Recalled units across five industries jumped to 941.2 million in H1 2026 from 211.3 million in H1 2025, putting 2026 on pace to top 1 billion units for the first time since 2022, according to Sedgwick.

Speed to care and triage still separate high-performing claims programs even as AI adoption accelerates, according to CorVel.

The line has outperformed the broader property & casualty industry by more than 20 percentage points annually over the past four years, according to AM Best.

190 lawsuits against corporate defendants produced verdicts of $10 million or more last year, a 40.7% jump over 2024, according to Marathon Strategies.

Most small and mid-sized companies got scant explanation for their latest renewal and rarely shopped it, leaving nearly half paying the first number insurers offered, according to Ignition Benefits.

Premiums fell for every account size in the second quarter of 2026, the first time that has happened in 34 quarters, according to The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers.

Only about half of companies assess supplier risk exposure and roughly one-fifth have a climate adaptation plan, leaving hidden vulnerabilities buried deep in value chains, according to Deloitte.

Physician payment rates rebound after five years of decline, while facility and equipment updates stay steady, according to NCCI analysis.

Average premium renewal rates fell quarter over quarter for every major commercial line except workers’ compensation, according to the Ivans Index.

Securities class action filings jumped to 121 in H1 2026 from 93 in the previous six months, with AI-related cases and mega-dollar-loss litigation fueling the surge, according to Cornerstone Research and Stanford Law School.

More than a third of employers reported health plan premium increases of 10% or more at their latest renewal, and pharmacy and voluntary benefits are facing similar scrutiny, according to Gallagher.

A 2026 breach at an automotive tech provider left up to 150,000 drivers unable to use their vehicles, illustrating how third-party digital failures can expose automakers to liability, according to Munich Re and TÜV SÜD.

Quarterly insurtech funding hit $2.44 billion in the second quarter of 2026, with 99.1% of that capital flowing to AI-focused companies, according to Gallagher Re.

Social engineering accounted for 85.3% of incurred cyber insurance losses in the first half of 2026, up from 17.7% in the first half of 2024, according to Resilience.

Fire drives the majority of insured data center losses even as natural catastrophe exposure, lithium-ion battery risk and construction complexity reshape the sector’s risk profile, according to Allianz Commercial.

Cumulative trauma claims rose from 9.1% of all California workers’ compensation claims in 2018 to 16.5% in 2025, with the growth spreading statewide, the California Workers’ Compensation Institute found.

Prices for primary directors’ and officers’ liability policies with the same limit and deductible rose 0.6% in the second quarter of 2026 compared with a year earlier, Aon reports.

More than eight in 10 U.S. executives say they are more worried about their business’s future at midyear than they were at the end of 2025, Sentry reports.

Medical inflation softened broadly in the second quarter, with the NCCI Workers Compensation Weighted Medical Index falling to 1.0% year over year in June.

The Baldwin Group’s Q2 Market Pulse ties the property downturn to falling reinsurance costs and a quiet hurricane outlook, even as litigation and tariffs keep casualty severity high.