National News for October 2025
- PHLY Makes Largest Acquisition in Its History With Collector Car Business Expansion
- Aon’s Q3 Organic Growth of 7% Outperforms Expectations
- Deal for Nuclear Reactors Raises Safety Concerns
- Don’t Forget the Front Line: Why Insurers Need to Research the Agent Experience
- People Moves: Tiesi Joins Canopius as US Head of Financial Lines
- Hacking Firm Boss Pleads Guilty to Stealing, Selling Secrets
- Universal Music Settles Lawsuit With AI Startup Udio
- Insurers Begin Restricting Privacy Coverage in Response to Evolving Risk
- The Hanover Reports 75% Growth in Q3 Net Income
- AIG Joins Private Equity Firm Onex to Acquire Re/Insurer Convex Group
- GEICO, Daimler Launch Connected Insurance Program for Truck Fleets
- Microsoft Azure’s Services Restored After Global Outage
- OpenAI Sued for Trademark Infringement Over Sora’s ‘Cameo’ Feature
- Hacking Firm Boss Pleads Guilty to Stealing, Selling Secrets
- FIO: Insurer Litigation Expenses Dipped Slightly Between 2023 and 2024
- Verisk Misses Quarterly Revenue Estimates, Trims 2025 Revenue Forecast
- US Appeals Court Revives $2.5 Billion Opioid Lawsuit in West Virginia
- People Moves: Tassone Jr. Promoted to AM Specialty CEO; Canopius Names Leftwich US Head of Strategy; FM Hires Erbig as CFO
- Progressive Now 4th Largest Global Insurer; RenRe Fastest Growing in ’24
- Mondelez Defeats Greenwashing Lawsuit Over ‘Climate Neutral’ Clif Bar Claim
- ‘Catastrophic’ Hack Underscores Public Defender Security Gaps
- Federal Judge Decertifies Apple App Store Class Action
- Brown & Brown Reports Strong Q3 Revenue Growth of 35.4%
- The Hartford Q3 Net Income Up 41%
- J&J Talc Cancer Suits Rise 17% After Failed Settlement Push
- Wright Flood’s Buy of Poulton Associates to Create Largest Flood Insurance Provider
- PepsiCo Resolves Lawsuit Over Gatorade Health Bar Claims
- AIG to Acquire Renewal Rights of Everest’s Retail Commercial Business Worth $2B
- NHTSA to Expand Probe Into 286,000 GM Vehicles Over Possible Engine Failure
- Alaska Airlines Vows IT Upgrades After Outage Forces 400 Flight Cancellations
- JPMorgan Chase Fights Paying $115M Legal Tab for Convicted Fraudsters
- CyberCube: Insured Loss Estimate From AWS Outage Likely About $40M
- Hacking Lab Boss Charged With Seeking to Sell Secrets
- Consumers Seek $2.36B From Google After Privacy Verdict
- Bishop Street Underwriters Launches MGA Incubator
- Rivian Agrees to Pay $250 Million to Settle IPO Fraud Lawsuit
- People Moves: CRC Group Names New Team Members in Specialty Division; Howden US Appoints Hanback EVP
- Growth Momentum Continues for Program Business: TMPAA
- Trucking App Trucker Path Launches Retail Insurance Agency
- Conservative Activist Sues Google Over AI-Generated Statements
- Disaster Relief Fund Hits Critical Low as Shutdown Endures
- Industry Groups Applaud Bill to Treat Forests, Mitigate Wildfire Risk
- Viewpoint: Insurance and AI – A Double-Edged Sword
- Markets/Coverages: Verisk Offers Insurers a Standardized Pet Insurance Program
- Reddit Sues Perplexity, Others Over Alleged Data Scraping
- Rotting Apple: Berkley Explains Property Market, Company Appetite
- Grounded Paychecks: 60,000 Air Safety Workers Tighten Belts as US Shutdown Drags
- US Saw Record $101 Billion in Weather Losses Through June
- AWS Outage a ‘Moderate Incident,’ Another Near Miss for Insurance Industry
