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#1 US Property Insurance Costs Hit New High as Disasters Worsen
Sep 9 2025 // The cost of property insurance in the US rose to an all time-high in the first half of the year, as homeowners faced sharp price increases in states recently affected by climate-related disasters, such as California. The...
#2 US P/C Insurance Industry First-Half Underwriting Profit Triples
Sep 4 2025 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry recorded a net underwriting gain of $11.5 billion and net income of $49.1 billion for the first-half of 2025, according to a new report. “The lack of any significant...
#3 Most Trump Tariffs Are Not Legal, US Appeals Court Rules
Sep 2 2025 // A divided U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that most of Donald Trump’s tariffs are illegal, undercutting the Republican president’s use of the levies as a key international economic policy tool. The court...
#4 US Government Says Southern California Edison Should Pay for LA Fire Costs
Sep 4 2025 // The U.S. asked a federal court to force Southern California Edison to pay for fighting a pair of wildfires that were believed to have originated from its power lines, including the Eaton Fire in January in Los Angeles...
#5 AM Best: Six-Month US P/C Underwriting Income Jumps to $11.2B
Sep 11 2025 // An early look by AM Best at the financial results of the U.S. property/casualty industry revealed insurers recorded an estimated $11.2 billion in net underwriting income in the first half of 2025. Last year after the first...
#6 US Commercial Lines Prices Increase 3.8%, Falling From Up 6% in Previous Quarters
Sep 10 2025 // U.S. commercial insurance rates increased 3.8% in the second quarter of 2025, according to the latest WTW Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey (CLIPS). WTW said the price increase has been very close to 6% over the...
#7 US Farmers Are Pulling Back on Spending in Threat to Rural Economy
Aug 29 2025 // Sunny skies and mild temperatures this week greeted the biggest US farm show of the year. The contrast couldn’t be greater with the sentiment among attendees as low crop prices and trade tariffs squeeze the...
#8 NOAA Develops Tool to Predict Hourly US Wildfire Hazards
Aug 29 2025 // Scientists at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Global Systems Laboratory said it has developed an hourly assessment of wildfire potential across the U.S. The Boulder, Colorado-based...
#9 US Political Violence Surges to Record, Bloomberg Analysis Shows
Sep 15 2025 // Political violence in a polarized US is surging, with the past five years of assassinations and attempts on the lives of politicians the highest on records dating back to the 1960s, a Bloomberg Geo-Economic analysis...
#10 Aging US Railroad Bridges Are Self-Inspected and Findings Are Kept Secret
Aug 25 2025 // The fire burned for about nine hours, billowing smoke and scorching the wooden trestles of a nearly 75-year-old railroad bridge that spans the Marys River in Corvallis, home to Oregon State University. Long after the...
#11 UK Teenager Charged by US for Role in Yearslong Hack Spree
Sep 19 2025 // The US Justice Department accused a British teenager on Thursday of engaging in a yearslong spree of cyberattacks that targeted 47 American organizations and netted more than $100 million in ransom payments. Thalha Jubair,...
#12 US Electric Car Uptake Will Slow Further on Trump Policies
Sep 9 2025 // Already sluggish adoption of electric vehicles in the US will slow even further after a $7,500 tax credit for EV buyers expires later this month. Battery-powered cars will account for half of US auto sales in 2039, five...
#13 People Moves: Lockton Promotes Rapciewicz and Cullen to Lead US Casualty
Sep 8 2025 // Brokerage Lockton announced new leadership appointments within its U.S. casualty business. Peter Rapciewicz has been named U.S. casualty leader, and Jessica Cullen appointed head of excess casualty and operations. Peter...
#14 US, Allies Step Up Fight Against North Korean Cyber Activities
Aug 29 2025 // The US, Japan and South Korea pledged to intensify efforts to block North Korea’s use of overseas IT workers to raise money for its weapons programs, warning that Pyongyang’s operatives are using increasingly...
#15 US Appeals Court Hits Pause on Challenges to SEC Climate Rule
Sep 15 2025 // A federal appeals court on Friday said it was pausing its consideration of legal challenges against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s climate regulations until the Wall Street regulator decides whether it...
#16 US Senator Cruz Proposes AI ‘Sandbox’ to Ease Regulations on Tech Companies
Sep 10 2025 // Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz introduced a bill on Wednesday that would let artificial intelligence companies apply for exemptions to federal regulation to help them experiment in developing new technology. Cruz leads...
#17 Fitch Ratings: U.S. E&S Growth Slows but Remains Strong
Sep 12 2025 // Direct written premiums saw double-digit growth for the seventh straight year for U.S. excess and surplus (E&S) insurers, according to Fitch Ratings’ latest annual property/casualty market review. Per a Fitch...
#18 US LNG Exporters Race to Tie Up Financing as Surplus Looms
Sep 11 2025 // US developers are racing to cash in on the nation’s natural-gas export boom while they still can. The massive US buildout of terminals that process and ship liquefied natural gas, or LNG, has transformed the nation...
#19 Markets/Coverages: Marsh Extends Nimbus Data Center Facility to US Projects
Sep 3 2025 // Marsh, a business of Marsh McLennan, announced the extension of its Nimbus insurance facility for the construction of large-scale data centers across the US, as well as in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. Launched in...
#20 US Treasury-Led Watchdog Dismantles Climate Advisory Panels
Sep 11 2025 // U.S. financial regulators voted on Wednesday to disband two committees charged with monitoring financial risks brought on by climate change, ending a multi-year Biden administration effort to embed climate threats into...
