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#1 US Tariffs Projected to Slow Global Economy and Insurance Premium Growth: Swiss Re
Jul 9 2025 // Global growth is slowing as US tariff policy reduces trade and heightens geopolitical uncertainty, which ultimately will lead to decelerating growth in insurance premiums, according to Swiss Re. Global GDP growth (adjusted...
#2 State Farm Implements 27% Rate Increase for Illinois Homeowners
Jul 15 2025 // State Farm is implementing a significant rate hike for Illinois homeowners, citing more frequent severe weather events and rising home replacement costs that are driving up the cost and frequency of claims. The rate hike...
#3 Insured Losses From US Hurricanes Could Rise by 50% With Global Warming
Jul 15 2025 // Insured losses from U.S. hurricanes could rise by nearly 50% under a 2°C (3.6°F) global warming scenario, according to MS Amlin, the Lloyd’s global re/insurer. A peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of...
#4 Viewpoint: Rising False Advertising Claims Reveal Major Coverage Protection Gap
Jul 9 2025 // The steady rise in false advertising claims against consumer-facing companies has exposed a major insurance protection gap. The drivers of these legal actions are many and varied and include consumers’ growing –...
#5 Viewpoint: Driverless Cars Are Changing the Future of Claims
Jul 28 2025 // In the age of a tech-fueled automotive transformation in which vehicle usage is at an all-time high, the public perception of uncertainty around driverless cars remains. As of 2025, only 13% of U.S. Consumers would trust...
#6 AM Best Revises Outlook to Negative for Texas’ Service Insurance Group
Jul 9 2025 // AM Best has revised the outlooks to negative from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a-” (Excellent) of Service Lloyds Insurance...
#7 CSU Hurricane Season Forecast Adjusted to ‘Slightly’ Above Normal
Jul 11 2025 // The team of hurricane researchers at Colorado State University shaved off a storm from its original Atlantic hurricane season forecast, and now sees a “slightly” above normal season. High levels of observed...
#8 Lemonade Posts Another Quarterly Loss but Car Growth Continues
Aug 5 2025 // Insurtech Lemonade reported a second quarter 2025 net loss of about $44 million compared with a loss of $57.2 million a year ago during the same time. Though still a loss, it was a 23% improvement from the prior year,...
#9 AI-Driven MGA ‘Augmented UW’ Launches to Serve Smart-Follow Insurance Market
Jul 10 2025 // Augmented UW Ltd., the AI-driven managing general agent, has launched in London to serve the smart-follow insurance market. The MGA was founded by Chief Executive Officer Daniel Prince, a leading executive in the London...
#10 Florida OIR Approves 31.5% ‘Catch-up’ Rate Increase for TRUE, Despite Missed Filings
Aug 1 2025 // Florida’s Office of Insurance Regulation this week approved an average 31.5% increase in homeowner rates for Trusted Resource Underwriters Exchange – one of the largest Florida rate hikes in two years – despite...
#11 Marsh McLennan Reports Q2 Organic Revenue Growth of 4%, Down From Q2 2024
Jul 17 2025 // Marsh McLennan reported consolidated revenue during the second quarter of 2025 of $7.0 billion, an increase of 12% from $6.2 billion in Q2 2024, with underlying (organic) revenue growth of 4%, compared with an increase of...
#12 Microsoft Outlook Users Experience Hourslong Outage Impacting Email
Jul 11 2025 // After Outlook users ran into issues accessing their email accounts late Wednesday and into Thursday, Microsoft says that affected systems are back online. Microsoft 365 first said that it was investigating an issue with...
#13 Many Ice Cream Producers to Phase Out Artificial Food Dyes by 2028
Jul 15 2025 // Dozens of U.S. ice cream producers are planning to remove artificial colors from their products by 2028, a dairy industry group and government officials said on Monday. The producers, which together represent more than 90%...
#14 Companies Spending Record Amounts to Protect Executives as Threats Rise
Aug 5 2025 // U.S. companies are spending record amounts to keep their executives safe in response to rising threats and the killings of two high-profile corporate officials in separate attacks in Manhattan over the last eight...
#15 The Hartford Net Income Up 35% on Premium Growth
Jul 28 2025 // Net income at The Hartford increased 35% to $990 million in the second quarter 2025 as personal lines returned to profitability compared to the same period a year ago. Q2 property/casualty written premiums increased 8%...
#16 California Workers’ Comp Rating Bureau Says Recent Rate Declines Flattened
Aug 5 2025 // Written premium in the first quarter was 4% lower than the same period in 2024, extending a trend in which written premiums in calendar years 2022 through 2024 remained relatively stable compared to large swings during the...
#17 Texas Auto Insurer for Residual Market Approved for Rate Increase
Jul 30 2025 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) said in a bulletin this month that it has approved private passenger and commercial auto rate increases for the Texas Automobile Insurance Plan Association (TAIPA), the state’s...
#18 Newsom Seeks $18B for Utilities’ Wildfire Fund as California Faces Future Blazes
Jul 31 2025 // California Gov. Gavin Newsom is circulating a legislative proposal to shore up a state fund for utilities that’s at risk of being depleted following the deadly wildfires that struck Los Angeles County in January. The...
#19 United Natural Foods Projects Up to $400 Million Sales Hit After Cyber Breach
Jul 17 2025 // Providence, Rhode Island-headquartered United Natural Foods on Wednesday flagged about $350 million to $400 million hit to its fiscal 2025 net sales from an unauthorized activity on its internal networks. The grocery...
#20 Cybersecurity Bosses Grow Increasingly Worried About AI Attacks and Misuse
Jul 17 2025 // Nearly a quarter of cybersecurity bosses said their companies have experienced an attack powered by artificial intelligence in the past year, according to a new survey in which AI risk emerged as the defining...
