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#1 Trump’s Trade War Is Making US Farmers Anxious About Demand Risk
Apr 11 2025 // Josh Yoder, a fifth-generation farmer in Ohio, has been watching gyrations in the crop markets as Donald Trump moved to dramatically escalate his trade war with China this week. Yoder is still an ardent Trump supporter,...
#2 Tariffs Threaten to Push US Home Insurance Rates Even Higher
Apr 9 2025 // With the Los Angeles fires in January and last week’s severe storms that brought flooding and tornadoes to the Midwest, extreme weather is already battering US homes in 2025. Homeowners should expect their insurance...
#3 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...
#4 Global Q1 Commercial Insurance Rates Drop 3%, but US Casualty Bucks the Trend
Apr 24 2025 // Global commercial insurance rates fell 3%, on average, in the first quarter of 2025 following a 2% decline in Q4 2024, according to the Global Insurance Market Index published quarterly by insurance broker Marsh. The Q1...
#5 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...
#6 Increased Writings in Homeowners Adds to US Surplus Lines Growth
Apr 29 2025 // Increasing movement of homeowners insurance risk to the U.S. surplus lines market has continued to contribute to growth for nonadmitted insurers. According to a report from AM Best, surplus homeowners direct premiums...
#7 Texas Is Ground Zero for the US Battery Boom
Apr 10 2025 // “Drill, baby, drill” may be Texas’s unofficial motto, but “store, baby, store” is becoming more accurate. The Lone Star State may be the heart of America’s oil and gas map, but...
#8 US Excess & Surplus Lines Boost London Market Re/Insurers’ Topline Growth
Apr 16 2025 // The U.S. excess and surplus (E&S) lines market continues to offer profitable growth opportunities for insurers and reinsurers in the London market – which could help counteract some possible headwinds, according to a...
#9 People Moves: Allianz Commercial Expands US Construction With Hires; IMA Hires Lockton’s Wargo to Lead Property Team
Apr 9 2025 // Kristen Hoskinson Allianz Commercial, headquartered in New York City, expanded its U.S. construction team with five new hires who will join Allianz Commercial’s Master Builder’s Risk team by mid-April. Kristen...
#10 Hackers Spied on 100 US Bank Regulators’ Emails for Over a Year
Apr 9 2025 // Hackers intercepted about 103 bank regulators’ emails for more than a year, gaining access to highly sensitive financial information, according to two people familiar with the matter and a draft letter to Congress...
#11 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...
#12 FBI Raided the Wrong House. Now the US Supreme Court Will Hear Their Lawsuit
Apr 29 2025 // Before dawn on Oct. 18, 2017, FBI agents broke down the front door of Trina Martin’s Atlanta home, stormed into her bedroom and pointed guns at her and her then-boyfriend as her 7-year-old son screamed for his mom...
#13 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...
#14 Wife of Former US Sen. Bob Menendez Convicted in Bribery Scheme
Apr 24 2025 // Nadine Menendez, the wife of former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, was convicted of teaming up with her husband to accept bribes of cash, gold bars and a luxury car from three New Jersey men looking for help with their business...
#15 2024 Saw Second Most Tornadoes on Record in the US
Apr 15 2025 // New analysis indicates there were 1796 confirmed tornadoes in 2024, the second highest on record, according to NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center. The busy tornado season was driven by an active April and May in the...
#16 UK’s Admiral Group to Sell Its US Insurer Elephant to J.C. Flowers
Apr 22 2025 // United Kingdom’s Admiral Group has agreed to sell its U.S. insurance business — Elephant Insurance Co. and Elephant Insurance Services— to the private investment firm J.C. Flowers & Co. for an undisclosed...
#17 Severe Weather Outbreak Threatens Central US With Tornadoes and Large Hail
Apr 28 2025 // A multi-day severe weather outbreak is expected to bring heavy thunderstorms, large hail and the threat of tornadoes across the central U.S. Parts of the Upper Midwest – particularly southern and western Minnesota and...
#18 People Moves: Zurich Hires Sullivan From CNA for US Middle Market Head of Tech; IMA Hires Crochet as National Energy Practice Leader
Apr 16 2025 // Jeannie Sullivan Zurich North America, headquartered in Schaumberg, Illinois, hired Jeannie Sullivan as head of technology for its U.S. middle market team. She will report to Stan Bernard, head of industry practices for...
#19 Japanese Insurer MS&AD Plans to Invest as Much as $5 Billion to Double US Profits
Apr 22 2025 // MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings Inc. plans to invest as much as about ¥700 billion ($5 billion) to expand in the North American market, to meet its goal of doubling operating profits in the region, according to its...
#20 Forecast Calls for Wildfires to Burn More Land Across US This Year
Apr 25 2025 // A long-range forecast predicts wildfires will burn more land across the U.S. this year, with a potentially active spring in places and a build up into summer. An AccuWeather forecast out on Wednesday calls for 7 to 9...
