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AccuWeather: Severe Storms in Central US Cause $80-90B in Damages, Economic Loss
Apr 7 2025 // A multiday severe weather outbreak in the central U.S. caused an estimated $80 billion to $90 billion in total damage and economic loss, according to a preliminary estimate from AccuWeather. From April 2 to April 6, a rare...
Trump’s Tariff ‘Medicine’ Engulfs Markets, US Stocks in Spin After Talk of Pause
Apr 7 2025 // resident Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff plans battered global markets again on Monday after he said foreign governments would have to pay “a lot of money” to get the levies removed, while U.S. stocks got...
Bayer Renews Bid for US Supreme Court to Curb Roundup Cases
Apr 7 2025 // Bayer said on Friday it was again petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to sharply limit legal claims that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, seeking to avoid potentially billions of dollars in damages. Bayer said in its...
US P/C Insurance Industry Income Tops $100B in 2024: Verisk, APCIA
Apr 7 2025 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry reported its first full-year underwriting gain in four years, fueling a jump in net income to $170 billion, according to a joint report from Verisk and The American Property...
AM Best: US P/C Industry in 2024 Posts First Underwriting Profit in Four Years
Apr 7 2025 // For the first time in four years, the U.S. property/casualty industry will finish a year with an underwriting profit. AM Best in a “First Look” at U.S. P/C financial results said the industry left 2024 with a...
US Property/Catastrophe Reinsurance Rates Likely to Stabilize During Midyear Renewals
Apr 7 2025 // Reinsurance renewal rates continued dropping during January renewals, but U.S. property/catastrophe reinsurance pricing is likely to stabilize during the coming midyear renewals, according to a report from Moody’s...
Risk Digitization Top Tech Priority for US Insurers
Apr 4 2025 // Risk digitization was cited as the primary technology priority for revenue growth in a recent study from insurtech Cytora. Cytora surveyed 200 senior leaders from global insurance firms and found that 76% of respondents...
Deadly Storms Bring Flooding and Destruction to Central US
Apr 3 2025 // Deadly storms and flooding rains left a path of destruction across 14 states in the US South and Midwest, knocking out power to more than 400,000 customers. Record rain fell in Memphis and eastern Missouri overnight and...
Severe Storm Threatens Central US With Heavy Rains, Tornadoes
Apr 2 2025 // Heavy rain, severe thunderstorms and the risk of tornadoes are threatening more than 40 million people from Michigan to Texas as a slow-moving cold front hovers over the region. There’s a rare high risk for damaging...
US House Democrats Open Investigation Into Kennedy Bird Flu Response
Apr 2 2025 // Democrats on the U.S. House of Representatives oversight committee opened an investigation on Tuesday into health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s handling of the federal response to bird flu, according to a letter...
People Moves: The Hartford Expands Roles of Tech Leadership; Everest Appoints Fobert to Lead US Retail Casualty
Apr 1 2025 // Shekar Pannala The Hartford of Hartford, Connecticut said Shekar Pannala was named the company’s chief information officer and leads technology, as well as cybersecurity, infrastructure and cloud modernization. Prior...
Zurich Buys Stake in UK M&A Insurer to Fuel US, Europe Expansion
Apr 1 2025 // Zurich Insurance Group has agreed to acquire a minority stake in Icen Risk, a company that specializes in insuring mergers and acquisitions. The transaction will see Zurich take a “significant minority” in...
Washington, Nevada and Oregon Saw Biggest US Vehicle Theft Drops in 2024
Mar 27 2025 // Washington, Nevada and Oregon had the biggest percentage drops in vehicle thefts in the U.S. in 2024, according to a new report that shows vehicle thefts nationally fell by 17% in 2024 from a year earlier, marking the...
Major US Bridges at High Risk of Being Struck by Ships: Johns Hopkins Researchers
Mar 26 2025 // New analysis by Johns Hopkins researchers finds some bridges are likely to sustain catastrophic hits within the next few decades Ships are highly likely to collide with major bridges across the United States, with...
UK Pledges Anti-Bribery Cooperation With French, Swiss After US Retreat
Mar 24 2025 // British, French and Swiss prosecutors agreed to form a new intelligence sharing partnership in a bid to tackle overseas corruption following the pullback of US authorities from international bribery cases. The three senior...
ZestyAI: More Than $2 Trillion in US Homes at High Risk of Wildfires
Mar 24 2025 // While Western wildfires have dominated disaster news for decades, new analysis using artificial intelligence shows millions of homes across the country—even in the swampy Southeast—are at risk for wildfires. ZestyAI...
US Commercial Lines Prices Up 5.6% With Signs of Moderation: WTW Pricing Survey Reveals
Mar 24 2025 // U.S. commercial insurance rates showed a continued upward trend, with signs of moderation in the fourth quarter of 2024, according to the latest findings from WTW’s Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey...
At a Glance: US Recreational Boating
Mar 24 2025 // There are 11.96 million registered recreational boating vessels in the U.S., with 11.1 million mechanically propelled in the U.S. Florida is the U.S. state with the highest number of registered recreational boating...
Tesla Cited by US Regulators Over Texas Worker’s Death
Mar 21 2025 // Federal regulators have cited Tesla for violating workplace safety rules in connection with the electrocution of a worker last summer at its Austin, Texas, auto-manufacturing plant. The U.S. Department of Labor confirmed...
US P/C Insurance Industry Income Tops $100B in 2024: Verisk, APCIA
Mar 21 2025 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry reported its first full-year underwriting gain in four years, fueling a jump in net income to $170 billion, according to a joint report from Verisk and The American Property...
