July, 2024

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Vineyard Wind Incident Is Not First Time a GE Vernova Wind Turbine Came Apart

Insurance Journal

An incident at the Vineyard Wind offshore wind energy project this week that scattered shards of fiberglass across Massachusetts beaches was the latest in a series of failures involving wind turbines built by GE Vernova.

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Wall Street Pushes Back After Activists Escalate Protests

Insurance Journal

Against a backdrop of intensifying climate protests targeting Wall Street, the heavyweights of US finance are pushing back against what they characterize as a fundamentally flawed debate.

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Insurers Tied to Apollo, KKR Buy Mortgages Outright in New Twist

Insurance Journal

Yield-hungry insurance firms are adopting an unconventional strategy: they’re skipping mortgage-backed bonds and buying the underlying whole loans outright. It’s a trend that’s picked up pace over the last few years.

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With American Mobile Cancellations, Florida Mobile Home Market Has ‘Fallen Apart’

Insurance Journal

Reinsurance in Florida’s long-stressed property insurance market was supposed to have stabilized this year – with moderate rate increases and more availability.

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Fortune 500’s Insured Losses for CrowdStrike Could Reach $1 Billion: Parametrix

Insurance Journal

The total direct financial loss facing the US Fortune 500 companies, excluding Microsoft, from the CrowdStrike outage on July 19 is $5.4 billion, modeling and insurance services firm Parametrix estimates.

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Allstate Seeking 34% Rate Hike on California Homeowners Insurance

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Allstate is seeking an increase in its California homeowners insurance premiums by an average of 34%. According to the California Department of Insurance, the Allstate homeowners filing was received by the Department on April 14, 2023.

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UK Water Companies Lambasted by Environment Agency for Sewage Releases

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Britain’s Environment Agency on Tuesday lambasted the country’s water companies for spewing sewage into rivers and seas, saying the majority of them were failing to get the basics right, as it outlined plans for a tougher regulatory approach.

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AM Best: Migration to Cat-Prone States Fuels Record HO Underwriting Losses in 2023

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The U.S. homeowners insurance segment suffered a $15.2 billion underwriting loss in 2023, more than double the loss seen in the previous year and the line’s worst underwriting results since at least 2000, according to a new AM Best report.

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Hackers Leak Documents From Pentagon IT Services Provider Leidos

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Hackers have leaked internal documents stolen from Leidos Holdings Inc., one of the largest IT services providers to the US government, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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Insurers Face Business Interruption Claims After Global Tech Outage

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Insurers could face a raft of business interruption claims after a worldwide tech outage crippled industries from travel to finance on Friday, insurance industry experts said.

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California Needs a Million EV Charging Stations — But That’s ‘Unlikely’ and ‘Unrealistic’

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California will have to build public charging stations at an unprecedented — and some experts say unrealistic — pace to meet the needs of the 7 million electric cars expected on its roads in less than seven years.

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‘Surface Waters’ on Roof Are Not ‘Flood’ Waters, Massachusetts High Court Rules

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The highest court in Massachusetts has ruled that rainwater accumulation on roofs of buildings does not constitute “surface waters” within the meaning of “flood” in property insurance policies.

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How California’s Homeowners Insurance Crisis is Affecting Brokers

Insurance Journal

A growing homeowners insurance crisis for Californians is straining brokers who must work harder to get increasingly expensive and more frequently unavailable coverage for their clients, a crisis many of them blame on regulations and wildfires.

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California Commissioner Announces FAIR Plan Modernization Deal

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California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said on Friday that he and the California Fair Plan have agreed to establishing a new high value commercial coverage option with limits up to $20 million per building and other steps that he said …

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Study Urges Rethinking of Disaster Management in Era of Compounding Events

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A new report warns that compounding natural disasters introduce new, interconnected, and complex risk scenarios — and points to a need to reimagine efforts that support disaster preparedness, mitigation, and recovery “in an era of intensifying extreme weather-climate events and …

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Hurricane Beryl Caused Estimated $2-3B in Insured Losses to U.S. Property: Verisk

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Estimated industry insured losses to onshore property from wind in the U.S. for Hurricane Beryl will range between $2 billion to $3 billion, Verisk’s Extreme Event Solutions business unit said.

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Damaging West Texas Earthquakes Likely Caused by Oil and Gas Activity: USGS

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Damaging earthquakes that rocked West Texas in recent days were likely caused by oil and gas activity in an area that has weathered tremors for decades, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

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Delta Air Lines to Seek Compensation Over Cyber Outage: Report

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Delta Air Lines has hired a law firm and will seek compensation from Microsoft and CrowdStrike over a global cyber outage earlier this month that disrupted flights around the world, CNBC reported on Monday.

