Insurance News for Professionals

Meta ordered to pay $25 billion privacy penalty

Per-violation math meets Big Tech, and the bill runs to 11 figures as case raises some important liability issues

Seven in 10 boards now build cyber into enterprise risk, Willis D&O survey finds

Board oversight of cyber is growing, but fewer than half of directors feel well informed about whether security spending actually reduces risk

ISC buys California wholesaler USASIA in second wholesale deal of 2026

The Onex-backed MGA is building out a national wholesale arm, adding a 30-year-old commercial brokerage to strengthen its West Coast offering

Gallagher adds Texas benefits agency Mund Group

The New Braunfels firm will join Gallagher’s Central region benefits consulting business, as employers face the steepest health cost increases in years

Spotlight

‘Ignorance is not bliss’

As our lives get more connected, we need to be better protected – and that begins with having the best personal cyber coverage

Monthly Features

“You can’t really separate them”: The case for keeping AI-powered attacks within cyber

HSB’s cyber practice head explains the coverage challenge as attackers' capabilities expand

Cyber’s soft market is masking a coverage squeeze

Lower premiums and abundant capacity may be obscuring exclusions and sublimits for businesses dependent on external technology

E&S

Banyan Risk takes casualty platform into US E&S with Accredited capacity

The Bermuda MGA, which launched a wildfire venture last month, now plans to build a US casualty underwriting team

AXA XL names western E&S casualty underwriting manager

Erin Bouren joins as AXA XL builds out its newly launched dedicated wholesale E&S entity in the US

Digital Transformation

AI exclusions are spreading through commercial policies, brokers warn clients to check cover

Standard ISO forms that strip generative AI exposures out of general liability have been available since January.

Build, buy, or something in between - four insurance firms, four different answers

The build-versus-buy debate in US insurance is more nuanced than the binary suggests. And the data sovereignty question is the variable most vendors would rather not discuss

Is cyber’s soft market about to harden?

How AI is transforming insurance

What's next for Fortegra?

Brokers - stop doing this

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IB Talk

Hidden risks in green energy: Insurance gaps in solar, batteries, and beyond

Renewables may be cleaner, but their end-of-life risks are creating new liabilities and coverage gaps.

How brokers can ride the next wave of MGA growth

Agility, tech, and niche expertise will be differentiators, says TMPAA head

Beyond insurance: Rethinking risk for high net worth families

In 2026, protection for affluent families is less about buying more coverage and more about building resilience

Championing women in construction risk

Behind the Marsh program aiming to redefine leadership and equity in a traditionally male-dominated sector

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Speciality News

SMEs rank cyber their top risk but misread the threats: CFC

By Josh Recamara

Oct 21, 2026

Cyber

Most small businesses don’t know cyber insurance covers human error or provides incident response, CFC finds

NSA warns of critical website flaw as Wikipedia, European government websites taken offline

By Matthew Sellers

Oct 21, 2026

Cyber

Emergency fixes are out for two bugs in crucial software that runs around 70% of the web. For cyber insurers, it’s the scenario they fear most: one flaw that could hit thousands of policyholders at once

NSA warns of critical website flaw as Wikipedia, European government websites taken offline

Build, buy, or something in between - four insurance firms, four different answers

By Paul Lucas

Oct 21, 2026

Digital Transformation

The build-versus-buy debate in US insurance is more nuanced than the binary suggests. And the data sovereignty question is the variable most vendors would rather not discuss

Build, buy, or something in between - four insurance firms, four different answers

Surety underwriting’s transformation sits outside the COO’s office

By Chris Davis

Oct 21, 2026

Construction & Engineering

Brock Masterson pairs surety trainees with 25-year veterans and uses AI to speed knowledge transfer

Surety underwriting’s transformation sits outside the COO’s office

Claims payments remain an overlooked insurance bottleneck

By Gia Snape

Oct 21, 2026

Claims

Vitesse’s Shareen Minor discusses delegated claims funding, payment coordination and the potential move into premium transactions