SUSEP says Brazil's insurance regulator has finished a sweeping rewrite of property and casualty contract and claims-handling rules, with a hard compliance deadline now on the calendar.
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OSFI has finalized new regulatory return templates for federally regulated insurers, rebuilding the statement of profit or loss around a new international standard's operating, investing and financing categories ahead of its Canadian rollout.
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OSFI has finalized MICAT 2027, cutting the base risk weight for certain low-rise multi-unit residential construction exposures while leaving high-rise projects unchanged. The revised guideline, which ties the lower weight to underwriting and lien conditions, takes effect at…
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IRDAI has fined Canara HSBC Life Insurance for mis-selling a deferred annuity policy to an 88-year-old customer through corporate agent Canara Bank. The regulator ordered a full premium refund, an audit of elderly-customer sales, and tighter oversight of…
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The NAIC's free Life Insurance Policy Locator has matched consumers with more than $16 billion in lost and unclaimed benefits, regulators say, with growth accelerating over the past year.
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Lloyd's of London's half-year results show gross written premium and underwriting profit both up, while investment income fell on rising bond yields. CEO Patrick Tiernan warns the market faces structural disorder, not just a spike in volatility.
Read storyBamboo Insurance Services has filed to go public on the NYSE under the ticker BMB, putting a capital-light, AI-driven approach to homeowners…
Munich Re has agreed to acquire U.S. cyber insurtech At-Bay in a deal valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars, expanding…
Private equity firm Thoma Bravo has agreed to take specialty insurance marketplace Accelerant Holdings private in an all-cash transaction. The deal carries…
Corebridge Financial and Equitable Holdings shareholders approved their all-stock merger at a July 30, 2026 special meeting, clearing the path toward a…
Everest's Mexico insurance sale to Fairfax closes out a three-market retail exit, landing Fairfax in a market squeezed by VAT reform and…
The Hartford's Equitable acquisition adds $500m in premium as a top-six carrier absorbs a sub-1%-share rival, echoing its 2017 Aetna playbook.
Cover Genius acquired Friendsurance to embed cover into DACH banks, betting on a digital insurance channel still under 20% of EU premiums…
American Family's $1.2 billion Bowhead Specialty deal converts a 2020 seed stake and reinsurance treaty into outright acquisition control now.
Tiptree will pay $100 million for Universal Shield Insurance Group, redeploying capital freed by its $1.65 billion Fortegra sale into specialty P&C.
PicPay Kovr acquisition wins Bacen's final approval, moving Brazil's fintech giant from distribution into underwriting across its policy base.
Lincoln Talcott reinsurance deal cedes $5.8bn of GUL reserves and $500m of funding agreements; Lincoln retains policy administration and claims handling.
Allianz Partners has agreed to acquire nib's Travel Insurance Direct brand and lock in a 20-year distribution deal across Australia and New…
Aon plc has named Nadin Virani as interim Chief Financial Officer after Edmund Reese stepped down from the role. Reese will stay…
India's insurance regulator has added a new whole-time member overseeing distribution, arriving weeks after the Authority approved sweeping reforms to how intermediaries…
Vantage leadership shifts to Arch Capital veterans Marc Grandisson and David Gansberg after a breakout $201.7M net income year for the Bermuda…
Allstate CFO pick Christian Lown arrives as Property-Liability's combined ratio hits 82.0% and catastrophe losses tumble, testing capital strategy.
Arch reinsurance leadership splits as William Soares and Jon Schriber become Bermuda and U.S. CEOs, reporting to new global chief Jerome Halgan.
