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Los Angeles Faces Another Day of Extreme Fire Risk as Winds Rise
Jan 14 2025 // Hot, dry winds are pummeling Los Angeles and surrounding areas of Southern California, raising wildfire risks through at least Wednesday as the region reels from blazes that have killed at least 24 people and burned...
Find Out How Salaries & Satisfaction Stack Up: Agency Salary Survey
Jan 14 2025 // We invite ALL retail agency owners, principals, producers, CSRs — the entire agency — to participate in Insurance Journal’s annual independent insurance agency salary survey. Be a part of the industry’s...
Russian Insurer Says US Sanctions Against it Increase Risk of Environmental Disaster
Jan 14 2025 // Russian insurance company Ingosstrakh said on Friday [Jan. 10] that U.S. sanctions against it would increase the risk of environmental disasters. The Biden administration on Friday imposed its broadest package of sanctions...
Russia Expands Response to Biggest Black Sea Fuel Spill in Decades
Jan 14 2025 // Russia has formed a new government commission to coordinate clean up of the biggest spill of oil products in the Black Sea in recent history as the Kremlin continues to assess the full scale of the catastrophe. Two tankers...
With Waters and Mandates Rising, HoneyQuote Adds Flood Insurance Price Tool
Jan 14 2025 // As more policyholders with Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance are statutorily required to purchase flood insurance, another insurance rate-quoting service has gotten in on the act. Officials with HoneyQuote.com...
Insured Losses From Los Angeles Wildfires Rising: $8B to $20B
Jan 9 2025 // Editor’s note: This story has been updated with new AccuWeather total loss estimates. With aerial firefighting returning as strong Southern California winds died down for a bit, damage assessments from a handful of...
Rising US Auto Insurance Rates Are Disproportionately Hurting Classic Car Owners:
Jan 8 2025 // The Meteoric Rise in U.S. Auto Insurance Rates is Being Subsidized by Collector Car Owners According to Classic & Collector Insurer OpenRoad Standard auto insurers continue their efforts to recover from the...
US Insurance Deals Outlook: More, More, More
Jan 8 2025 // In mid-December, PwC tallied a surge in M&A deals in the U.S. insurance industry in the second half of 2024, and predicted an active year in 2025 with brokerage and MGA deals leading the way. According to PwC’s...
How Will Your Insurance Organization Handle These 2025 Predictions?
Jan 8 2025 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Another year has come and gone. How’d your organization fare over the last 365 days? In many ways, 2024 was a difficult year for the insurance industry. Between...
Winter Storm Brings Heaviest Snowfall in a Decade to Central US
Jan 7 2025 // A blast of snow, ice, wind and plunging temperatures stirred up dangerous travel conditions in parts of the central U.S as a disruptive winter storm brought the possibility of the heaviest snowfall in a decade to some...
Moody’s Global P/C Outlook Now Stable Despite Past-Peak Commercial Pricing
Jan 7 2025 // Moody’s Ratings changed the sector outlook for the global property/casualty insurance industry to stable from negative last month, pointing to personal lines price hikes in the U.S. and UK as a reason for the...
MarketScout: 2024 Composite Personal Lines Rates Up 5.8%; Commercial Rates Up 3.8%
Jan 7 2025 // According to the MarketScout Market Barometer, the composite rate for U.S. personal lines increased about 5.8% in 2024 — the highest yearly jump in a dozen years. For the last quarter of 2024, the composite rate went up...
AM Best: Increasing Political, Terror Risk Could Lead to More Demand for Coverage
Jan 6 2025 // Authorities have said there is no evidence that the truck attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Day was directed by the Islamic State but the incident – as well as the same-day truck explosion outside a hotel in Las...
Global Property Catastrophe Rates-on-Line Down 6.6% During Renewals: Guy Carpenter
Jan 6 2025 // Guy Carpenter reports that average global and regional property catastrophe rates-on-line decreased during the January 2025 renewals in amounts ranging from 5.3% to 7.2%. Guy Carpenter defines rate on line (ROL) as the...
EVs, Nuclear and Forever Chemicals: Climate Predictions for 2025
Jan 3 2025 // From record solar installations to rising electric vehicle sales, the world is in many ways ramping up the fight against global warming. Yet there are coal-black swans waiting to disrupt the green transition this year....
After Steward Collapse, Massachusetts Aims to Prevent Future Health Care Failures
Jan 2 2025 // The Massachusetts Legislature approved a bill Monday aimed at closing loopholes in the state’s health care market regulatory process exposed by the collapse of Steward Health Care. The bill is also designed to...
Global Disease Resurgence in 2024 Shows Rising Health Threat
Dec 27 2024 // Some infectious diseases saw a huge surge in 2024, with the spread attributed in part to climate change, declining vaccination rates and the advent of new pathogen variants. The findings, part of a preliminary analysis by...
Big Collision Claim Trends to Watch in 2025
Dec 26 2024 // The auto insurance industry has weathered its share of storms in recent years. Despite fewer claims in early 2024, carriers still face headwinds when it comes to vehicle complexity and its effect on severity and cycle...
Losses From Crypto Hacks Jump to $2.2 Billion in 2024, Report Says
Dec 26 2024 // Funds stolen by hacking cryptocurrency platforms surged 21% from a year ago to $2.2 billion in 2024, a report from blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis showed on Thursday. The hacking amount exceeded $1 billion for the...
Losses From Crypto Hacks Jump to $2.2B in 2024, Report Says
Dec 23 2024 // Funds stolen by hacking cryptocurrency platforms surged 21% from a year ago to $2.2 billion in 2024, a report from blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis showed on Thursday. The hacking amount exceeded $1 billion for the...
