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Global insured natural catastrophe losses totaled at least $46 billion in the first half of 2026, 28% below the 10-year average, Gallagher Re reports.
Total real premium growth will ease sharply from 2025’s cyclical peak even as insurers become more critical shock absorbers in a fracturing global economy, Swiss Re Institute found.
Insurers posted a $431 million underwriting loss in 2025 as incurred losses and expenses reached 102% of earned premium, the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California found.
Aging poles and overland lines pose billion-dollar liability and business interruption risks that often fall hardest on companies that do not own the failing infrastructure, according to Allianz Commercial.
The latest people news in the industry today.
Abundant capacity and disciplined underwriting are giving buyers greater leverage over pricing and structure, though risk differentiation increasingly determines outcomes, according to Risk Placement Services.
From transparency and collaboration to proactive problem solving, Jeni VerMeulen explains the qualities that distinguish true partnerships in today’s evolving workers’ compensation landscape.
Court rules employees can receive benefits for third-party attacks if job duties or work environment increased their risk, rejecting narrow focus on specific task being performed at time of injury.
Average premium growth slowed to just 0.2% in the first half of 2026, signaling an end to the hard market, according to Alera Group.
Karen London, President, Specialty Casualty, QBE North America, discusses the evolution of the casualty market, the importance of underwriting discipline, and how QBE is building a specialty casualty platform designed for long-term stability and sustainable growth.
His work contributed to MEC’s operational risk management framework by enhancing visibility, consistency and governance across complex data processes.
A widening spectrum of risks is eroding food, beverage and agriculture companies’ confidence in their ability to manage them, according to WTW’s Global Food, Beverage & Agriculture Risk Report 2026.
Supreme Judicial Court upholds insurance commissioner’s authority to reject proposed rate changes but faults him for failing to ‘show your work.’
Employer benefit plan exposure to cell and gene therapies is limited by operational and clinical barriers, but those constraints are beginning to erode, Lockton reports.
NSC-funded emerging technologies demonstrated practical potential for workplace MSD prevention, according to the National Safety Council’s MSD Solutions Lab.
Cutting data processing and reporting times by over 50% meant leveraging existing Microsoft tools to build an in-house, automated workflow system instead of purchasing a costly RMIS.
Rapid growth in a high-litigation environment can send workers’ compensation costs spiraling. Here’s how Stephen Grimaud built a scalable program that bucked the trend.
How one risk leader built a governance framework that turned reporting into a decision-making advantage.
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