Q2 Global Commercial Insurance Rates Keep Dropping, Except for US Casualty July 23, 2026 By L.S. Howard Global commercial insurance rates dropped by 6%, on average, in the second quarter of 2026, following a 5% decline in...
Meta Employees’ Lawsuit Shows That if AI Fires You, Proving it Is the Hard Part July 23, 2026 By Daniel Wiessner A novel lawsuit claiming that Meta Platforms relied on discriminatory AI tools to select employees for layoffs highlights the problems...
Deja Vu as Berkley Bashes Delegated Underwriters During Quarterly Call July 23, 2026 By Chad Hemenway W.R. Berkley’s CEO wasted no time addressing the issue that has been stuck in his craw for at least a...
Majority of Small Business Are Underinsured as Other Expenses Prioritized July 23, 2026 By Andrea Wells New small business owners are more likely to have proper business insurance than those that have been operating longer. Even...
FDA Says It’s Investigating Another Cyclospora Parasite Outbreak July 23, 2026 By Daniela Sirtori and Jessica Nix The US Food and Drug Administration said it’s investigating yet another outbreak of the diarrhea-causing cyclospora parasite, with 72 cases...
As Parasite Spawned Chaos, Taylor Farms Slow-Walked Response July 22, 2026 By Jessica Nix and Kristina Peterson The US Food and Drug Administration had apologized, Taylor Farms said in a post on X. An agency lab test...
OpenAI Models Hacked Another Company’s Systems by Mistake July 22, 2026 By Rachel Metz OpenAI said its advanced artificial intelligence models inadvertently hacked Hugging Face Inc. in an “unprecedented” incident that prompted fresh calls...
Chubb Q2 Net Income Down 3.8% on ‘Overly Soft’ Large Account, E&S Property July 22, 2026 By Chad Hemenway Second quarter 2026 net income at insurer Chubb was down 3.8% compared to the same period in 2025 to about...
Insurance M&A Pace Down 15% in First Half 2026: OPTIS July 22, 2026 By Chad Hemenway Insurance agency mergers and acquisitions in the first six months of 2026 were down 15% compared with the same period...
Insurer Interest in AI Exclusions Growing as Risk Becomes Omnipresent July 22, 2026 By Don Jergler It’s no surprise given the penetration of artificial intelligence into lives and businesses that it appears insurers are gearing up...