The Host The actions of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are having ramifications far beyond immigration. Medical groups say that ICE agents in health facilities in Minneapolis and other cities are imperiling patient care, while in Washington, the backlash from a second fatal shooting by agents in Minnesota has stalled action on an eleventh-hour suite of spending bills. Meanwhile, anti-abortion groups remain unhappy with the Trump administration over what they see as its reluctance to scale back the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone. This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, Maya Goldman of Axios, Alice…
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Integral ILS Ltd. is now aiming to secure up to $275 million of US named storm retrocession from its debut Windrose Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) catastrophe bond, while the price guidance has been adjusted for each of the tranches of notes being offered, Artemis can report.Integral ILS became the latest specialist insurance-linked securities investment manager to seek hedging protection from the catastrophe bond market for its managed ILS investment funds earlier this month, when its debut cat bond began marketing. As ILS manager’s have grown their assets under management and so their portfolios of catastrophe reinsurance risk instruments, which Integral…
A federal judge on Tuesday allowed Vineyard Wind to resume work on its Massachusetts offshore wind project, which President Donald Trump’s administration halted along with four other projects last month due to national security concerns. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden, is the latest of several recent legal setbacks for Trump’s anti-offshore wind policy. An Interior Department spokesperson said the agency had no comment on pending litigation. Vineyard Wind, a $4.5 billion joint venture between Spain’s Iberdrola and Denmark’s Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, is the fourth project paused by…
The updated report introduces deeper profiles of Farmers, American Family, Auto Club Enterprises, Auto-Owners, and Sentry, among others. New figures track profit-adjusted premium growth, underwriting discipline, and reserve-to-loss ratios from 2014 to 2024, revealing which smaller players are scaling sustainably and which are quietly retreating.
Listen to the article 7 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The Trump administration has negotiated deals with major Medicaid systems vendors that it says will save states hundreds of millions of dollars as they hustle to implement massive changes to the safety-net insurance program from the GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” On Thursday, CMS officials shared a list of 10 companies that have agreed to provide IT services and products at low or no cost to states to help them stand up work requirements, a controversial policy tying Medicaid eligibility to work or…
The U.S. Department of Commerce is preparing to open a national artificial-intelligence center in San Francisco, putting it closer to firms at the center of some of the government’s most high-profile initiatives. In addition to the Bay Area, AI export officials will be based in cities across the U.S., according to a Commerce official, who asked not to be identified. The Trump administration is looking to increase the country’s edge in AI and defense, industries that are largely based in California. It also aims to exploit natural resources in the state to increase the nation’s energy independence and bolster its…
Data source: These findings are based on KFF analysis of the 2025 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS-ASEC). The CPS is a nationally representative U.S. household survey sponsored jointly by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and is the “primary source of labor force statistics for the population of the United States”. Identifying foreign-born workers from impacted countries in CPS-ASEC: Foreign-born workers are identified as those between ages 19 and 64 who report their citizenship group as either “foreign born, US cit by naturalization” or “foreign born, not a US citizen”. Those who further indicate their country…
For many of the nearly 28 years since the Tampa Bay Rays held their inaugural game in St. Petersburg’s domed stadium, they have been looking for a bigger, better deal. Tropicana Field’s location, across Tampa Bay from the much-larger population base in Tampa, attributed to low attendance through most of those years. The Tampa Bay Devil Rays began as the most recent of Major League Baseball’s expansion teams, along with the Arizona Diamondbacks. They eventually dropped Devil from the team’s name and have carved a fairly successful path as a small-market team despite a low payroll and poor attendance. Every…
Ethos, though, occupies a middle ground that today’s public investors are treating with more caution. It doesn’t operate as a classic life insurer, taking most of the risk onto its own balance sheet. Instead, it functions as a digital marketplace and wholesaler, funneling applicants to a panel of carriers using its proprietary underwriting and distribution platform.
The clock is ticking on the National Flood Insurance Program—again. The NFIP is part of the federal funding package, which is set to expire at the end of Jan. 30. Unless Congress compromises on several issues, namely funding for the Department of Homeland Security, the NFIP will be among a group of agencies set to lapse. A lapse would mean no new federal flood insurance policies sold or renewed. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), administrator of NFIP, will still make payments for claims using available funds. NFIP was reauthorized until the end of this month when federal lawmakers ended…
While wrong-way crashes are increasing statewide in Michigan, one major highway is seeing the opposite trend. Since new wrong-way detection systems went up on US 131 in Grand Rapids, crashes have dropped more than 50%, according to state transportation officials. Beginning in 2023, nearly two dozen new “wrong-way” detection systems were installed along a stretch of US 131 between M-11 (28th Street) and Ann Street in Grand Rapids. The overall project cost about $200,000, including a $92,000 federal grant. The technology is mounted on existing “wrong way” and “do not enter” signs. When a driver enters the wrong ramp, the…
It’s getting harder to afford living in Texas — even as incomes and educational attainment grow and poverty declines. Despite the state’s robust economic growth since the start of the decade, incomes in Texas haven’t kept pace with the nation at large, U.S. Census Bureau data released Thursday show. And the state’s housing costs have outpaced income growth, leaving a greater share of Texas renters and homeowners spending a bigger chunk of their pay to keep a roof over their heads than they did before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Texas has long been viewed as incredibly affordable —…
New York and most of the Northeast will likely be spared the worst of a new winter storm this weekend that still may clip Cape Cod and eastern New England after also making conditions worse across parts of North Carolina and Virginia as it travels north. In Cape Cod, eastern Massachusetts, snow is expected to develop after midnight Sunday and linger through the day before tapering off early Monday morning, said Matthew Belk, a National Weather Service meteorologist. The forecast for Long Island isn’t as clear because any jog in the storm’s track further out to sea would drop the…
House Bill 1274, introduced during the 2026 Regular Session by Representative Shanda Yates, takes direct aim at how carriers handle nonfault incidents, and it comes with teeth. The proposal would prohibit insurers from raising rates, tacking on surcharges, canceling policies, or declining renewals based on crashes where the policyholder wasn’t at fault. Breaking these rules wouldn’t just mean a slap on the wrist. Violators would have to refund any overcharged premiums and pay a penalty of triple that amount, or $1,000, whichever is higher. Insureds who take their carriers to court and win would also collect attorney fees.