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General Motors Settles With FTC Over Sharing Driver Data

The US Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with General Motors Co. over claims the automaker deceived drivers by collecting their personal data and sharing it with third parties. As part of the settlement, GM will be banned for …

P/C Market Profit Improvement Expected to Continue Through 2026: Triple-I, Milliman

The “gap is closing” between commercial lines and personal lines underwriting results as the insurance industry overall is expected to continue its run of premium growth and improved underwriting results over the next 2 years. According to a report from …

Smoke, Coverage Issues Cloud Wildfire Forecast: $35-$45B Losses Insured

CoreLogic announced a preliminary range of insured losses for the Eaton and Palisades Fires in Los Angeles of $35 billion to $45 billion, but there are a lot of factors that could change the numbers. “We don’t know,” Tom Larsen, …

Cyber Insurance Market to Expand as Risks Evolve: Gallagher

While 2024 brought record-breaking data-breach costs and evolving cyber risk, all signs point to stable rates and ample capacity in 2025. Intense competition among cyber insurance carriers has resulted in higher limits, enhanced cyber risk management services, flexibility in insurance …

Actuary Group Forecasts Climate Change to Have Massive GDP Hit Without Policy Action

Here’s stark warning in a new report from a group of actuaries: the global economy could face a 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090. That is if immediate policy actions on risks posed by climate change are not …

FBI Warned Agents It Believes Phone Logs Hacked Last Year

FBI leaders have warned that they believe hackers who broke into AT&T Inc.’s system last year stole months of their agents’ call and text logs, setting off a race within the bureau to protect the identities of confidential informants, a …

White House Aims to Bolster Cybersecurity With Last-Minute Order

President Joe Biden on Thursday is set to issue an executive order aimed at strengthening the federal government’s cybersecurity and offering it more tools to punish digital attackers. The order in the final days of the Biden administration is meant …

DOJ Reports $2.9B Recovered in False Claims Act Litigation

Litigation under the False Claims Act generated more than $2.9 billion in settlement and judgments the last fiscal year, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. According to data released Jan. 15, the Justice Department’s Civil Division said the government …

Too High? Too Low? BMS Analyzes Early Wildfire Insured Loss Estimates

Industry analysts’ early estimates of insurance industry losses for the January 2025 California wildfires have already grown from $8 billion to $40 billion-plus—with many noting that it’s too early for precision in the numbers. In short, whether they were calculated …

Bayer Faces Billions in Payouts for Decades-Old Toxic Mess

Bayer AG’s Monsanto unit stopped making toxic PCBs a half century ago, but the legal fallout lingers even as many of the building materials made with the chemicals are no longer used in US homes, schools and factories. On Tuesday …

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