Workplace violence has risen steadily across most major industry sectors since 2011, with health care and social assistance remaining the epicenter of the problem, according to the NCCI.

With up to $15 billion in capacity available, Willis says the real challenge is knowing how much coverage data infrastructure actually needs.

Neglected maintenance is one of the largest and most overlooked challenges in the insurance and property sectors, with a strong correlation to eventual insurance claims.

AM Best maintains a stable outlook for the global cyber insurance segment, citing robust demand and favorable profitability even as premium growth slows and competition intensifies.

Artificial intelligence has the potential to reshape distribution, underwriting and productivity in ways that decades of digitization never did, according to McKinsey & Company.

Agency and brokerage acquisitions fell to 292 in the first half of 2026, the weakest start to a year in a decade, according to OPTIS Partners.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The U.S. cyber insurance market is facing mounting losses and structural shifts as price declines outpace premium growth, according to AM Best.

Unlimited payroll, the near-universal exposure base for workers’ compensation insurance, may not scale proportionally with expected losses across wage levels, according to the National Council on Compensation Insurance.

A California verdict signals a shift from content-based claims to design-based liability, reshaping insurance exposure across industries, according to Lockton.

Asset managers and insurance focus on single-asset risk scores while missing the hidden dependencies between buildings, infrastructure networks, and communities.

Global reinsurer capital climbed to an all-time high at the start of 2026, driving double-digit price reductions and improved terms for insurance buyers at mid-year renewals, according to Aon.