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Texas Faces Freeze While Weekend Snow Risks Rise in New York
Jan 21 2026 // A massive winter storm will sweep across a huge swath of the US starting Friday, freezing Texas before roaring up the East Coast, where New York City and Boston are seeing a strong chance of heavy snow by Sunday. Air...
CEO Revenue Confidence Hits 5-Year Low: PwC Survey
Jan 21 2026 // Only three in 10 chief executives are confident in their companies’ revenue growth prospects over the next year, the lowest level in five years, according to a global survey by professional services group PwC...
Alabama DOI Report Shows Litigation Is Up, Raising Liability Costs and Rates
Jan 21 2026 // A new report from the Alabama Department of Insurance shows claims litigation and big verdicts are on the rise in the state, inflating loss costs for insurers and putting upward pressure on auto and commercial liability...
Texas Forecast to Be Top Market for Data Centers
Jan 20 2026 // Texas is poised to become the largest home for data centers in the country within the next three years as artificial intelligence continues to boom, according to a report published Tuesday. Bloom Energy, a California-based...
Florida OIR Triples the Size of Citizens’ Rate Decrease
Jan 20 2026 // With takeouts continuing at a steady pace and more carriers working the Florida property insurance market, state regulators saw fit to more than triple the size of Citizens’ Property Insurance Corp. recent rate...
Driver Fails to Back Up Claim That Tesla Touchscreen Defect Caused Accident
Jan 15 2026 // Vehicle manufacturer Tesla has won dismissal of a product liability lawsuit claiming that a defective touchscreen in a 2021 Tesla caused an accident. Judge Nelson Roman in federal district court in New York granted Tesla...
Trade and War Worries Haunt Davos as World Seen ‘on a Precipice’: WEF Survey
Jan 14 2026 // A global backdrop increasingly threatened by trade disputes and inter-state conflict is how respondents in a World Economic Forum survey see things panning out in 2026. The annual poll of 1,300 leaders and experts by the...
Consumer Acceptance of Telematics Widens, Says Survey
Jan 14 2026 // Consumer acceptance of telematics technology in auto insurance is growing, creating opportunity for insurers who can cater to tech-driven drivers who crave personalized pricing and service. Today, 82% of policyholders view...
2025 Among World’s Three Hottest Years on Record: WMO
Jan 14 2026 // Last year was among the planet’s three warmest on record, the World Meteorological Organization said on Wednesday, as EU scientists also confirmed average temperatures have now exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius of global...
Drones Hit Two Tankers in Black Sea, Driving Up War Insurance Costs
Jan 14 2026 // Drones struck two oil tankers in the Black Sea on Tuesday, including one chartered by U.S. oil major Chevron, the companies involved said, as they sailed toward a terminal on the Russian coast. Both were en route to the...
Markets/Coverages: FM Bumps Up Limits for Data Centers to $5B
Jan 13 2026 // Commercial property insurer FM announced a significant increase in capacity to support its global FM Intellium clients and the data and power generation ecosystem. FM can now provide up to $5 billion in capacity for the...
Wildfires, Storms Fuel 2025 Insured Losses of $108 Billion: Munich Re Report
Jan 13 2026 // Global insured losses from natural disasters fell to $108 billion last year, Munich Re said in a report on Tuesday. That compared with an inflation-adjusted $147 billion in 2024, the German reinsurer said, as the U.S....
Georgia Republicans Move to Scrap State Income Tax by 2032 Despite Concerns
Jan 12 2026 // Eliminating state income taxes sounds great to many voters, but Republicans backing the push in multiple states still face questions about whether such big tax cuts can be made without raising other taxes or sharply...
Goldman Sachs Warns US Grids Face Power Crunch by 2030
Jan 9 2026 // Almost all US power grids will lack critical spare capacity by 2030 as demand surges to supply data centers, with bottlenecks threatening to hand China an edge in the artificial-intelligence boom, according to an analyst...
Progressive Approved for Personal Auto Rate Decreases in Louisiana
Jan 8 2026 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple has approved Progressive Security Insurance Company’s request for a 6.6% average rate decrease on its over 270,000 private passenger auto insurance policyholders and...
Trump Aims Bumper Aid at US Rice Farmers Facing Bleakest Outlook
Jan 7 2026 // The new year may mark the last time Texas farmer LG Raun plants a rice crop. “I guess I’m going to be the one that’s going to screw up the tradition of growing Raun family rice,” said the...
Private Equity Firms Expected to Unleash Middle-Market M&A Deals, Survey Says
Jan 7 2026 // M&A activity is expected to rise among midsize companies as private equity firms become more willing to do deals, according to a Citizens Financial survey of about 400 companies. Executives at middle market companies...
German Insurers Report Below-Average Natural Disaster Claims in 2025
Jan 6 2026 // Heavy rain, flooding, storms and hail – also known as severe convective storms (SCS) – brought below-average claims for German insurers in 2025, defying the long-term trend for such perils, given the impact of climate...
Insurance Journal Launches Annual Agency Salary Survey: Participate Now
Jan 5 2026 // Insurance Journal has opened its annual Agency Salary Survey, inviting retail insurance agency professionals across the property/casualty sector to participate. The survey is open to agency owners, principals, producers,...
The 14 Global Trends That Will Shape the Climate in 2026
Jan 2 2026 // The world is now moving into the latter half of a critical decade to fight climate change. Scientists have warned that nations need to cut carbon emissions nearly 50% by 2030 to stave off 1.5C temperature rise. The world...
