Full content: Ryan Specialty Underwriting Managers, the underwriting management division of Ryan Specialty, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, promoted three members of the Ryan Financial Lines (RFL) executive team. Deborah Egel-Fergus, president of lawyers E&O – Egel-Fergus most recently served as vice president …

Full content: Looking for deals, consumers are increasingly shopping year-round for home and auto insurance, bucking seasonal trends and insurer expectations. Elevated insurance shopping trends seen throughout 2024 and earlier in 2025 continued through the end of the year, prompting questions about …

Full content: A Georgia bill that would bring larger insurer fines, more fraud enforcement and more wind-mitigation funding now moves to state Senate, where it is expected to pass in the next few weeks. The Georgia House of Representatives late last month …

Full content: A crew guided a York County barge equipped with a giant sea vacuum across the waters of Wells Harbor last week. One contractor nudged the so-called dredge in a tiny tugboat. Another manned the equipment, which sucked up sand from …

Full content: Two transgender men are suing Kansas over a new law that invalidated their driver’s licenses and about 1,700 others for reflecting people’s gender identities and not their sex assigned at birth, arguing that the measure is “dehumanizing.” The men filed …

Full content: The Louisiana Department of Insurance is entering a partnership with the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) and digital intelligence company 4WARN to combat third-party litigation funding (TPLF) marketing tactics. The department said the partnership is the first of its kind …

Full content: Terrorism insurance pricing in the U.S. is hovering at an all-time low — a surprising reality at a time when geopolitical tensions, domestic extremism, and global instability dominate headlines. It comes down to the age-old dynamic of supply and demand, …

Full content: Florida-based NextEra Energy Inc., one of the world’s largest electric utilities, has settled a class-action lawsuit, agreeing to pay $8 million to some 20,000 employees who said the company had mishandled retirement funds. Plaintiffs’ attorneys’ fees should not exceed 33% …

Full content: London’s marine insurance market has widened the area in the Gulf it deems as high risk as the conflict in the Middle East escalates, according to an advisory issued on Tuesday. Guidance from the Joint War Committee, which comprises syndicate …

Full content: The Iran conflict has thrust container shipping from an industry bracing for a capacity glut to another potential “black swan” supply crunch. That paradigm shift dawned on the more than 3,500 importers, freight forwarders and ocean carriers gathered this week …

Full content: The father of Laken Riley, who was killed on the campus of the University of Georgia by a Venezuelan man who lived nearby, is accusing the state university system of negligence that he says led to his daughter’s death. Jason …

Full content: A Delaware judge has ruled insurers do not have a duty to defend Meta Platforms in the thousands of lawsuits that allege its Facebook and Instagram platforms harm children. Superior Court Judge Sheldon K. Rennie ruled Meta’s insurance companies are …

Full content: As the U.S.-Israeli air war against Iran widened on Monday with no end in sight, focus shifted to the impact on airlines. Operations have been disrupted for a third day and revenue losses are not covered by insurers, analysts and …

Full content: Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit warned of prolonged disruptions to its services after revealing that drone strikes damaged three of its data centers in the Middle East in recent days. Amazon Web Services Inc. said for the first time that drones …