsurer TransRe, bumped into a concerned client from a hospital insurance company who brought his team members to...
#5 A Los Angeles Actuary on Lessons From the Palisades Fire
Jan 16 2025 // I watched as the skies over my home in Los Angeles turned an apocalyptic orange on January 7, 2025, as wildfires raged across the state. Among the most devastating, the Palisades Fire consumed thousands of acres, leaving a...
#6 Why Trump’s Plan to Stop Tallying Weather Losses Matters to the Insurance Industry
May 9 2025 // Extreme weather is an increasingly expensive problem in the US. Last year, fires, droughts and storms caused more than $182 billion in damages — but going forward, the federal government won’t be keeping track. The...
#7 Hard Market, High Tech: Agriculture Insurance Adapts
Mar 24 2025 // Faced with heightened climate risks and political uncertainties, insurers writing agribusiness and farm and ranch are deploying data analytics and technology as they grapple with a hard market and the need for greater...
#8 Hard Market ‘Supercycle’ Likely to Be Prolonged: Lloyd’s CEO Neal
Sep 6 2024 // Now that the market has achieved a first-half profit of £4.9 billion with a combined ratio of 83.7—its best interim results in 17 years—does this mean the hard market cycle is ending? During a media briefing to...
#9 AIG CEO Zaffino on Approach to Catastrophe Losses in Today’s Reinsurance Market
Nov 6 2024 // American International Group CEO Peter Zaffino said he expects the reinsurance market’s attachment points to remain on top of losses generated by the frequency and severity of natural catastrophes. Losses will...
#10 Insurance Industry Contemplates Knock-On Effect of Tariffs to Claims, Consumers
Apr 8 2025 // Insurance industry analysts, economists, and trade associations have continued to look at the potential effect of President Trump’s tariffs. About a month after Trump looked to impose steep tariffs on China, Mexico,...
#11 Auto Insurance Market Stays Rational Despite Improved Trends, Says Allstate
May 5 2025 // Allstate Corp. CEO Tom Wilson said he does not expect auto insurers to get more aggressive on pricing as the industry’s rate increases seem to have leveled off. For the most part, Wilson explained to analysts during...
#12 Update: Deadly Air India Crash Will Harden Aviation Reinsurance Market: GlobalData
Jun 16 2025 // The fatal crash of Air India flight AI171 on June 12, 2025 is expected to send ripple effects across the global aviation insurance market, significantly affecting insurers and reinsurers in India and globally, according to...
#13 Personal Lines Turnaround Fuels US P/C Industry Underwriting Gain
Sep 17 2024 // A turnaround in the personal lines insurance segment results was a key driver of an overall $3.8 billion profit from underwriting for the U.S. property/casualty insurance industry, according to a new report from AM...
#14 Insurance Industry Rejects Proposed Moratorium on State Artificial Intelligence Regulation
Jul 7 2025 // A proposed decade-long moratorium on state regulation of artificial intelligence has gained the attention of many, including those within the insurance industry. The 10-year prohibition of AI regulation is contained within...
#15 Fitch Expects Insurance Industry Losses of Up to $50B From Milton
Oct 11 2024 // Fitch Ratings expects Hurricane Milton to cause between $30 billion and $50 billion in insured losses to push total industry losses in 2024 above $100 billion for the fifth straight year. The range of losses expected by...
#16 Viewpoint: Strike’s Duration Will Determine Impact on P/C Insurance Industry
Oct 2 2024 // The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) went on strike on Tuesday, Oct 1. The strike is expected to affect more than 20 ports along the Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast, including the ports of New York and...
#17 5 Ways to Prepare for the End of the Hard Market
Dec 2 2024 // For a long time, the hard market has made it difficult for agents to offer their clients the coverage they want at affordable prices — assuming coverage was available at all. Now, there are signs that this is...
#18 Tariffs Will Negatively Affect Insurance Industry, Says AM Best
Mar 6 2025 // Analysts at AM Best warned that the planned imposition of U.S. tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, along with increased tariffs on China, will have a negative effect on the insurance industry—particularly...
#19 New York Proposes Plan to Stabilize Broken Taxi Insurance Market
Jan 22 2025 // New York Governor Kathy Hochul proposed measures to stabilize the city’s taxi and rideshare insurance industry, which is reeling from the insolvency of its largest provider American Transit Insurance Co. Two of the...
#20 What is Insurtech and How is it Transforming the Insurance Industry?
Mar 6 2025 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Darkhorse Insurance. This remarkable transformation is challenging the status quo and pushing the boundaries of what is possible in insurance. Insurtech is not just a buzzword; it...
