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Coral Gables, Florida Tops Beverly Hills as Ritziest Home Market in US
Apr 15 2024 // Floridians with homes in the ritziest neighborhoods that include Coral Gables and Naples are experiencing the nation’s biggest increases in real estate wealth as markets in the Sunshine State supplant those in...
Fragmented Europe to Make New Bid for US-Style Capital Market
Apr 15 2024 // After years of struggling to raise capital in European Union markets, Mews – a hospitality software firm with Czech roots – finally secured funding by registering as a Dutch company. For its next step, Mews is...
2023 Underwriting Losses Improve but Persist in US P/C Industry
Apr 15 2024 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry recorded a slight underwriting improvement in 2023, but losses persisted, according to a new AM Best report. Preliminary data from the global credit rating agency shows that...
Travelers Survey: Distracted Drivers Making US Roads More Dangerous
Apr 12 2024 // Nearly 80% of respondents to a recent Travelers survey said inattentive driving is more of a problem now than it has been in past years. Travelers noted the pandemic triggered a new wave of dangerous habits. The 2024...
US Senate Committee to Hold Hearing on Boeing Safety Culture Report
Apr 12 2024 // The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee said it would hold a hearing next week with members of an expert panel that released a report in February criticizing Boeing’s safety culture and calling for significant...
Europe Stands Firm Against US-Driven ESG Backlash
Apr 12 2024 // Steady investor demand in Europe for environmental and socially responsible investments and wide-ranging regulation are helping Europe’s finance industry withstand political pressures that have pushed some U.S. peers...
Soaring Insurance Costs Hit as US Buyers Finally Get a Break on Car Prices
Apr 12 2024 // A new form of sticker shock has hit American car buyers like Darin Davis. In January, when the 56-year-old Dallas real estate agent renewed the insurance on the pearly-white 2024 Cadillac XT4 that he bought just a few...
US Cyber Agency Warns of Compromise at Sisense Data Firm
Apr 11 2024 // The US lead agency for federal cybersecurity is warning that Sisense Inc., a data analytics company, has suffered a compromise that could expose customer credentials and cryptographic secrets. Sisense provides AI-driven...
EPA Sets US’s First Drinking Water Standards to Limit Toxic PFAS
Apr 11 2024 // About 100 million people will be exposed to fewer cancer-causing “forever chemicals” under the country’s first-ever drinking water standards for PFAS finalized Wednesday by the EPA, White House officials...
US Wildfires Are Getting Bigger and More Complex, Prompting Changes in Firefighting
Apr 11 2024 // It’s shaping up to be a long wildfire season, with Texas already seeing its largest blaze in recorded history and firefighters becoming overwhelmed with recent blazes in Virginia. Just in the first three months of...
US Senate Votes to Reject Rule to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions on Highways
Apr 11 2024 // The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed a resolution that would overturn a federal agency’s rule requiring states to measure and set declining targets for greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles using the national highway...
US Investigators Interview Cargo Ship Personnel in Maryland Bridge Collapse
Apr 11 2024 // U.S. National Transportation Safety Board chair Jennifer Homendy said at a Senate hearing Wednesday that investigators had conducted interviews with key cargo ship personnel in the investigation of the March 26 Baltimore...
US CDC Says Bird Flu Risk Low, but Asks States to Be Ready With Testing
Apr 10 2024 // The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday bird flu risk to the public remains low even as it asked the state public health officials to be prepared to respond. The agency asked for plans to...
Swiss Women Win Big in Landmark Climate Case. Where Do US Climate Cases Stand?
Apr 10 2024 // A landmark climate change ruling from the European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday found that the Swiss government had violated the human rights of its citizens by failing to do enough to combat climate change, in a case...
Israel Cyber Firm Claroty Eyes 2025 US IPO at $3.5B Value: Report
Apr 9 2024 // Israeli cyber security startup Claroty is preparing a possible U.S. initial public offering in 2025 at a valuation of $3.5 billion, the Calcalist financial daily reported on Tuesday. Calcalist, without citing sources, said...
If US Inflation Reflected Rising Home Insurance Costs, It’d Be Even Higher
Apr 9 2024 // If the rising price of homeowners insurance were factored into the US Consumer Price Index — a key metric of inflation — it could have added 80 basis points, or about 0.8%, to last year’s CPI increase of 3.4%,...
Inflation Contributes to Rising Loss Costs for US Commercial P/C Insurers: Fitch
Apr 9 2024 // Inflation is bringing rising loss costs for US commercial property/casualty insurers, according to Fitch Ratings, which reviewed reports from three US insurers — Cincinnati Financial Corp., HCC Insurance Holdings...
US Dog-Related Injury Claims Hit $1.12 Billion in 2023: Triple-I, State Farm Report
Apr 9 2024 // US insurers paid out $1.12 billion in dog-related injury claims in 2023 according to the Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I) and State Farm. The number of dog bite and related injury claims was 19,062 in 2023, an...
Lancashire Launches US Excess & Surplus Lines Carrier
Apr 8 2024 // Lancashire Insurance, a subsidiary of Lancashire Group, has been launched as an excess and surplus insurer in the US, expanding the company’s international footprint. Lancashire Group, the Bermuda-based Lloyd’s...
Viewpoint: US E&S Sector Is Booming…But Is it Too Much Business to Handle?
Apr 8 2024 // Executive Summary: Specialty insurance has experienced significant growth in recent years. Greg Gaydos, senior business development executive at Zywave, looks at the reasons and advises how to best take advantage of its...
