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WebNATS chaos leaves travel insurance gaps exposed
7+ hour, 42+ min ago (419+ words) More than 330,000 passengers were affected by the National Air Traffic Services failure that disrupted UK aviation on September 8 and 9, according to trade body Airlines UK, which put the breakdown at over 155,000 passengers facing cancelled flights and around 180,000 experiencing delays. That…...
Zurich ties cheaper Tesla premiums to FSD mode in Australian first
7+ hour, 1+ min ago (413+ words) Zurich Australia has become the first insurer in the local market – and only the second globally – to build the use of Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) technology into how it prices car insurance, arguing its own underwriting data shows the system…...
"There's a log jam": Why global M&A’s biggest buyers could be pulling back
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (513+ words) OPTIS Partners recorded 695 North American agent and broker transactions in 2025, down 12% from 2024 and 24% below the previous five-year average. Private equity-backed brokers completed 10% fewer acquisitions, while activity among publicly traded brokers dropped 27%. The number of identifiable buyers also fell for a…...
"There's a log jam": Why global brokerage M&A’s biggest buyers might be pulling back
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (513+ words) OPTIS Partners recorded 695 North American agent and broker transactions in 2025, down 12% from 2024 and 24% below the previous five-year average. Private equity-backed brokers completed 10% fewer acquisitions, while activity among publicly traded brokers dropped 27%. The number of identifiable buyers also fell for a…...
A top AssuredPartners dealmaker just took the wheel of a rival, PE-backed broker
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (307+ words) Two personnel moves embedded in this week's industry roundup point to the same underlying story, and it is a bigger one than a leadership note usually gets. Third Wave Insurance has named Paul Vredenburg chief executive, moving founder Brian Bair…...
Large commercial accounts see first price drop since 2017, WTW finds
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (355+ words) Large commercial accounts posted their first price decrease since the end of 2017 in the second quarter of 2026, according to WTW's Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey (CLIPS), as an eight-year run of sustained rate increases continued to unwind across the commercial…...
Underwriters say AI is saving time, not improving decisions
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (455+ words) Most senior commercial underwriters say AI has saved them time on admin. Far fewer say it has improved the quality of their decisions. That gap shapes how submissions get handled, how risks get priced, and how consistent underwriting decisions are…...
What brokers must know about the ‘it won't happen to me’ mindset before their next SME conversation
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (564+ words) The single biggest misconception small business owners have about insurance isn't about price, according to Mariano Neiman (pictured), COO at Zensurance, and understanding that distinction is the key to a more productive conversation between brokers and skeptical clients. "The results…...
Consumers already trust AI with insurance decisions, and that breaks the usual pattern
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (431+ words) Every previous wave of digital change in insurance has run into the same obstacle: trust. Consumers hesitated to move to digital channels, and they hesitated to share data in exchange for better pricing, largely because they didn't trust the systems…...
Ransomware group claims cyberattack on Dunedin clinical trial company
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (568+ words) A ransomware group has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on a Dunedin clinical trial company, with large volumes of sensitive health data feared stolen and Health Minister Simeon Brown receiving regular updates on the breach. Health New Zealand (Health NZ)…...