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Insurance M&A Pace Down 15% in First Half 2026: OPTIS

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Insurance agency mergers & acquisitions in the first six months of 2026 were down 15% compared with the same period last year. As it did in its first-quarter report, investment banking and financial consulting firm OPTIS Partners said a downward …
Chad Hemenway

Insurers Must Defend Hotels Accused of Sex Trafficking of Minors

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Insurance companies cannot invoke “overriding public policy” in order to refuse to defend insured hotel owners and managers accused of enabling and profiting off of sex trafficking of minors, even though the state has criminalized such trafficking. “[N]either an insurer’s …
Andrew G. Simpson