- People Moves: Novatae Risk Group Names Jenkins COO
- Best Agency to Work For – Overall Winner: Robertson Ryan Insurance
- Amazon Cloud Reputation Takes Hit After Outage
- Chubb Books Record P/C Underwriting Income, Combined Ratio in Q3
- State Officials Say New Rules, Delays for FEMA Grants Put Disaster Response at Risk
- Amazon Says All Cloud Services Restored After 15-Hour Outage
- Insurance Agency M&A Picks Up in Q3 but Down for the Year: OPTIS
- ‘Massive Legal Siege’ Against Social Media Companies Looms
- Shutdown Stalemate Brings IPO Holdouts Off the Sidelines
- WR Berkley Q3 Net Income Up Near 40%
- NHTSA Investigates Waymo Robotaxis Over Safety Around School Buses
- Progressive Records $2.6B in Q3 Income After Refunds for Excess Profits in Florida
- Inflation, Supply Chains, Tariffs: Trends Impacting Business Insurance and Claims
- People Moves: Borys to Lead Howden US Financial Lines; Everest Appoints Vidovich General Counsel
- Amazon’s AWS Struggles to Recover After Major Outage Disrupts Apps, Services
- G20 Risk Watchdog Warns of ‘Significant Gaps’ in Global Crypto Rules
- Hackers Had Been Lurking in Cyber Firm F5 Systems Since 2023
- Chamber of Commerce Sues Over Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee
- An Unsustainable Trend – Declining P/C Rates and Rising Cost of Risk: Marsh’s Doyle
- Markets/Coverages: Resilience Expands Tech E&O Coverage for Clients Above $25M
- Can a More Unified Front Be Formed Against Legal System Abuse?
- People Moves: Howden US Appoints Clark to Lead Private Risk Solutions; Krupowicz Named Head of Operations
- Gaps in Awareness of HO Coverage Provides Opportunity for Agents: Survey
- NAMIC to Federal Lawmakers: Do Your Job on Flood Insurance Program
- Natural Disaster Claims in 2025 to Again Top $100B Despite ‘Abnormally Low’ Q3 Events
- Travelers Q3 Net Income Soars 50% on Lower Catastrophe Losses
- Workers’ Compensation Medical Claims Costs Rising Across Most States: WCRI
- ‘Catastrophic’ Hacks Warning Follows Intrusion of Cyber Firm F5
- Ransomware Ensnares $4.3 Trillion Muni Market’s Key Site
- All Commercial Insurance Lines Except One in ‘Soft-Market Territory’: WTW
- Volvo, State Farm Partner on Point-of-Sale Auto Insurance
- SIAA Launches New Data Driven AI Tool to Boost Agency, Carrier Growth
- US Sanctions Online Scammers Who Stole Billions From Victims
- People Moves: Chamberlain to Lead Nationwide’s Small Commercial Operations; Duck Creek Gains New CEO in Former PowerSchool CEO Gulati
- Government Shutdown Threatens US Home Sales in Flood-Prone Areas: Report
- Agents Struggle to Find Capacity, Meet Customer Timing Expectations: Survey
- Viewpoint: Can Parametric Insurance Bridge the FEMA Gap?
- Look Out, Uber. The Future Looks a Lot More Like Waymo.
- Marsh McLennan and Businesses to Unify Under ‘Marsh’ Brand; New Unit Created
- Apple Sued Over Use of Copyrighted Books to Train Apple Intelligence
- AI’s Growth Leaves Financial Regulators Struggling to Catch Up
- Samsung Hit With $445.5M Jury Verdict Over Wireless Communications Patents
- Bold Penguin Acquires SquareRisk to Expand Specialty, E&S Access
- US Probes Driver Assistance Software in 2.9 Million Tesla Vehicles Over Traffic Violations
- Ex-Fed Official Sees Secular ‘Shocks’ Ahead From Extreme Weather
- La Niña’s Back, but Will It Amp Up Hurricane Season?
