National News for July 2025
- Broker WTW Beats Q2 Profit Estimates on Robust Product Demand
- AI, Crypto Securities Class Actions on Track for Highs in 2025: Cornerstone
- Markel Insurance Selling Reinsurance Renewal Rights to Nationwide
- Viewpoint: ‘AI Action Plan’ Does Not Address AGI, Superintelligence, or Alternate Intelligence
- Dating Advice App Tea Suspends Messaging After Breaches
- Allstate Q2 Income Eclipses $2B as Auto Turns in Combined Ratio of 86
- Verisk’s $2.35B Buy of AccuLynx ‘Natural Fit’ for Claims Management Solutions
- Palo Alto Networks Reaches $25 Billion Deal for CyberArk
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Hit in Cyberattack Targeting SharePoint
- ‘New Normal’ Sets in as Pace of Insurance Agency M&A Becomes Clear
- Viewpoint: Trucking Companies Face Growing Wage & Hour Class Action Risks
- More Than $360M in CFPB Compensation ‘at Risk,’ Say Consumer Groups
- AI May Be Needed to Fight Back Against Deepfakes Threat
- Industry Trades Throw Support Behind Bill to Affirm State Regulation of Insurance
- Traffic Fatalities Dip 6.3% in First Quarter 2025
- H1 Natural Disasters Had Insured Price Tag of $80B – Driven by US Claims: Munich Re
- Applied Underwriters Starts MGA Platform Innovation Risk
- EPA Set to Unravel US Authority to Regulate Greenhouse Gases
- Cincinnati Financial More Than Doubles Q2 Net Income
- Aon Reports 6% Organic Revenue Growth, Boosted by Commercial, Reinsurance Lines
- Lack of Proper Insurance Coverage for Data Centers Presents Pitfalls
- The Hartford Net Income Up 35% on Premium Growth
- Construction Projects Facing Delays Under Threat of ICE
- Viewpoint: Driverless Cars Are Changing the Future of Claims
- Justice Department Prepares Crackdown on Trump Tariff Violators
- Women’s Dating App Tea Reports 72,000 Images Stolen in Security Breach
- Allianz Life Says Majority of US Customers’ Data Stolen in Hack
- Trump’s AI Plan Urges Lighter Touch by FTC in Win for Microsoft
- Meta Clashes With Apple, Google Over Child Age Check Legislation
- Honda Launches Insurance Agency Powered by VIU by HUB
- Intel Beats Shareholder Lawsuit Over $32 Billion Stock Plunge
- AIUC Emerges From Stealth With $15M Seed to Help Enterprises Deploy AI Safely
- Viewpoint: Back to Basics – Risk Transfer Through Contracts and Insurance
- Microsoft Says Some SharePoint Server Hackers Now Using Ransomware
- Global Commercial Insurance Rates Drop 4% but Casualty Rates Are Rising: Marsh
- Fewer Insureds Shopping, More Switching, Says JD Power
- Some Large Accounts Start Seeing Chubb’s Back as it Focuses on Middle, Small
- Labor Department Proposes Over 60 Rule Changes in Push to Deregulate Workplaces
- EPA to Withdraw Foundation of Greenhouse Gas Rules, Sources Say
- Increasing Drone Incidents Near Airports, Stadiums Prompt Alarm, Officials Say
- White House Unveils Sweeping AI Action Plan to Boost Development
- Tally of Microsoft Victims Surges to 400 as Hackers Exploit SharePoint Flaw
- Big I: Independent Agencies’ Market Share Shows Small Decline
- ‘We’ll Have to See How This Plays Out,’ Says CEO Berkley on MGA Competitors
- Chubb Q2 Net Income Jumps 33% on Premium Growth, Underwriting
- Lawsuit Says Clorox Hackers Got Passwords Simply by Asking
- Attempts to Reform Litigation Funding Disclosure Continue on the Hill
- Prior Knowledge Ends Filmmaker Baldoni’s Coverage for Harassment Claims: Insurer
- Microsoft Rushes to Stop Hackers From Wreaking Global Havoc
- People Moves: W.R. Berkley Promotes Albert President of Vela Insurance; Fusion Specialty Names Underhill Head of Americas