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Castle Key Nonrenewing 33,000 Policies as Florida Mulls Special Session on Condos

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Allstate’s Florida subsidiaries are nonrenewing some 33,000 condominium unit policies over the next several months, delivering another blow for beleaguered condo owners across the state.

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FTC Looking Into Targeted Pricing Based on Personal Data

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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched a study of products that could allow companies to set different prices for consumers based on their locations, past purchases, and other personal data.

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J.D. Power: Auto Insurance Shopping Hits New High, Could Drop With Rate Adequacy

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The national auto insurance shopping and quoting rate reached a new high between April and June, but many insurers appear to have achieved or are approaching rate adequacy, “which should lead to less rate activity and perhaps less shopping in …

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Uber, Lyft, DoorDash Prevail in California Gig-Worker Ruling

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Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. can keep classifying California drivers as independent contractors, after the state’s top court said a company-backed law passed by voters doesn’t wrongly curtail the legislature’s power over worker protections.

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Trigger Warning: Cyber Policy Wordings to Impact Coverage for Tech Outage

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Industry stakeholders continue to try to get a grasp of the implications from last week’s massive technology outage affecting motley industries around the world, but the theme of policy language is reoccurring for a cyber insurance industry not known for …

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Disaster-Struck Cities Fight for Aid as FEMA Funding Runs Low

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A once in 200-years storm dumped 11 inches of rain over four hours on the central Massachusetts town of Leominster in September, washing away culverts, creating a sinkhole that swallowed cars at a dealership and flooding the city council chambers …

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Progressive Q2 Net Income Skyrockets Over 320%

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Progressive Corp. today reported second quarter 2024 results of about $1.5 billion and a combined ratio of 91.9. Results for the Mayfield Village, Ohio-based insurer are in comparison to second quarter 2023 net income of $345.

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Southern California Blaze Destroys Six Homes, Other Still Fires Burning in State

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A Southern California fire destroyed six homes and damaged seven others in a blaze that was reportedly ignited by fireworks. The Hawarden Fire started over the weekend and at one point threatened nearly 1,500 homes.

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Report: Impact of BEC Attacks on US Companies Misunderstood

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A new report asserts the impact of business email compromise incidents on U.S. companies is likely underestimated and misunderstood—and it shows that multifactor authentication and cybersecurity awareness programs may be the top two risk management controls to prevent BEC attacks.

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Hurricane Beryl: Insurers See Minimal Impact, Brace for Active Season

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Insurers’ losses from Hurricane Beryl will be “low and readily absorbed” and the storm is not expected to change pricing conditions in the P&C and reinsurance sectors, Moody’s Ratings said.

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Global Cyber Outage Grounds Flights, Hits Banks, Telecoms, Media

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A software update wreaked havoc on computer systems globally on Friday, grounding flights, forcing some broadcasters off air and hitting services from banking to healthcare.

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Florida Tax Watch Calls for Renewed Tax Breaks for Home Hardening Efforts

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Florida Tax Watch, a nonprofit government watchdog in operation for 45 years, is urging state lawmakers to expand wind-mitigation tax breaks for homeowners struggling with higher insurance premiums.

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Hurricane Beryl Death Toll Grows to At Least 36, Including Those Who Lost Power

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HOUSTON (AP) — The number of Texas deaths after Hurricane Beryl came ashore and knocked out power to millions of residents climbed to at least 36 on Thursday as officials confirmed more people who died in homes that were left …

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A Troubling Phrase: ‘Just a Category 1 Hurricane’

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Here’s a troubling phrase hurricane forecasters hate but often hear: “It’s just a Category 1. Nothing to worry about.” Or even worse: “Tropical storm? Just some wind and rain.

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ZestyAI Receives Texas Approval to Use Severe Convective Storm Products

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ZestyAI, a provider of climate and property risk analytics solutions powered by artificial intelligence (AI), announced it has received approval for use in rating and underwriting from the Texas Department of Insurance for its complete suite of Severe Convective Storm …

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Black Bear and Cub Destroy Car in Connecticut After Getting Trapped Inside

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Trapped inside a car, the adult black bear and cub thrashed about. The horn was blaring and the radio blasting. Outside the car, a second cub ran around in apparent distress by the Connecticut home.

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