SiriusPoint fine art specie unit debuts with Mark Aspinall as head, marking its second London Market Specialty division launch in just three…
QBE Asia leadership expanded on 29 June 2026 with Patrick Karlowski named COO and Florence Chan elevated to a newly created regional…
VIG Re names Wilfrid Goh Chief Representative APAC as it opens a Singapore office under VIGRe28, backed by EUR 995.6m GWP and…
Aegon New York headquarters set to open mid-2027. Will Fuller takes President & COO role Jan 2027. Redomiciliation as Transamerica Inc. completed…
Willis Re appoints Jim Summers as CEO Global Specialties; Arch Insurance International names Kendra Felisky as UK Chair after nine years under…
Saudi Re appoints ex-Swiss Re VP Ruchi Jain as Principal Officer of its GIFT City IIO. GIFT City reinsurance GWP surged to…
Lloyd's launches a May–July 2026 market consultation on skills, culture and talent — replacing the 11-year Dive In Festival with embedded retention…
OSFI has finalized new regulatory return templates for federally regulated insurers, rebuilding the statement of profit or loss around a new international…
OSFI has finalized MICAT 2027, cutting the base risk weight for certain low-rise multi-unit residential construction exposures while leaving high-rise projects unchanged.…
The NAIC's free Life Insurance Policy Locator has matched consumers with more than $16 billion in lost and unclaimed benefits, regulators say,…
Triple-I's new Insurance Affordability Index compares auto and homeowners insurance costs against median household income across every U.S. state.
Bamboo Insurance Services has filed to go public on the NYSE under the ticker BMB, putting a capital-light, AI-driven approach to homeowners…
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed that LINA lawfully terminated a claimant’s long-term disability benefits, rejecting all six arguments she raised on ERISA appeal.
A new Clearspeed-commissioned analysis, authored by company advisor Kim Garland, estimates that fraud and inaccurate information cost U.S. personal auto and homeowners…
Aon plc has named Nadin Virani as interim Chief Financial Officer after Edmund Reese stepped down from the role. Reese will stay…
Arkansas, the District of Columbia, Indiana, and Michigan won reaccreditation under the NAIC's Financial Regulation Standards program during the 2026 Summer National…
AM Best's new special report finds that US insurers' Level 3 asset holdings have surged over the past decade, with the life/annuity…
Private equity firm Thoma Bravo has agreed to take specialty insurance marketplace Accelerant Holdings private in an all-cash transaction. The deal carries…
Three wildfires near Spokane, Washington destroyed up to 700 structures and forced 60,000 evacuations over the first weekend of August, Guy Carpenter…
Lloyd's of London's half-year results show gross written premium and underwriting profit both up, while investment income fell on rising bond yields.…
EIOPA has submitted technical advice urging the European Commission to pursue targeted harmonisation of insurance guarantee schemes across the EU.
New FCA rule COCON 1.1.7FR and PS25/23 Handbook guidance on non-financial misconduct took effect on 1 September 2026, resetting conduct-rule and fitness-and-propriety…
Munich Re has agreed to acquire U.S. cyber insurtech At-Bay in a deal valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars, expanding…
FINMA's Insurance Market Report 2025 shows Swiss insurers' aggregate profit surging 135.8%, powered by a dramatic reinsurance rebound led by Swiss Re,…
The Financial Stability Board has published the full set of public comments received on its consultation over sound practices for responsible AI…
The IAIS's mid-year Global Insurance Market Report shows stable solvency, liquidity and profitability across the global sector at year-end 2025 - but…
The FCA has widened its Scale-up Unit to firms it alone regulates, admitting insurtech Urban Jungle alongside four other companies for the…
Hannover Re's first-half 2026 results showed underwriting margins improving even as gross reinsurance revenue contracted, and the group left its full-year profit…
Germany's new AI implementation law hands BaFin market surveillance powers over high-risk AI systems, including those insurers use for life and health…
Munich Re posted a record €3.9bn H1 2026 profit and confirmed its €6.3bn annual target, even as July renewals volume fell 9.1%…
SCOR's Group solvency ratio rose to 220% in Q2 2026, net of a dividend accrual, growth capital deployment and deleveraging — ahead…
IRDAI has fined Canara HSBC Life Insurance for mis-selling a deferred annuity policy to an 88-year-old customer through corporate agent Canara Bank.…
The NAIC's free Life Insurance Policy Locator has matched consumers with more than $16 billion in lost and unclaimed benefits, regulators say,…
EIOPA has submitted technical advice urging the European Commission to pursue targeted harmonisation of insurance guarantee schemes across the EU.
