Vouch is expanding its brokerage services into financial services, health & life sciences and professional services. The San Francisco, California-based company is extending its capabilities to verticals with similar risk patterns it already serves: investor scrutiny, regulatory requirements and coverage gaps that emerge during growth milestones. Vouch reports working with more than 6,000 companies across technology, health & life sciences, professional services, and financial services. The firm is licensed in all 50 states. Topics California Was this article valuable? Yes No Here are more articles you may enjoy. The most important insurance news,in your inbox every business day. Get the…
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IT developers who lose their certification would also forfeit some financial incentives, ASTP/ONC head Dr. Thomas Keane said at the HIMSS conference.
U.S. commercial insurance rates increased 2.9% in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to the latest WTW Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey (CLIPS). “Commercial insurance pricing continued to moderate in the fourth quarter, reflecting a more stable market,” said Yi Jing, senior director, Insurance Consulting and Technology (ICT), WTW. “While some lines continue to see increases, others are flattening or declining, highlighting a more measured approach across the market.” Increases were 3.28% for Q3 and Q2 2025. Increases had been around 6% from the second half of 2023 through Q1 2025. According to the survey, moderation was seen in most…
A jury has acquitted a former engineer overseeing military aircraft maintenance of charges of making false statements and obstructing justice during the criminal investigation of a 2017 military plane crash in Mississippi that killed all 16 service members aboard. James Michael Fisher was found not guilty Thursday after an eight-day trial in federal court in Greenville, Mississippi. Fisher had been the lead propulsion engineer at the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex in Warner Robins, Georgia, in 2011. That’s when military investigators said civilian maintenance personnel failed to find defects in a cracked and corroded propeller blade that was installed on…
Eli Lilly & Co. warned that the active ingredient in its weight-loss blockbuster Zepbound could pose a risk to patients when mixed with vitamin B12, a combination sold by US drug compounders. Lilly tested compounded products and found “significant levels of an impurity” resulting from a chemical reaction between the vitamin and the active ingredient, tirzepatide, it said Thursday. “People receiving tirzepatide-B12 products from compounders, telehealth companies, medspas, or anyone else should be aware that they may be using a potentially dangerous product with unknown risks,” the drugmaker said in an open letter, citing possible toxicity and immune reactions. Lilly,…
Gun violence affects many children and adolescents across the U.S. In response to growing gun violence – including school shootings – federal firearm policies and awareness of the physical and mental harm associated with gun violence have increased. However, during the second Trump Administration, some of these policies are being rolled back, including broadening access to mental health and trauma services in schools. Over the past decade, nearly 22,000 youth ages 17 and younger died by firearm.1 For every firearm fatality, there are at least two survivors of firearm injuries. Additionally, a growing body of research links gun violence exposure –…
It’s becoming increasingly evident that Iran is laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, according to the UK, as Iran’s new supreme leader used his first comments to the media to say the critical waterway should stay closed. “The reports have become clearer and clearer,” UK Defense Secretary John Healey told reporters at Britain’s military headquarters in North London, “the Iranians may have started mining in the strait.” That’s despite the fact that on Wednesday night in the US President Donald Trump said “we don’t think so” to reporters who asked whether Iran had mined the strait. While the UK…
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Ernie Garateix, CEO of Heritage Insurance Holdings, Inc., the nationally expansive, Florida headquartered property and casualty insurer, anticipates the June reinsurance renewals offering his company a chance to secure incremental capacity and improved pricing.Speaking during Heritage’s fourth-quarter earnings call last week, Garateix explained that the insurer foresees benefiting from the softening of the market, seeing this as a chance to secure more core catastrophe cover. “Reinsurance remains a critical component of our business and we have maintained a stable indemnity-based reinsurance program at manageable costs, with an excellent panel of highly rated and collateralized reinsurers, Heritage’s CEO explained. Going on…
A North Carolina insurance agent is out on bond, awaiting court action, after he was charged with diverting premium payments from four automobile dealerships. Jeffrey Martin Webster, of Jamestown, North Carolina, was charged with 18 counts, including forgery and embezzlement by an insurance producer, after investigators with the state Department of Insurance examined evidence from 2024 and 2025, the DOI said in a bulletin. “The defendant did as an insurance agent accept premium payment from R&M Automotive Ventures LLC and agree in exchange to bind insurance coverage for R&M Automotive Ventures LLC and instead, did not bind coverage and did…
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is fielding pressure from the White House to relax his controversial approach to vaccine policies as the midterms near, but his most steadfast supporters are pressing for more aggressive action — like restricting covid-19 vaccines and pesticide use — to carry out the Make America Healthy Again agenda. The tensions risk fraying Kennedy’s dynamic MAHA coalition, potentially driving away critical supporters who helped fuel President Donald Trump’s 2024 election win. The movement’s grassroots membership includes suburbanites, women, and independents who are generally newer entrants to the GOP and laser-focused on achieving…
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued three people from the water approximately 23 miles south of Boothbay Harbor in Maine on Wednesday morning. The Coast Guard Station Boothbay Harbor crew reported they located the vessel at 9:01 a.m. and rescued three mariners from the water. One mariner reported minor hypothermia, while the other two had no reported injuries, the Coast Guard said. The Coast Guard’s northern New England command center received a mayday call at 7:03 a.m. from the crew of a sinking 40′ ridge liner vessel, Vesta Renee. The mariners reported that the vessel was taking on water and that…
Marsh Risk, a business of Marsh, and specialty insurer Apollo’s ibott division announced the launch of an insurance facility for Uber. According to the companies, the facility is the first of its kind and will “accelerate the deployment of autonomous vehicles across Uber’s global platform.” The bespoke Autonomous Vehicle Insurance Program (AVIP) is among Uber’s recently announced Uber Autonomous Solutions designed to support its autonomous vehicle (AV) partners, including developers, fleet operators, vehicle manufacturers/owners, and original equipment manufacturers. Autonomous vehicles “demand a fundamentally different approach to risk and insurance,” said Chriss Moore, president of ibott. AVIP will be underwritten by…