Life Underwriting

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (213+ words) SHENZHEN, CHINA – EQS Newswire – 10 September 2026 – At the “The Future is Now: 2026 DTC Brands Global Growth Strategy Summit” held today in Shenzhen, Gooval officially launched its global flagship product, the “Gooval Shipping Secure Service” package. Gooval is a specialized privilege service…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (341+ words) Van insurance premiums fell 4.5% in the three months to August. That ended a period of flat pricing and resumed the downward trend running since the market peaked in October 2024. Quoted prices are now 11% below last year and around 16% lower than…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (572+ words) A softening commercial property market hands clients something they have not had for most of the past decade: room in the insurance budget. What happens to that room at renewal is the decision that gets tested years later, at claim…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (319+ words) There is an opportunity for Commercial insurers, says Swiss Re; AI and energy drive a new investment era These investments are turning data centres from information technology assets into strategic infrastructure. Their power requirements are measured in gigawatts, asset values…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (375+ words) Insurance carriers and related activities accounted for most of that drop, losing 6,300 jobs on their own. Over the 12 months from August 2025 to August 2026, finance-and-insurance employment fell from 6,733,400 to 6,651,100, a decline of roughly 82,000. For an industry that has spent years marketing…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (267+ words) The US property and casualty industry nearly tripled its net underwriting income in the first half of 2026. The result reflects a market where property and casualty lines are moving in sharply different directions. Net underwriting income reached $31.2 billion in the…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (65+ words) AIG secures minority stakes in Convex and Onex UK datacentre growth raises supply chain concerns Manchester Airports Group hit by major cyber attack Losses from July storms estimated at €2,186m Acrisure UK and ESET partner on cyber business resilience Tokio Marine…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (627+ words) Property catastrophe rates across Asia-Pacific fell 10% to 20% at January renewals, and combined ratios for major regional reinsurers stayed below 100% in 2025. On the surface, the APAC reinsurance market looks stable. Fitch Ratings, in its Asian Reinsurance Monitor, argues the surface is…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (718+ words) By the time insurers are asked to cover a major infrastructure project, many of the decisions determining how difficult or expensive it will be to insure may already have been made. The Association of British Insurers (ABI) wants government to…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (406+ words) The FRST-led seed round will help the startup expand its autonomous AI actuary platform in the US as more companies retain and manage their own insurance risk. Huscarl has raised seed funding to expand its AI-powered actuarial platform in the…...