Welcome to Artemis’ 2026 Bermuda ILS Executive Roundtable, during which leaders and experts from across the insurance-linked securities sector discussed the momentum being seen in catastrophe bonds and ILS this year, as well as the continued importance of Bermuda’s role in the market.In partnership with Appleby and Moody’s, the Artemis Bermuda ILS Executive Roundtable 2026 report is now available to download for free. Artemis held its seventh Bermuda insurance-linked securities (ILS) executive roundtable in Hamilton in April, bringing together leaders from across the expanding sector to discuss current market trends and future opportunities. Seven ILS market experts representing different parts…
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A London-based global intermediary launched last December by AmTrust Financial and Blackstone Credit & Insurance has acquired its second workers’ compensation specialist in the U.S. ANV Group Holdings Ltd. announced it has completed the acquisition of Associated Specialty Insurance Agency LLC (ASIA), a wholesale commercial insurance agency and wholesale broker headquartered in Springfield, Pennsylvania. Terms were not disclosed. ASIA is a family-owned business run by Frank Sorochen, Sr. as chief executive officer, and his wife, Bernadette, and sons Frank Jr., Tim and Bob. ASIA has more than 30 years of experience placing workers’ compensation coverage. It serves more than for…
Insurance Journal’s Risky Future series is hosting the “AI Tools for Retail Agents” Demo Day, a series of free AI tool demonstrations designed exclusively for retail insurance agencies, agency principals, sales leaders, operational teams and more. This event spotlights AI solutions built to help agencies sell, service, and grow faster — from prospecting and quoting to account management and renewal automation. Vendors will highlight workflow automation, customer service tools, cross-sell gap identification, and AMS integrations. In partnership with Insurance Journal, Risky Future’s AI Tools for Retail Agents Demo Day will be held on Wednesday, June 10, beginning at 1pm ET.…
HealthQ’s Cara Anthony and Blake Farmer share know-how for parents navigating the decision to seek out mental healthcare for a child. (Candice Evers for WPLN and KFF Health News) Divorce rocked the lives of Marcela Cabay and her daughter, who was a preschooler at the time. But counseling didn’t come until years later, when Cabay noticed her daughter was tensing up every time a storm rolled through or whenever they were preparing to be apart. “She was experiencing just a lot of anxiety, really starting to think worst-case scenarios all the time, just really struggling in her daily life,” said…
How do we know if AI use in health care actually makes patients better? Chip talks with Dr. David Bates — a veteran physician leader at Mass General Brigham and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Co-director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics Learning Systems — about measuring patient outcomes reliably and in real time to create a strong foundation for everything else in health care administration — clinical deployment, payment reform, consumer transparency, and accountability. David has spent his career at the center of this challenge and his research helped inform To Err Is Human: Building a…
Today we are excited to begin announcing expert speakers for our next catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference, Artemis London 2026. Join us in London on September 1st for a full-day of in-depth discussion about the ILS market and valuable networking, register to attend the conference here.Artemis London 2026 will be our fifth catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference held in the City of London. For this year’s conference we return to the same Minster Building venue we used in 2025, when almost 240 people joined us for last year’s event. In 2026 we will be…
Alliant Insurance Services launched a new line of business to address what the firm sees as a growing convergence of retirement consulting and wealth management. Retirement & Wealth at Alliant is designed to link institutional retirement plan relationships with individual wealth advisory services through affiliated entities. RWA will be led by Amit Dogra, managing director and executive vice president. Dogra has 25 years of experience. He has worked with registered investment advisors, broker-dealers, family offices and plan sponsors. Dorga has held senior leadership roles across business development, operations, investment management and practice management. Irvine, California-based Alliant Insurance Services provides risk…
Eight people have been charged with conspiring to impersonate shipping carriers in a multimillion dollar theft scheme that operated throughout the Northeast between October 2025 and April 2026. The eight defendants allegedly stole nearly $5 million in goods from logistics sites in Pennsylvania, Virginia and New Jersey. They then allegedly diverted the stolen goods to New York City for sale on the black market. In total, they allegedly committed six thefts and stole $165,000 worth of lamb; $432,000 worth of cheese; $295,000 worth of beef; more than $266,000 worth of copper; and more than $3.3 million of cigarettes. Manhattan District…
A federal judge won’t disturb a $256 million jury verdict in a long-running libel and RICO lawsuit against a plaintiffs’ lawyer who had charged an Alabama coal company with human rights abuses in Colombia. “Defendants’ claim that the jury was confused is simply unsupported by the record,” Senior U.S. District Judge David Proctor wrote in his June 2 opinion, upholding what has been called one of the largest jury awards in Alabama history. The case began more than a decade ago, after Collingsworth, who founded the International Rights Advocates law firm, sued Drummond Co. and other U.S. firms, accusing them…
Carol Coady has been called out of retirement to be interim president and CEO of Florida Lawyers Mutual Insurance Co., starting next week. Coady served as the professional liability insurer’s operations manager for more than 20 years, before she retired in 2024, the company said in an announcement. She succeeds Cathleen Sargent, who has been president since 2022. Coady “It is a genuine honor to return to Florida Lawyers Mutual and help lead the organization during this transformative and exciting period,” said Coady. The change in leadership comes five months after the AM Best rating firm downgraded Florida Lawyers Mutual’s…
A new United Nations assessment of ocean health documents a “deepening crisis” as climate change, pollution, overfishing, and biodiversity loss threaten marine ecosystems crucial to human survival. The result is rising sea levels, acidifying seas, dying coral reefs and declining fish stocks that supply 20% of the animal protein humans consume, according to the report released Monday and compiled by 600 scientists from 86 nations. It’s the third World Ocean Assessment since 2015 and was last updated in 2021. “The coming decade is decisive: without rapid, coordinated global action, ocean health will continue to decline, threatening climate stability, biodiversity resilience,…
Marsh & McLennan Agency has filed suit against brokerage Patriot Growth Insurance Services and eight former members of a surety team over an alleged poaching scheme. Filed early June in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and since remanded to state court, the lawsuit names former employees Keith Wallace Harrelson, Ryan McClendon, Albert Bowen Evans, Jeffrey Cutshall, Rebecca Burrus, Hailee Wesson, Hunter Harper, and Jennifer Barranco—who had each worked at MMA’s Birmingham, Alabama office. The group made up about half of the surety team in Birmingham, said MMA, and most resigned on May 18 by leaving…
Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending June 7th 2026, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for every article we publish.Ten most read articles on Artemis.bm, week ending June 7th 2026: Gothaer seeks €100m German flood reinsurance with debut Yardstick Re catastrophe bondGothaer Allgemeine Versicherungs AG, a German insurance company, has entered the catastrophe bond market for its debut sponsorship, targeting €100 million or more in reinsurance limit to cover flood events…
A UK poll shows that a new Brexit referendum would reverse the vote that led to Britain’s departure from the European Union a decade ago. Fifty-two percent of Britons think the UK should rejoin the EU, according to an Ipsos survey of 1,137 British adults conducted between May 14 and May 20. That’s the inverse of the mood in June 2016 when a comparable share of the electorate backed Brexit. Almost half of Britons support a repeat of that referendum, with opinion evenly split on whether it should happen before or after the next general election. Asked how they would…