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Insurance industry news and analysis, published daily from the United States: carriers and reinsurance, claims, regulation, insurtech and professional employer organizations. Original reporting and analysis alongside a curated feed of the day's coverage from the wider trade press, each item linking to the publication that reported it.
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- RenaissanceRe Declares $0.41 Dividend, Refreshes $750M Buyback Program Carriers
RenaissanceRe Holdings has declared a quarterly dividend and renewed its share repurchase authorization at up to $750 million. The moves signal the Bermuda-based reinsurer's confidence in its...
- Large Employers Tighten GLP-1 Coverage as Healthcare Costs Rise PEO
Brown & Brown's 2027 Employer Health and Benefits Strategy Survey finds that larger employers are increasingly restricting coverage of GLP-1 medications used for weight loss as healthcare costs...
- RiverStone takes on $400M SiriusPoint run-off in first deal between the two firms Carriers
RiverStone International has completed a loss portfolio transfer with SiriusPoint, assuming roughly $400 million in legacy reinsurance liabilities. The deal is the first between the two companies...
- Democratic Congress Gains Oversight Leverage Over Trump Global Health Cuts Regulation
Democrats winning control of Congress in the 2026 midterms gives them new tools to scrutinize the Trump administration's dismantling of U.S. global health programs, including the closure of USAID....
- Insurers Routinely Limit Addiction Treatment Authorizations. Employers Can Push Back. PEO
Health insurers may initially authorize addiction treatment for as few as four to seven days, requiring additional reviews before coverage continues. These decisions can disrupt care when patients...
- AI Boosts Employee Productivity but Leaves HR Struggling to Identify Burnout PEO
Artificial intelligence is helping employees complete routine tasks more efficiently, but increased productivity is also raising employer expectations. A survey highlighted by Employee Benefit...
- What Happens After a Company Joins a PEO? PEO
Once a business signs with a Professional Employer Organization (PEO), the transition begins with employee onboarding, payroll setup, benefits enrollment and the coordination of employment-related...
- The PEO Acronyms Every Business Owner Should Know PEO
PEO proposals contain terminology covering employment structures, payroll taxes, health insurance and workers' compensation. Understanding these common acronyms helps business owners compare...
- Aon Extends IBEX to UK and EEA With 100-Day Interim Breach Coverage Carriers
Aon has expanded its IBEX transaction insurance product to cover the United Kingdom and European Economic Area, adding 100 days of interim breach protection for deals between signing and closing....
- RiverStone Closes $1.6bn Reserve Transfer with QBE in Second Major Deal in Two Years Carriers
RiverStone International has completed a $1.6 billion loss portfolio transfer with QBE Insurance Group, covering discontinued North American and European business lines. The deal, first announced...
- HDI Global Wins Lloyd's Underwriting Clearance for Syndicate 2029 Launch Carriers
HDI Global UK & Ireland has cleared the final regulatory hurdle at Lloyd's, with Permission to Underwrite granted ahead of Syndicate 2029's planned 1 January 2027 opening. The new syndicate will...
- Labor Department Proposes Five Weekly Job-Search Steps for Unemployment Claimants Regulation
The U.S. Department of Labor wants people collecting unemployment benefits to complete at least five documented job-search activities every week before their payment is issued. The proposal would...
- Jane Kim Wins California Insurance Commissioner Race With Sweeping Reform Agenda Regulation
California voters have elected Jane Kim, a former San Francisco supervisor, as the state's next insurance commissioner. Kim campaigned on creating a government-run disaster insurance program that...
- GAO Warns U.S. Has No Strategy for Global Aging's Security and Economic Risks Carriers
A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office finds that the global population is aging faster than governments are prepared to handle, with serious consequences for labor markets,...
- Childcare benefit gaps leave employers exposed as holiday disruptions near PEO
A widening mismatch between what working parents need and what employers actually provide is coming into sharper focus as the holiday season approaches. Benefit leaders are under pressure to close...
- Workers value a guaranteed lunch break more than extra vacation days PEO
A survey by corporate catering company ezCater finds that 35% of workers would rather have a protected lunch break than additional paid time off. More than half skip lunch at least once a week,...
- Allied World seeks $325m cat bond as maturing deal rolls into three-tranche structure Carriers
Allied World Assurance Company is returning to the catastrophe bond market with its largest issuance yet, targeting $325 million across three tranches of notes under a new 2001 CAT Re Ltd....
- Folksam CEO Ylva Wessén takes over as ICMIF Chair for four-year term Carriers
The International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation has appointed Ylva Wessén, President and CEO of Swedish insurer Folksam, as its new Chair. She succeeds Rob Wesseling of Canada's...
- AI May Fix What Annual Performance Reviews Have Long Broken PEO
Annual performance reviews have been criticized for decades as subjective, infrequent and shaped by favoritism. Employee Benefit News reports that AI tools are now pushing HR departments to...
- VA Maps the Daily Barriers Keeping Homeless Veterans Off the Path to Housing Regulation
A new explainer from the Department of Veterans Affairs details the overlapping daily obstacles that prevent homeless veterans from accessing stable housing, even when they are employed. The piece...
