Recent Insurance Industry News

Verisk Report Shows Drop in US Reconstruction Costs in 2Q

• ‘Designed To Last’: American Family Launches Reality Competition Series on Hulu

• El Niño Odds Rise as Storm and Crop Threats Intensify Globally

• The Big Dog Is Off the Tech Porch: State Farm as ‘Next Gen Good Neighbor’

• NCCI: Workers’ Comp Calendar Year Combined Ratio at 91; Accident Year CR 102

• Judge Says Cannot ‘Rubber Stamp’ $1.5 Million Musk-SEC Deal

Bank of Canada Sees AI as Possible Boost to Country’s Ailing Productivity

• US Efforts to End Iran War Stumble as Ship Seized Near UAE

• Viewpoint: Why Speedy Payouts Matter in EU Plan to Close Insurance Protection Gap

• From AirTags to AI Nudification: The Growing Toolkit of Technology-Facilitated Abuse

• Odey Settles Sexual Assault Cases Ahead of London Trial

• Brookfield Merges Insurance Unit as Flatt’s Overhaul Takes Hold

Timeline of Baltimore’s Key Bridge Collapse That Killed 6 People

• Chicago Museum’s ‘Knight Rider’ Car Ticketed for Speeding in NY Hasn’t Moved in Years

• New York Hopes Captives Can Lower Affordable Housing Insurance Costs

• Appeals Court Spares Trump From Paying $83M Defamation Award for Now

• NYU Hospital Subpoenaed for Information on Gender-Affirming Care for Children

• AM Best Downgrades Credit Ratings of Arrow Mutual of Massachusetts

Illinois Man Receives $300K Settlement From Dog Attack

• Howden Acquires Indiana-Based Cybeta

• People Moves: Alliant Insurance Services Adds John Montague to Midwest Benefits Team

• Billionaire Boehly’s Allies Donated Heavily to Kansas Insurance Regulator

• Ohio Man Sued for Alleged Model Train Scam

• TWFG Acquires Fortress Insurance Services

City of Austin to Pay $35M to Men Wrongly Accused in Yogurt Shop Murders

• Dallas Exurb Hits Pause on Data Centers in Rare Texas Rebuke

• Louisiana Officials Agree to $4.8M Settlement in Death of Black Motorist

• New Law Requires Insurance Rate Filings in Oklahoma to Undergo Review Process

• Six Arrested in Louisiana Insurance Fraud Scheme

• Corpus Christi Residents and Businesses May Have to Cut Water Use by 25%

Tennessee Solar Ranch Aims to Prove Grazing Under the Panels is Sunny Side Up

• Dream Finders Homes Offers $704 Million to Buy Rival Beazer

• Alex Murdaugh’s Murder Conviction Tossed on Clerk Interference

• South Florida Wildfires Have Burned Thousands of Acres

• Florida’s Ailing $6 Billion Rail Line Has Debt Vultures Circling

• Shepherd Insurance Expands Florida Footprint With Arnold Agency Acquisition

$1.3 Billion in Medicaid Money to California Deferred Over Suspicions of Fraud

• LP Acquires Benefits Consulting Practice of Van Noy Consulting Group in Nevada

• People Moves: Premier Group Insurance Announces Leadership Transition

• Denver Airport Security Missed Trespasser Killed By Plane on Runway

• Newsom’s California Budget Bolstered by Extra Cash from AI Boom

• California Attorney General Looking into FIFA World Cup Ticketing Practices