- Workplace Injuries Costs Near $60B Per Year; Overexertion, Falls Top Causes
- WR Berkley Q2 Net Income Up Near 8% on Underwriting, Investments
- Hackers Exploit Microsoft SharePoint as Firm Works to Patch
- Renewal Rates in Q2 Tell of ‘Slowly Softening’ Commercial Lines Market, Says Ivans
- People Moves: Triple-I’s Porfilio New Head of Personal, Commercial Development at WTW’s ICT; Aspen Names Welch as Group CUO
- Trump’s Auto Safety Pick Promises Rapid Self-Driving Deployment
- ITRC: 2025 Data Breaches Outpace Same Period Last Year
- Authors Suing Anthropic Can Band Together in Copyright Suit, Judge Rules
- Drone Crashes, Security Threats Have States Demanding Power to Take Them Down
- Neptune Adds Capacity to Bring Flood Insurance Product Nationwide
- Trump Nominates Two Lawyers to Seal Republican Control of US Labor Board
- Excessive Litigation Causes Surge in Liability Insurance Costs: Marsh McLennan CEO
- Ford Recalls Over 694,000 SUVs After Year-Long Fuel Leak Probe
- Former AIG Exec McElroy Faces Sexual Assault Charges in Vermont
- NHTSA Shedding More Than 25% of Employees
- Cybersecurity Bosses Grow Increasingly Worried About AI Attacks and Misuse
- Allstate Expects Another $2B Catastrophe Losses in Q2
- Marsh McLennan Reports Q2 Organic Revenue Growth of 4%, Down From Q2 2024
- Travelers Q2 Net Income Soars on Less Losses, Favorable Reserves
- Insurance Supervisors’ Group Seeks Collaboration to Cover Disaster Losses
- Trump Administration Sued by States for Cutting Disaster Prevention Grants
- Meta Investors, Zuckerberg Reach Settlement to End $8B Privacy Litigation Trial
- PE Firm Warburg Pincus Acquires Majority Stake in Keystone Agency Partners
- Progressive Q2 Income More Than Doubles
- The Hartford Promotes Chhabra to Chief Risk Officer
- Former Lloyd’s CEO Neal to Lead General Insurance as President at AIG
- First-Half 2025 Insured Losses From Natural Cats Hit $100B, Driven by US Events
- US Farm Agency Ends Program to Support Small Businesses
- New Book Proposes Four-Prong Legal Strategy to Negate Nuclear Verdicts
- Viewpoint: US Life Reinsurance Driven by Insurers Seeking Growth, Capital Optimization
- Diageo Calls Tequila Purity Allegation ‘Baseless’ as Lawsuit Proceeds
- Antitrust Enforcers ‘Get Out of the Way’ of Multibillion-Dollar Deals
- Commerce Department Launches Investigation of Drones, Setting Stage for Tariffs
- Trump Set to Outline AI Priorities in Speech Asserting US Edge
- Insured Losses From US Hurricanes Could Rise by 50% With Global Warming
- People Moves: WTW Appoints Lockner Strategic Client Advisor to AAIS; WTW Names Thibault ICT Director
- Many Ice Cream Producers to Phase Out Artificial Food Dyes by 2028
- US Vehicle Recalls Reach Highest Level in Over a Year
- NHTSA Opens Recall Query Into Over 27,000 Polestar 2 Vehicles
- Nursing Homes Struggle With Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
- Meta Investors, Zuckerberg Square Off at $8B Trial Over Alleged Privacy Violations
- GOP Lawmakers Press Trump to Speed Review of Chinese-Made Drones
- FEMA Flood Maps Often Miss Flash Flood Risks, Leaving Homeowners Unprepared
- Report Shows Excessive Heat Pushes Worker Injury Risk Sky High
- T-Mobile Ending DEI Programs as it Seeks FCC Approval for 2 Deals
- Microsoft Outlook Users Experience Hourslong Outage Impacting Email
- How Carriers Can Win More Retail Broker Biz: Report
- US Faces More Extreme Weather Events, but Is Society Doing Enough?