APRA has finalised updated life insurance reporting standards LRS 112.3, LRS 114.2 and LRS 114.3, migrating related-party, derivatives and off-balance sheet data…
India's insurance regulator has opened public consultation on a Public Insurance Registry, a proposed digital infrastructure layer designed to connect insurers, reinsurers,…
FINMA's Insurance Market Report 2025 shows Swiss insurers' aggregate profit surging 135.8%, powered by a dramatic reinsurance rebound led by Swiss Re,…
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed that LINA lawfully terminated a claimant’s long-term disability benefits, rejecting all six arguments she raised on ERISA appeal.
Indonesia's OJK says 120 of 144 insurance and reinsurance companies have met the mid-2026 minimum equity requirement, while guarantee companies lag at…
India's insurance regulator has added a new whole-time member overseeing distribution, arriving weeks after the Authority approved sweeping reforms to how intermediaries…
India's life insurers reported a 20.66% jump in July first-year premium to Rs 47,004.84 crore, but the number of policies sold rose…
AM Best's new special report finds that US insurers' Level 3 asset holdings have surged over the past decade, with the life/annuity…
Brazil's Susep-supervised insurers posted a barely-there 0.52% nominal revenue gain in H1 2026 — a real-terms decline — even as life insurance…
SUSEP says Brazil's insurance regulator has finished a sweeping rewrite of property and casualty contract and claims-handling rules, with a hard compliance…
OSFI has finalized MICAT 2027, cutting the base risk weight for certain low-rise multi-unit residential construction exposures while leaving high-rise projects unchanged.…
Lloyd's of London's half-year results show gross written premium and underwriting profit both up, while investment income fell on rising bond yields.…
Triple-I's new Insurance Affordability Index compares auto and homeowners insurance costs against median household income across every U.S. state.
EIOPA has submitted technical advice urging the European Commission to pursue targeted harmonisation of insurance guarantee schemes across the EU.
India's insurance regulator has opened public consultation on a Public Insurance Registry, a proposed digital infrastructure layer designed to connect insurers, reinsurers,…
Bamboo Insurance Services has filed to go public on the NYSE under the ticker BMB, putting a capital-light, AI-driven approach to homeowners…
Munich Re has agreed to acquire U.S. cyber insurtech At-Bay in a deal valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars, expanding…
FINMA's Insurance Market Report 2025 shows Swiss insurers' aggregate profit surging 135.8%, powered by a dramatic reinsurance rebound led by Swiss Re,…
A new Clearspeed-commissioned analysis, authored by company advisor Kim Garland, estimates that fraud and inaccurate information cost U.S. personal auto and homeowners…
Indonesia's OJK says 120 of 144 insurance and reinsurance companies have met the mid-2026 minimum equity requirement, while guarantee companies lag at…
Brazil's insurance regulator Susep has opened a public consultation, the Tomada de Subsídios, inviting carriers, brokers, specialists and consumers to submit input…
Bamboo Insurance Services has filed to go public on the NYSE under the ticker BMB, putting a capital-light, AI-driven approach to homeowners…
Munich Re has agreed to acquire U.S. cyber insurtech At-Bay in a deal valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars, expanding…
A new Clearspeed-commissioned analysis, authored by company advisor Kim Garland, estimates that fraud and inaccurate information cost U.S. personal auto and homeowners…
The FCA has widened its Scale-up Unit to firms it alone regulates, admitting insurtech Urban Jungle alongside four other companies for the…
Private equity firm Thoma Bravo has agreed to take specialty insurance marketplace Accelerant Holdings private in an all-cash transaction. The deal carries…
Cover Genius acquired Friendsurance to embed cover into DACH banks, betting on a digital insurance channel still under 20% of EU premiums…
PicPay Kovr acquisition wins Bacen's final approval, moving Brazil's fintech giant from distribution into underwriting across its policy base.
