Still, USRM president Hamid Mirza had signaled during the Q4 2024 results call that Liberty Mutual was “primed to fight for market share in 2025 and beyond,” particularly in package business combining personal auto and homeowners, as reported by Carrier Management.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Gabi has big brown eyes, pigtails, and a genetic condition that makes her bones brittle. They fracture easily, leaving the 2-year-old in such pain that her mother quit her job cleaning offices to stay home and cradle her in the one-bedroom apartment they share with six relatives. When federal immigration agents descended on their city, officers deported Gabi’s father and detained her aunt. Gabi was born in the U.S. and is an American citizen. Her best chance to stand, or even walk, someday is a complex surgery on her legs and feet that was scheduled for January. But…
Health100, set to launch this year, will collect patients’ data from across the healthcare ecosystem, help them find care and use AI to provide education and guidance, CVS said.
Our latest video features the opening panel discussion of the day at Artemis ILS NYC 2026, a session focused on the private insurance-linked securities marketplace, from our tenth catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference in the ILS NYC series, held on February 6th 2026 in New York.With over 450 people attending, ILS NYC 2026 was our busiest conference ever, with the majority of the insurance-linked securities market represented, numerous protection buyers, our biggest ever contingent of end-investors, asset managers and investors seeking education and contacts as they consider the asset class, as well as many of the ILS market’s…
A New York man who claimed he could not work because of an ankle injury sustained in his work as a painter collected more than $10,000 in workers’ compensation wage replacement benefits while concealing he was back on the job. Christopher Cronk, of Central Square, admitted to insurance fraud as part of his plea in Onondaga County Court, according to New York State Workers’ Compensation Fraud Inspector General Lucy Lang. Cronk was injured in March 2021 while employed by Cutting Edge Painting in Webster, and shortly thereafter began receiving wage replacement benefits that are intended to support injured workers who…
No confirmed cyberattack by Iran or its proxies has been linked to the strikes, designated Operation Epic Fury, but CyberCube said the threat could come through direct state action or deniable fronts – and urged carriers to move beyond routine monitoring toward a proactive footing across underwriting and exposure management.
The case was brought by Ashley Hernandez and Samson Dallas Shake, homeowners in Seaside, California, whose property was damaged on or about March 8, 2025, when a water supply line failed in and around their bathroom, rendering the home uninhabitable. State Farm denied the claim on March 31, 2025, citing the policy exclusion for water “below the surface of the ground.” According to the filing, the insurer reached that conclusion without ever inspecting the property or retaining a plumber, leak detection company, engineer, or contractor to investigate.
OTTUMWA, Iowa — Leisa and Kent Walker recently received a disturbing notice: The private company managing their son’s Medicaid coverage intends to cut nearly 40% of what it spends for caregivers who help him live at home instead of in a nursing home. Sam Walker, 35, has severe autism and other disabilities. He is deaf and cannot speak. Sometimes when he’s frustrated, he hits himself or others. Medicaid provides about $8,500 a month for health workers who visit his apartment in the basement of his parents’ home. The staffers help him with everyday tasks, including dressing, bathing, and eating. They…
New York City paid more than $117 million last year to settle police misconduct lawsuits in cases ranging from the violent arrests of protesters in 2020 to bad police work that led to wrongful convictions in the 1980s, according to a newly published analysis of city data. Nearly $800 million in payouts were made over the last seven years. The largest settlements last year, totaling $24.1 million, went to two men who spent more than 20 years in prison after they were wrongly arrested and convicted for a fatal 1986 robbery in midtown Manhattan robbery. Another settlement, for $5.75 million,…
Pete Walkup Merchants Insurance Group, headquartered in Buffalo, New York, appointed Pete Walkup as its vice president, head of claims. Walkup oversees all claims operations, with an emphasis on operational performance, process modernization, and delivering value to policyholders. Walkup joins Merchants from Donegal Insurance, where he served as vice president, claims operations, since 2022. He has over 28 years of claims experience, including senior leadership roles at Kemper Insurance and State Farm Insurance. Topics Claims Was this article valuable? Yes No Here are more articles you may enjoy. Interested in Claims? Get automatic alerts for this topic.
Nearly a decade after Congress banned information blocking, the HHS is making progress on cracking down on health IT developers accused of the practice, the national coordinator for health information technology said during a Senate subcommittee hearing.
California safety regulators levied a heavy fine against a metal fabricator over an incident that cost a worker a finger. Cal/OSHA fined All FAB Precision Sheetmetal $212,850 after a June 2025 press brake incident in San Jose amputated a worker’s finger. All FAB Precision Sheetmetal is a San Jose sheet‑metal company previously cited in connection with a similar 2024 amputation involving the same type of equipment, according to Cal/OSHA. The agency issued one willful regulatory violation, one serious accident‑related violation and one willful repeat serious accident‑related violation. Investigators said the company failed to correct a known machine‑guarding hazard and continued…
A waterworks products company facing asbestos claims is entitled to tap its Chubb excess insurance policy because its primary insurance has been “exhausted” as a result of the primary carrier’s insolvency and its inability to pay any covered claims. A Massachusetts Superior Court found in favor of Water Applications Distribution Group (WADG) and against the Chubb subsidiary Federal Insurance Co. on the grounds that the term “exhausted” in Federal’s policy is ambiguous and must be interpreted in the policyholder’s favor. The case turned on whether the primary coverage was “exhausted” in circumstances where WADG’s primary carrier became insolvent before paying…
Passage of the 2025 reconciliation law, also known as the “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” in July 2025 and the inclusion of new work requirements for certain Medicaid enrollees in the law focused attention on the work status of adults enrolled in the program as well as their access to job-based insurance. Most adults who will be subject to the new Medicaid work requirements are already working. These adult workers rely on Medicaid because most work in jobs that do not offer health coverage or are not eligible for the offered coverage. While employer-sponsored insurance is the main source of coverage…