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Compounding forces including litigation funding, nuclear verdicts and aggressive trial strategies are pushing medical professional liability severity well beyond general inflation, S&P Global Market Intelligence found.
Average payments for air ambulance transport in workers’ compensation climbed sharply between 2013 and 2024, with wide variation across states, according to the Workers Compensation Research Institute.
Global economic losses from natural disasters reached $37 billion in the first quarter of 2026, well below the 21st-century average, while insured losses tracked near historical norms, according to Aon.
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A joint report from the Insurance Information Institute and Fenix24 found that insurers, despite setting cybersecurity standards for policyholders, still have vulnerabilities in their own defenses.
Jeff Green, the risk manager for Larimer County, Colo. Recounts his years in the profession and why risk management ended up being such a good fit.
Poor communication contributes to nearly 70% of workplace incidents, underscoring the business case for fostering psychological safety in construction and other high-risk industries, Gallagher Bassett says.
Nonfatal workplace assaults climbed steadily from 2011 through 2022, driven overwhelmingly by violence in health care and social assistance settings, according to NCCI.
A year-end analysis of ClaimSearch data by Verisk found that quieter weather drove broad declines in claims activity even as the Los Angeles wildfires became the costliest on record.
A report by the California Earthquake Authority concludes that the state’s current systems for managing wildfire risk are failing ratepayers, insurance policyholders, and disaster survivors.
Despite a 3% increase in global cyber claims frequency, average losses in 2025 dropped 19% year over year as organizations became more effective at limiting breach damage, according to Coalition.
Only 7% of property insurance carriers have achieved scalable AI success in claims operations, according to a Sedgwick report.