Lemonade Q2 2026 revenue rose 79% to $294.4 million, but a lighter reinsurance cession rate drove much of the jump, not organic…
Hugging Face's autonomous AI breach exposed 17,000 logged attacker actions, a wake-up call for cyber insurers pricing 2027 agentic-AI treaty risk.
Lemonade Hannover Re financing: Hannover Re's $250m growth facility replaces General Catalyst as Lemonade approaches EBITDA breakeven in 2027.
Microinsurance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Turaco ASA LifeCare enrolls 500,000 policies in four months; insured borrowers 60% less likely to default on loans.
Sixfold's AI Underwriter — the autonomous underwriting agent its $30M Series B was raised to build — is now in production at…
India's insurance regulator has opened public consultation on a Public Insurance Registry, a proposed digital infrastructure layer designed to connect insurers, reinsurers,…
The FCA has widened its Scale-up Unit to firms it alone regulates, admitting insurtech Urban Jungle alongside four other companies for the…
The NAIC convened its 2026 Summer National Meeting in Columbus, Ohio, placing AI governance and cyber risk oversight at the center of…
Germany's new AI implementation law hands BaFin market surveillance powers over high-risk AI systems, including those insurers use for life and health…
Long-term care reinsurance pricing is normalizing: Manulife cedes C$3.2bn to Munich Re Life US at a negative 5% cede, its third such…
Coral reef parametric insurance turns fund-backed as Willis (WTW) and the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund launch a regional reef risk-transfer programme.
Private health insurance in Australia is ageing fast: APRA data show hospital cover rising alongside surging exclusions and out-of-pocket costs.
AM Best rated captives saved $8.2 billion over five years, even as global commercial rates fell for eight straight quarters.
Ryan Specialty's Q2 2026 revenue rose 7.2% to $916.6M as delegated authority outgrew wholesale brokerage amid a 16% property-cat rate decline.
WTW Propel AI investment totals $625 million in cash, targeting $400 million in savings and a 30% margin by 2028, WTW's Q2…
Lemonade Q2 2026 revenue rose 79% to $294.4 million, but a lighter reinsurance cession rate drove much of the jump, not organic…
Commercial insurance rates fell 6% globally in Q2 2026, the eighth straight quarterly drop, as IMEA overtook the Pacific as the steepest…
SUSEP says Brazil's insurance regulator has finished a sweeping rewrite of property and casualty contract and claims-handling rules, with a hard compliance…
OSFI has finalized new regulatory return templates for federally regulated insurers, rebuilding the statement of profit or loss around a new international…
OSFI has finalized MICAT 2027, cutting the base risk weight for certain low-rise multi-unit residential construction exposures while leaving high-rise projects unchanged.…
IRDAI has fined Canara HSBC Life Insurance for mis-selling a deferred annuity policy to an 88-year-old customer through corporate agent Canara Bank.…
The NAIC's free Life Insurance Policy Locator has matched consumers with more than $16 billion in lost and unclaimed benefits, regulators say,…
EIOPA has submitted technical advice urging the European Commission to pursue targeted harmonisation of insurance guarantee schemes across the EU.
APRA has finalised updated life insurance reporting standards LRS 112.3, LRS 114.2 and LRS 114.3, migrating related-party, derivatives and off-balance sheet data…
New FCA rule COCON 1.1.7FR and PS25/23 Handbook guidance on non-financial misconduct took effect on 1 September 2026, resetting conduct-rule and fitness-and-propriety…
India's insurance regulator has opened public consultation on a Public Insurance Registry, a proposed digital infrastructure layer designed to connect insurers, reinsurers,…
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed that LINA lawfully terminated a claimant’s long-term disability benefits, rejecting all six arguments she raised on ERISA appeal.
Indonesia's OJK says 120 of 144 insurance and reinsurance companies have met the mid-2026 minimum equity requirement, while guarantee companies lag at…
Brazil's insurance regulator Susep has opened a public consultation, the Tomada de Subsídios, inviting carriers, brokers, specialists and consumers to submit input…
