3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1303+ words) The pooled employer plan (PEP) market is in the midst of a rapid expansion. According to Cerulli Associates, the number of PEPs more than tripled between 2021 and 2024, and adoption continues to accelerate, particularly among smaller employers who find the administrative…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (431+ words) Every previous wave of digital change in insurance has run into the same obstacle: trust. Consumers hesitated to move to digital channels, and they hesitated to share data in exchange for better pricing, largely because they didn't trust the systems…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (592+ words) Achmea Farm Insurance has opened a permanent office in Tamworth, New South Wales, placing a direct insurer’s operation in a regional centre already contested by specialist agricultural brokers. The office opened on September 4, 2026, with around 50 clients, farmers, and industry stakeholders…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (341+ words) Van insurance premiums fell 4.5% in the three months to August. That ended a period of flat pricing and resumed the downward trend running since the market peaked in October 2024. Quoted prices are now 11% below last year and around 16% lower than…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (546+ words) A new report from Morningstar DBRS which marks 25 years since the September 11 attacks found that the federal terrorism backstop built in their aftermath has proven durable for conventional terrorism risk but faces a genuinely unresolved question when it comes to…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (335+ words) Most insurers are using AI to improve today's performance, but fewer than one in four are scaling it to reinvent their future business, according to new Accenture research. The report, How Insurers Drive Revenue by Deploying AI with Intent, found…...

4+ day, 32+ min ago   (339+ words) Ask a terrorism underwriter and a cyber underwriter the same question what's the one loss that could actually break you?, and increasingly you get the same shape of answer: something that hits everyone at once, spreads faster than the policy…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (375+ words) Insurance carriers and related activities accounted for most of that drop, losing 6,300 jobs on their own. Over the 12 months from August 2025 to August 2026, finance-and-insurance employment fell from 6,733,400 to 6,651,100, a decline of roughly 82,000. For an industry that has spent years marketing…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (267+ words) The US property and casualty industry nearly tripled its net underwriting income in the first half of 2026. The result reflects a market where property and casualty lines are moving in sharply different directions. Net underwriting income reached $31.2 billion in the…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (399+ words) That warning lands against a global cyber insurance market that remains small relative to the exposure it is meant to cover. Munich Re's Cyber Insurance Risks and Trends report put global premiums at $15.3 billion in 2024, with North America accounting for…...