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Why the Future of Cyber Insurance Depends on the Cyber Talent Behind It

With increasing cyber risk, attracting the right talent into insurance is a must. Here’s how the cyber space is getting the job done.

Cyber

Nipped in the Bud

In this fictive scenario, a thriving boutique owner’s dream goes up in flames when a hidden electrical hazard and an overlooked insurance gap combine to deliver a devastating financial loss.

Risk Scenarios

From Convenience to Crime: How Payment Apps Stand to Reshape Business Fraud

As companies embrace payment apps for speed and convenience, rising fraud losses, regulatory scrutiny, and insurance gaps are forcing businesses to rethink how — and whether — they use them.

Fraud/Theft

Executive Video Q&A

Travis MacMillian from Xceedance on Turning AI Into Real Business Impact Across Insurance

AI is no longer experimental—so where is it actually delivering results, and what separates leaders from laggards?

Xceedance

Nuclear Verdicts and Rising Claims Costs: How Hospitals Can Navigate an Increasingly Difficult Liability Market

The health care liability insurance market faces daunting challenges, with nuclear verdicts skyrocketing and premiums climbing. With the litigation environment unlikely to improve, more robust risk management is a must.

Arch Insurance Company

Understanding Legal System Abuse: How Lawsuit Exploitation Drives Up Costs for Everyone

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Three Green Technologies Creating New Property Risks — and How to Manage Them

Home Page - Featured

From Reactive to Proactive: The Shift Defining Risk Management

Artificial Intelligence

8 Questions for Philadelphia Insurance Companies’ Scott Bayer

Q&As

News For May. 7th

People on the Move

Editors' Picks

15 Questions for Optum's Dr. Robert Hall

3 Coverage Gaps That Can Derail a Healthcare Merger — and How to Close Them

Business Leaders Recast Insurance as Strategic Resilience Tool, Not Just a Cost

Introducing the 2026 Power Brokers

The Heat is On: Keeping Workers Safe in a Changing Environment

From Brooklyn Bookshelves to Building Resilience: Lesli Rice on Mentorship, Market Shifts and Modern Risk

Travelers' Jennifer Ampulski on Life Sciences Risk Trends

How AI Built for Insurance Is Helping Brokerages Work Smarter, Serve Clients Better and Grow Revenue

Why the Future of Cyber Insurance Depends on the Cyber Talent Behind It

Nipped in the Bud

From Convenience to Crime: How Payment Apps Stand to Reshape Business Fraud

Travis MacMillian from Xceedance on Turning AI Into Real Business Impact Across Insurance

Nuclear Verdicts and Rising Claims Costs: How Hospitals Can Navigate an Increasingly Difficult Liability Market

Understanding Legal System Abuse: How Lawsuit Exploitation Drives Up Costs for Everyone

Three Green Technologies Creating New Property Risks — and How to Manage Them

From Reactive to Proactive: The Shift Defining Risk Management

8 Questions for Philadelphia Insurance Companies’ Scott Bayer

News For May. 7th

1. California Workers' Comp Costs Per Claim Rose 6% in 2025, Driven by Growth Across All Key Components

2. MFA Misconfiguration Is the Costliest Point of Failure in Manufacturing Cyber Claims

3. AI Adoption Outpaces Workforce Readiness, Creating Risks for Organizations

4. Secondary Perils Drive Record Aggregate Insured Losses Across North America in 2025

5. Organized Crime Reshapes Cargo Theft as Impersonation Tactics Mature Into Scalable Threat

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The Risk Brief:

People on the Move

Sundeep Khera Appointed Head of Marine at Beazley

WTW Appoints Spike Lipkin as Chief AI Officer and Gordon Wintrob as Head of AI Acceleration

Dan Malloy Appointed as Executive Managing Director at Banyan Risk Ltd

John Newell Named Chief Executive Officer at World Insurance Associates

Michael J. Cusack Named President of Alliant Property & Casualty at Alliant Insurance Services

Ashleigh Sears Named Alternative Risk Solutions Practice Leader at Lockton

Editors' Picks

The Very Real Benefits of an In-Person Vermont Captive Board Meeting

Trucordia's Felix Morgan on Tackling Customer Pain Points in Today's Market

On the Record with John Dempsey of Insight Risk Technologies

No, Really: Insurance Could Lead the Charge in Curbing Gun Violence

Workers' Comp Forum

California Workers' Comp Costs Per Claim Rose 6% in 2025, Driven by Growth Across All Key Components

North American Worker Safety Confidence Slips as Stress, Lone Worker Accidents Persist

How Workers' Compensation Can Better Manage the Rising Tide of PTSD Presumption Claims

Workers' Compensation Medical Inflation Holds Steady in Q1 2026 as Broader Price Pressures Build

Small Construction Firms Account for Half of Industry Fatalities Despite Employing Just Over a Third of Workers

Air Ambulance Costs in Workers' Comp Surged More Than 60% Over the Past Decade

Risk Insiders

The Cyber Insurance Conundrum

AI Isn’t the Strategy. Outcomes Are.

How Can We Insure Against Political Volatility?

Enhancing the Claims Experience Through Data and AI

The Hidden Risk of Underreporting — Part 1: How Silica Overexposure Becomes a Silent Threat

If AI Is So Efficient, Why Aren’t Insurers Seeing the Savings?

Critical Risks

Business Leaders Recast Insurance as Strategic Resilience Tool, Not Just a Cost

Four Converging Threats Are Making Critical Infrastructure Increasingly Fragile

AI Tops Insurance Executive Priorities as Regulatory Concerns and Market Volatility Reshape the Risk Landscape

3 Business-Ending Risks U.S. Executives Aren't Prioritizing Enough in 2026

Supply Chain Paralysis and Internet Outages Emerge as Top Business Black Swans

The Three Pillars of Digital Infrastructure Risk Management

The Insurance Industry

Perspective | My Father, the Jazz Legend Who Never Was: Why AI Prefers a Good Lie to the Truth

MGA Deals Surge as Scale and Specialization Drive Growth

Nick Abraham of Amwins Global Risks Talks to Risk & Insurance

How Interconnected Risk Is Reshaping the Insurance Landscape

Court: Broken Glass Could Be a ‘Pollutant’ Under School’s Insurance Policy

Opinion | The No-Vax Tax

Claims & The Law

MFA Misconfiguration Is the Costliest Point of Failure in Manufacturing Cyber Claims

5 Questions for MSIG USA's Ron Morrison

Secondary Perils Drive Record Aggregate Insured Losses Across North America in 2025

Organized Crime Reshapes Cargo Theft as Impersonation Tactics Mature Into Scalable Threat

Q1 2026 Natural Catastrophe Losses Fall Well Below Average, Leaving Insurers in Strong Position

Medical Malpractice Claim Severity Escalating as Social Inflation Drives Casualty Costs Higher

The Risk Profession

Jeff Green Discusses Innovation, Challenges and Leading the Charge in Public Risk Management

From Brooklyn Bookshelves to Building Resilience: Lesli Rice on Mentorship, Market Shifts and Modern Risk

From Nurse to Risk Leader, Nicole Patterson Champions People First in Risk Management

From Tree-Cutting to Corporate Risk: Hunter Falk on Evolving Roles, Emerging Risks and Everyday Heroism in Risk Management

From Lifeguard to Chief Risk Officer: RIMS 2025 President Kristen Peed Shares Her Journey in Risk Management

Penn State's Jared Wise on Risk Management in Higher Education and Cyber's Impact on the Industry

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