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Today's Headlines
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February 6, 2026 |
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In search for clues about property/casualty insurance carrier profit potential and market conditions for 2026, Carrier Management listened to earnings conference calls for six publicly traded insurers in January, gathering executive explanations about 2025 results and their expectations for the year ahead. At The Hartford, where executives reported net written premium growth of 8% for... read more
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Presumably, many insurers in the next couple of weeks will continue to announce very favorable quarterly and full-year earnings—the kind of numbers that could draw the attention of legislators and regulators. Asked his thoughts on the potential for the implementation of some states' excess profit laws, Chubb CEO Evan G. Greenberg said he was "sympathetic... read more
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For years, the commercial insurance industry has operated under a compromise. We accepted that the more "precise" an underwriting decision needed to be, the longer it would take to make. High-fidelity risk assessment required manual intervention—underwriters scouring satellite imagery, cross-referencing flood maps, and digging through ... read more |
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PacifiCorp on Wednesday urged an Oregon appeals court to overturn rulings that expose the Berkshire Hathaway-owned utility to $52 billion in potential wildfire liabilities. The Portland, Oregon-based utility has denied claims by thousands of people in the state who accused it of causing wildfires by negligently failing to shut off power lines during a Labor... read more
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Engineers at the University of Texas at Arlington have developed a soft robotic exoskeleton that promises to help workers in jobs that require hours of lifting and repetitive motion by reducing the load. The Pneumatically Actuated Soft Elbow Exoskeleton (PASE) uses a lightweight silicone "pneumatic actuator" - a soft, air-filled mechanism that helps move the... read more
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When commercial truck drivers are speeding down California's highways and interstates with thousands of pounds of cargo in tow, a single mistake can be catastrophic. Yet California fails to regulate most of the schools that train truck drivers, allowing nearly 200 unlicensed schools to operate with effectively no oversight, according to a CalMatters analysis of... read more
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Following in the footsteps of groundhog Punxsutawney Phil, analysts from Fitch Ratings and Morningstar weighed in with these P/C insurance market forecasts in the past week: "Fitch Ratings expects the U.S. property/casualty market to continue softening in 2026, with increased competition, abundant capital and downward pricing pressure. "Despite the high number of litigations and escalating... read more
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For the second year in a row, Super Bowl Monday will set a record for the number of U.S. employees who plan to miss work, according to UKG's annual Super Bowl Fever Absenteeism Survey. It's estimated that 26.2 million workers will miss work the day after the big game, surpassing 2025's record-setting 22.6 million employees... read more
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Paper-based payment processes have been the industry default for decades, but ...
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Rising repair costs and fragmented data are making auto claims recovery harder ...
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P&C insurers face mounting pressure to modernize, but choosing between ...
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Cloud outages brought business operations to a standstill worldwide in 2025, ...
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