- CSU Hurricane Season Forecast Adjusted to ‘Slightly’ Above Normal
- People Moves: Arch Insurance NA Promotes 5 to Division Presidents
- Delaware Top Court Sides With Zantac Makers in Cancer Claims
- What Flood Insurance Does and Does Not Cover
- US Sanctions Target North Korean Fake-Tech-Worker Scheme
- US Chamber Report Examines Copyright Value and Piracy Harms
- Three Insurers Join Ward’s Annual Top 50 P/C Ranking for 2025
- Northeast Cities Ranked Riskiest in National Allstate Driving Report
- Trump Vows No Tariff Extension, Hardens Threats on Copper, Drugs
- US Tariffs Projected to Slow Global Economy and Insurance Premium Growth: Swiss Re
- MGAs by the Numbers: Fronting Biz, Nonaffiliated MGAs Drive Growth
- Insurtech Inshur Raises $35 Million From Trinity Capital for US Expansion, AI Tech
- Viewpoint: Rising False Advertising Claims Reveal Major Coverage Protection Gap
- Impostor Uses AI to Impersonate Rubio, Contact Foreign and US Officials
- People Moves: WTW Hires Kharkavets as North America Head of ICT Claims
- White Mountains Buys Majority Ownership of Distinguished Programs for $230M
- SEC, SolarWinds Reach Settlement to End Lawsuit Related to 2020 Breach
- Ram Pickup Recalls Investigated After Seven Injuries Reported
- US Warns of Blackout Risk From Killing Coal as Trump Snubs Renewables
- Erie Insurance Restores All Operations After Month Outage; Says No Data Breached
- Tax Increase on Litigation Funders Does Not Make Final Budget Bill
- A Look at Some of the Deadliest Floods in the US in the Last 25 Years
- MarketScout: Q2 Composite Personal Lines Rates Up 4.6%; Commercial Up 2.8%
- Marsh Suit Against Alliant Alleges Poaching of Commercial Surety Team, Accounts
- Big I Celebrates Continued Tax Deduction for Many Independent Agents
- Lululemon Gets Aggressive About Lookalikes With Costco Lawsuit
- A Majority of Companies Are Already Feeling the Climate Heat
- Aon’s Albert G. Ruben Joins Relation Insurance
- Reinsurance Renewal Prices Moderate as Capacity Exceeds Cedent Demand: Brokers
- Trump Asks SCOTUS to Allow Removal of Consumer Product Safety Commissioners
- People Moves: Liberty GTS Names Weiss Head of Americas; Arch Insurance NA Taps Kaufmann for US Marine Business; Costa to Lead Aspen Investor Relations
- Insurers Race to the Starting Line in the Dawn of the AI Decision Era
- Kraft Heinz Recalls Oscar Mayer Turkey Bacon Over Listeria Risk
- US Probes Ex-Ransom Negotiator Accused of Scheming With Hackers
- NOAA Delays Cutoff of Key Satellite Data for Hurricane Forecasting
- Google Owes $314 Million for Misusing Android Cell Phone Data
- Nationwide Completes $1.25B Deal for Allstate’s Stop-Loss Segment
- Viewpoint: Broker’s Key Takeaways From kWh Analytics’ 2025 Solar Risk Report
- People Moves: Kaminski Returns to Zurich NA to Lead Direct Markets; Chubb Names Williams Private Equity Leader; Trucordia Names Khanna CIO
- General Mills Changing Nature Valley Labels After Lawsuit’s Herbicide Claim
- How Much Does a Heat Wave Cost? Insurers and CEOs Want to Know
- DOGE Now Targeting SEC Policy, Eyes SPAC Rules, Sources Say
- Supreme Court Dealt Blows to EPA and Environmental Protections
- Truckers Fear Job Loss as New English Language Rules Take Effect
- Senate Strikes AI Regulation Ban From Trump Megabill
- Supreme Court Seeks Justice Department Views on Bayer’s Roundup Appeal
- Apple Loses Bid to Dismiss Justice Department Antitrust Suit
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