Descartes & Nextpower Launch $80M Parametric Wind Cover for Solar Farms
Descartes Underwriting and Nextpower launch the first parametric straight-line wind solution for solar farms, with limits up to $100M and on-site sensor triggers.
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HCI Group Brings $12M in Tokenized Reinsurance to Solana via SurancePlus
Tokenized reinsurance reaches the live market: SurancePlus issues three Solana-native HCI Re 2026 securities with a $5,000 minimum, targeting up to $12M in capital…
WTW CLIPS: US Commercial Insurance Rates Drop to 2.5% in Q1 2026
US commercial insurance rates hit 2.5% in Q1 2026 — the first sub-3% reading since the hard market began. Property fell 5.5%, cyber dropped…
USAA’s $500M Florida Dividend: How Tort Reform Unlocked a Mutual’s Biggest Payout
USAA distributes $500M to ~830,000 Florida auto policyholders, completing nearly $1B in member returns since December 2025. A deep look at how HB 837…
Moody’s: AI and Tech Investment Will Power the Next Phase of Insurance Broker Growth
Moody's Ratings named AI and tech investment as the primary driver of the next phase of insurance broker growth as $162B in sector debt…
Colorado’s SB26-155 Bets on Hail Mitigation Grants to Break a Decade of Homeowners Insurance Losses
Colorado signed SB26-155 establishing a hail-mitigation grant enterprise funded by a 0.5% insurer fee — targeting the physical cause of $5B+ in decade-long losses…
Howard Hughes Holdings Closes $2.1B Vantage Group Deal, Pioneering the Ackman Insurance Float Model
Howard Hughes Holdings closes $2.1B Vantage Group acquisition at 1.5x book value — with Pershing Square managing Vantage's assets fee-free, the deal establishes the…
MS Amlin: Earthquake Cat Models Blind to the Supershear Ruptures Behind Two-Thirds of Major Losses
MS Amlin finds supershear earthquake ruptures — present in 36% of major events since 2010, driving 66% of insured losses — are absent from…
$670 Billion in US Data Centres Faces Unmodeled Storm Risk as Insurer Capacity Lags Build-Out
51% of planned US data centres—$670 billion—sit in high severe-convective-storm-risk states as hyperscalers move into Texas, Tennessee, and Ohio; S&P estimates $10B in new…
RenaissanceRe’s Third-Party Capital Hits $8.46B as $94M Q1 Fee Income Confirms the Reinsurer’s Asset-Manager Transformation
RenRe's Capital Partners platform hits $8.46B AUM at Q1 2026 — up 7% YoY despite $930M returned to investors — as $94M in fee…