- People Moves: Boxx Hires Leads for Distribution, Claims and Tech; XPT Specialty Hires Staver, Luceno to Personal Lines Team
- Survey Shows Homeowners Warming to DIY Digital Claims, Insurance Processes
- High Demand for Gen AI Insurance; Buyers Say They’ll Pay More: Report
- Microsoft Forecasts Show Data Center Crunch Persisting Into 2026
- APCIA Chair Robusto: Industry Must Fight False Narratives, Improve Public Trust
- FurtherAI Raises $25M to Alleviate Insurance Industry’s ‘Busywork’ Burden
- CyberCube Gains a New $180M Investor in Spectrum Equity
- World Is Far More Ablaze Now With Damaging Fires Than in 1980s: Study
- People Moves: GEICO Names Orpello CMO; O’Donnell Head of Logistics at Howden US
- Musk’s X Settles Ex-Twitter Executives’ $128 Million Severance Pay Lawsuit
- Survey: Employer, Employee Views Differ on Workplace Safety
- Acrisure to Lay Off 400 Employees, Citing Tech Advancements and AI Integration
- Toyota Recalls Nearly 400,000 Vehicles Due to Malfunctioning Rearview Camera
- OpenAI, Anthropic Eye Using Investor Funds to Settle AI Copyright Lawsuits, FT Reports
- Responsible AI Deployment Linked to Better Business Outcomes: EY
- Chobani Urges End to Dannon Parent’s Cold-Brew Coffee Lawsuit
- AI-Power Boom to Drive $1.1 Trillion in US Utility Grid Spending
- Workers’ Compensation Continues to Lead P/C Industry With Strong Profits
- Will Airport Runway Close Calls Spur Wider Adoption of Cockpit Alert Technology?
- Charlie Javice Duped JPMorgan Out of $175 Million. Bank Is Picking Up Her Legal Tab
- US Supreme Court Allows Order Forcing Google to Make App Store Reform
- People Moves: Keebler, Justice Join CFC’s New US-Based Cyber Development Team
- US Tariffs on Heavy Truck Imports to Begin Nov. 1, Says Trump
- Viewpoint: How Transactional Risk Insurance Became Essential for M&A Certainty
- Honeywell Offloads Inherited Asbestos Liabilities
- Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Sue Meta Over Church Shooting
- With Capital Aplenty and Power of AI, Commercial Lines Promises Opportunity: Willis
- Hedge Funds Targeting Fire Insurance Hit a Wall in California
- Activision Officials Must Face Claims Over Microsoft Takeover, Judge Rules
- Cyber Group Extorts Executives After Claiming Oracle Apps Breach
- Fears of Massive Battery Fires Spark Local Opposition to Energy Storage Projects
- AIG Promotes 3 to Lead North America Commercial as Bailey Retires
- OpenAI Says Musk’s xAI Filed Secrets Suit to ‘Bully’ Ex-Workers
- White Mountains Insurance to Sell Unit to CVC in $1.75 Billion Deal
- Net-Zero Banking Alliance Folds After Mass Exodus by Members
- Viewpoint: Avoid Data Indigestion With Harmonization
- Brown & Brown Announces Roles Related to Risk Strategies Integration
- EPA Wants to Roll Back Super Pollutant Rules
- Tyson Foods to Pay $85 Million in Largest Pork Price-Fixing Settlement
- Allstate Promotes Rizzo to COO, Merten to President of Property-Liability
- Viewpoint: Gen AI Offers a New Frontier in Claims Modernization
- People Moves: Howden US Hires Murphy to Build Casualty; Hippo Appoints Gordon Chief Data Officer; Verisk Names Khemka President of Underwriting Solutions
- Uber Found Not Liable in First Trial Over Driver Sexual Assault Claims
- Icen Risk Brings M&A Insurance Products to US With $50M Capacity From Zurich
- Cyber Tops List of Business Risks With Geopolitical Volatility Surging Into Top 10: Aon
- US Government Shutdown Curtails Key Weather and Climate Programs
- NLRB Withdraws Claims That Apple CEO Violated Workers’ Rights
- For Global M&A, Third Quarter Was One of the Best–and Worst–in Recent History
- FEMA, Customs and Border Protection Staff Data Stolen in Breach
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