- Jane Kim Wins California Insurance Commissioner Race Over Ben Allen Regulation
Jane Kim has declared victory in the race to become California's next insurance commissioner, defeating fellow Democrat Ben Allen by more than 400,000 votes. Kim, who campaigned on a publicly...
- Berkshire Hathaway Q3 underwriting earnings drop 43% as GEICO and primary group weigh Carriers
Berkshire Hathaway's insurance and reinsurance operations posted a sharp fall in underwriting profit for the third quarter of 2026, dragged down by GEICO and a weaker primary insurance result. A...
- HUD Reports Record Drop in Homelessness, Shifts Policy to Treatment First Regulation
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says the 2026 Point-in-Time count recorded the largest single-year decline in homelessness in American history, with roughly 698,000 people...
- Medicare's 2027 Drug Payment Cut Shifts Money From Safety-Net to For-Profit Hospitals Regulation
A finalized CMS rule will slash what Medicare pays hospitals for drugs purchased at a discount under the 340B program, cutting reimbursement by roughly a third starting January 1, 2027. The...
- John Kellington Named CEO of Insurance Standards Body ACORD Insurtech
John Kellington, a former carrier CIO who helped build ACORD's foundational standards, is returning to lead the organization. His appointment signals a push to use the AI moment as a prompt for...
- Betterment Pushes Federal Officials to Digitize 401(k) Rollovers PEO
Nearly half of 401(k) rollovers started on Betterment's platform never get completed, and the company says outdated paperwork requirements are largely to blame. Betterment has written to federal...
- SiriusPoint posts $990.6M in Q3 GWP as underwriting income climbs to $75.9M Carriers
SiriusPoint Ltd. grew its gross written premium by nearly 14% in the third quarter of 2026, driven by surety and professional liability, while underwriting income rose year on year despite a...
- R&W insurance payouts hit record highs as Liberty Mutual flags terms review Carriers
Representations and warranties insurance, which protects buyers in mergers and acquisitions deals against undisclosed problems with the business they are buying, is paying out more often and in...
- SEC Raises Asset Thresholds That Define Small Investment Firms Under Federal Rules Regulation
The Securities and Exchange Commission has updated the asset-based thresholds that determine which investment companies, investment advisers, and business development companies count as "small...
- Swiss Re poaches Aon veteran Lori Goltermann for new commercial chief role Carriers
Swiss Re has created a Chief Commercial Officer position within its Corporate Solutions division and filled it with Lori Goltermann, who spent more than 30 years at Aon. The hire, effective...
- ACORD 25 Certificate of Liability Form Updated to 2025/12 Version Regulation
ACORD has released a new version of its standard Certificate of Liability Insurance form, and two major errors and omissions programs have already updated their authorization letters and templates...
- Trump Accounts Are Now an Employer Benefit. Here Is How They Work. PEO
A new type of children's savings account, created under federal law and called a Trump Account, can now be offered by employers as a workplace benefit, with pretax payroll deductions and employer...
- Windward buys Azimut.ai to track vessels that go dark at sea Insurtech
Maritime intelligence firm Windward has acquired Azimut.ai, a company whose cameras identify ships at ports and chokepoints even when those ships switch off their tracking signals. The deal adds...
- EFAMA pushes back on ESMA plan to restrict cat bonds in EU retail funds Carriers
Europe's main fund industry lobby has told EU policymakers to leave catastrophe bonds alone, warning that capping their use inside UCITS funds would hurt investors and shrink the market's capacity...
- UN Launches Disaster Insurance Program to Fund Aid Before Crises Hit Carriers
The United Nations has unveiled an insurance program designed to release emergency funding before disasters strike, rather than after. Structured by Gallagher Re and led by Liberty Mutual, the...
- APAC Reinsurance Buyers Gain Leverage as Market Softens, but Risk Still Drives Outcomes Carriers
Reinsurance buyers across Asia Pacific are finding more capacity and greater competition, but brokers at OneGlobal warn that softer pricing does not mean softer risk. Territory, loss history and...
- Boston Mutual Life Adds Southeast Sales Director to Grow Broker Network Carriers
Boston Mutual Life Insurance Company has appointed Sean Duggan as Regional Sales Director for Georgia and Northeast Florida, expanding its workplace-benefits sales leadership in the Southeast....
- Carriers Move to Close AI-Driven Cyber Gap Hitting Small Businesses Carriers
Small and medium-sized businesses are increasingly in the crosshairs of AI-assisted fraud, and many lack the cyber insurance coverage to absorb the hit. Travelers, Beazley and Coalition are among...
- Labor Department Opens $200M Apprenticeship Fund Paying Up to $6,000 Per Trainee PEO
The U.S. Department of Labor has opened applications for direct payments to employers who take on registered apprentices in shipbuilding, semiconductors, nuclear energy and other priority sectors....
- Eagle Hill data shows Gen X and boomer job satisfaction sliding PEO
A new study from Eagle Hill Consulting finds that satisfaction and retention scores are falling among Gen X and baby boomer employees, two groups that carry significant institutional knowledge. HR...