Recent Insurance Industry News

For Carriers, AI Can Now Mean Hyper-Personalized Customer Service, Leaders Say

• Stomach Bugs, Not Hantavirus, Are the Bigger Threat on Cruises

• Verisk Report Shows Drop in US Reconstruction Costs in 2Q

• Women’s Board Representation Slips Below 30% as Momentum Stalls

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

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

Iran’s Threats to Hormuz Undersea Cables Highlight Vulnerabilites of Data Chokepoints

• Stomach Bugs, Not Hantavirus, Are the Bigger Threat on Cruises

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

• Allianz’s PIMCO, L&G Sued in Scrap Over €1.2 Billion Brussels Tower

• Finland’s First Drone Scare Near Helsinki Disrupts Flights

• Oil Tankers Transiting Strait of Hormuz Since Start of Iran War

NH House Passes Self-Insurance for Childcare, Behavioral Health Businesses

• 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

Illinois Man Receives $300K Settlement From Dog Attack

• Walmart to Pay $230K in Illinois Disability Hiring Discrimination Settlement

• 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

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

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

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

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

• Six Arrested in Louisiana Insurance Fraud Scheme

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

Georgia Insurance Agent Kept Comp Premiums, Gave Fake COIs, Board Says

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

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

• For Carriers, AI Can Now Mean Hyper-Personalized Customer Service, Leaders Say

• Alex Murdaugh’s Murder Conviction Tossed on Clerk Interference

• South Florida Wildfires Have Burned Thousands of Acres

Lake Tahoe Power Crunch Shows AI’s Growing Energy Toll in West

• $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