Recent Insurance Industry News

Uninsurable Future: Managing the Climate-Change-Fueled Home Insurance Crisis

• Trust Is the New Frontier in a World of AI Synthetic Content, Digital Doppelgangers

• Leak Exposes Payments to Hacking Group That Has Extorted Law Firms

• Markets/Coverages: CFC Adds Cyber Cover for SME Executives; Cowbell Brings AI Agents to Policyholders

• Priceline to Face FTC Action Over Deceptive Hotel Ads, Sources Say

• McDonald’s Hit With Class Action Alleging AI-Powered Menu Price-Fixing

Hackers Tricked ASOS Employee to Steal Work Account Login

• So. Korean Banks Were Likely Hacked by China-Based Actor With AI Agent: CrowdStrike

• Legacy Private Credit Loans Face Refinancing Risks as Rates Rise

• Gold Body Accused of Enabling Deaths at Tanzanian Gold Mine

• Canada’s Weston Family and Fairfax Financial Partner to Buy UK’s Boots in $8.9B Deal

• Drones Hit Yandex Site in First Major Attack on Russian Data Hub

NY City Accuses Law Firm of Running Injury Claims Fraud Operation

• Insurance Executive Killed His Wife, Daughter, Then Himself, NJ Township Police Say

• TikTok Accused by NY of Running Secret Safety Tests on Teens

• AM Best Downgrades Hanover Fire & Casualty of Pennsylvania

• Six Charged for Roles in ‘Smash-and-Grab’ Robberies of Jewelry Stores

• Heffernan Insurance Acquires Walterry Brokers of Maryland

Michigan Attorney General Sues State’s Blue Cross Health Insurer

• Ohio Contractor Sued for for Alleged Incomplete Home Improvements

• People Moves: Severino Joins Alliant’s Midwest Benefits Team; Doubtless Names Wiley as Regional President for North America

• AM Best Withdraws Credit Ratings of Hartland Mutual

• AM Best Revises Outlook to Stable for Ohio’s Buckeye State Mutual

• Missouri AG Secures $42K Judgment Against Contractor Accused of Fraud

US Oil Producers Ramp Down Gulf Output 25% on Storm Isaias

• Texas Agency Sues to Stop Release of Data Center Records, Citing Terrorist Risk

• Gulf Coast on Alert for First Hurricane of 2026

• Data Centers Pump $340M Into Rural Texas Projects

• US Gulf Faces Heavy Rain Threat From Developing Tropical System

• Hackers Breached Propulsion System of US-Bound Oil Tanker

Two Past Hurricanes, OIR Data Give Idea of What to Expect From Isaias in Florida

• Florida Cybersecurity Firm Head Charged With Scamming Victimized Businesses

• US Oil Producers Ramp Down Gulf Output 25% on Storm Isaias

• Gulf Coast on Alert for First Hurricane of 2026

• SpaceX Seeks Approval for Florida Gas Pipeline to Support Cape Canaveral Launches

• Karen Clark Rolls Out Severe Convective Storm Model 5.0

Will California’s New Smoke Claims Law Create a Recovery Bottleneck?

• California Workers’ Comp Combined Ratio Highest in More Than 20 Years

• Don’t Sweat the Heatwave, El Niño Is Cooking up Some Raucous Weather for California

• Corgi Insurance Launches Fine Arts, Sports and Entertainment Coverage

• ICW Group Expands Commercial Lines Portfolio in California

• People Moves: Alchemy Names Peck President, Personal Lines, West; Ring Joins Leavitt United Insurance Services as SVP