Insurer Nationwide looks to its customers in taking a new approach to rural property monitoring through a relationship with Barn Owl, a provider of solar-powered, cellular-connected remote camera systems designed specifically for farms, ranches and rural agribusiness operations. Nationwide said …

Cincinnati Financial Corporation announced that John S. Kellington, chief information officer and executive vice president for its lead subsidiary, The Cincinnati Insurance Company, will retire August 7. Kellington joined the company in 2010 as a proven insurance and technology leader. …

Poor maintenance is often a factor when skydiving planes crash like one did in Missouri on Sunday, and the National Transportation Safety Board has said in past investigations that weak oversight of the skydiving industry can allow problems to go …

The threat of floods continues across Texas, northeast Mexico and the US Gulf Coast as tropical moisture pours into the region and the odds rise that the Atlantic’s first named storm of the year could develop late Tuesday or early …

Mostly complicated risks are presented with the proliferation of data centers across the U.S. to bolster critical infrastructure for artificial intelligence. A new report from AM Best outlines “substantial insurance demand” evolving for the warehouse-sized facilities of computer servers. “With …

Almost all of the world’s children are exposed to at least one climate hazard, with as many as 1.8 billion put in danger by droughts and 1.2 billion by extreme heat, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a …

The city of Baltimore and about 11 private entities including dockworkers and small businesses should not be allowed to collect for any economic losses from the collapse of Baltimore’s Key Bridge in 2024, the owner and manager of the Dali …

Allianz SE has emerged as the frontrunner to acquire HSBC Holdings Plc’s Singapore insurance unit, people familiar with the matter said. The German insurer is the likeliest buyer for HSBC Life Singapore Pte after outbidding other industry players, according to …

An interim US-Iran deal to end their months-long war and potentially fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz is unlikely to immediately ease fertilizer flows as shipowners wait for more details to assess the safety of transits. A vital conduit for …

The battle between high-protein yogurts has entered the courtroom. Danone SA’s US subsidiary sued Chobani in US court on Monday, alleging that Chobani is improperly marketing how much protein is in a serving of its yogurt. The lawsuit, filed in …

Doubts swirled around the U.S.-Iran interim deal to end the war in the Middle East as shippers said it could take weeks for confidence to return after any reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and fundamental questions remained unanswered. U.S. …

Ukraine is accelerating reforms to align its banking and insurance sectors with EU standards by 2028 despite wartime challenges, to buttress investor confidence and deepen economic integration with Europe, its central bank governor said. The European Union launched formal talks …

Insurance leaders say today’s risk environment is creating challenges that are more difficult to predict than ever before. This is leading insurers to rethink how they assess risk and make the right decisions without sacrificing speed and efficiency. “Risk is …

Gallagher is expanding its US retail brokerage capabilities with the appointment of three new practice leaders. Evan Hessel, managing director, casualty, joined Gallagher as part of the Woodruff Sawyer acquisition in 2025. He has extensive experience in developing risk financing …

Microsoft has been sued by shareholders who accused the company of defrauding them and inflating its stock price by failing to disclose slowing growth in its Azure cloud business and the need to spend billions of dollars on AI infrastructure. …

More than a decade after announcing plans for a large real estate development in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, technology investor Bob Zangrillo is reviving the project, now pitching it as a home for the city’s growing roster of AI companies. …

A high-ranking Mississippi Insurance Department official has been placed on leave after allegations that he and his wife diverted more than $90 million from a credit union that is now in receivership. Chad Bridges, director of financial and market regulation …

CVS is paying $36.5 million for submitting false claims to the Medi-Cal program for excessive dispensing of insulin pens. A settlement pursued by California Attorney General Rob Bonta in collaboration with the United States Department of Justice with CVS Pharmacy, …

Any advertisements in New York that feature artificial intelligence-generated people in place of actors will now be violating state law if they don’t clearly label that they have used a “synthetic performer.” The law, signed in December by Gov. Kathy …

A county with one of the highest volumes of insurance fraud cases in Washington has filed its first changes under a new agreement with the state’s insurance regulator. The Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office filed insurance fraud charges in Pierce …