However, sources said Lloyd’s chair, Charles Roxburgh, is cautious about how much can be disclosed. Roxburgh, a former senior HM Treasury official who became chair in May 2025, has been advised on potential legal risks if detailed conclusions are released, including the prospect of litigation.
Author: Awais
According to the filing, The Liberty Company has been marketing itself under “THE LIBERTY COMPANY” – and using the word “LIBERTY” on its own – for nearly 40 years. It says it has run libertycompany.com for more than two decades, and that the word “LIBERTY” sits front and center on its homepage, emails, brochures, videos, and ads. The broker handles commercial insurance, personal insurance, employee benefits, and related business services.
The insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance investments portfolio managed by specialist pension investor PGGM on behalf of Dutch pension PFZW delivered a 12.4% return in USD for full-year 2025, while the portfolio assets ended the year at a valuation of just over US $8.9 billion.The portfolio of insurance-linked securities funds and reinsurance structures that PGGM Investments allocates to on behalf of the Dutch pension fund for the care and welfare sector, Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW), remains the largest allocation from a single entity investing in the ILS sector. The insurance and reinsurance investments make up a key component of…
The Four Seasons of Small Business Risk Winter: Property Damage and Slip-and-Fall Liability Winter is expensive for small businesses. Water and freezing damage is the number-one small business property claim, according to The Hartford’s 2025 data. Burst pipes, ice dams, and frozen sprinkler systems can cause tens of thousands of dollars in damage overnight. The liability side is just as significant. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that slips, trips, and falls account for 19.9% of all workplace injuries. Snow and ice turn sidewalks, parking lots, and entryways into prime slip-and-fall territory, driving up general liability exposure for any business with a physical location. For your clients,…
Global insurer’s broker-facing rate momentum is holding firm across most lines but softening in commercial property and Lloyd’s shows where competition is biting hardest
A panel of judges found the president had improperly invoked a rarely used provision of a decades-old trade law
The Virginia Department of Health said on Thursday it is monitoring a resident who recently returned from a cruise ship linked to a deadly Hantavirus outbreak. The person had been aboard the MV Hondius, a Dutch-flagged expedition cruise ship that is at the center of an international public-health response after multiple cases of the rare virus were identified on board. The department said the person was in good health and posed a low risk to the public. The traveler has returned to Virginia and is under public health monitoring, officials said. Hantavirus usually spreads through contact with infected rodents and…
Ashley Lefebvre has joined Alliant Insurance Services as vice president within its employee benefits group in Houston, Texas. She will serve a national client base, partnering with clients to deliver strategic employee benefits and HR solutions that boost ROI and align with long-term growth strategies. Lefebvre joins Alliant with a multifaceted background that encompasses employee benefits consulting, strategic growth, and operational strategy. With a focus on small businesses, she has extensive experience in plan design, risk assessment, and process improvement. She also supports clients in growing and scaling their operations, driving revenue and client retention. Prior to joining Alliant, Lefebvre…
Calidris Investment Partners, the insurance-focused investment manager backed by RedBird Capital Partners, has made three key hires as the firm continues to expand its platform, including James Larner, who joins the firm as Director of Investor Partnerships.At the same time, Calidris has also appointed Chelsea Smith as Finance and Operations Manager, and Abigail Exon as Quantitative Strategies Manager. These appointments follow a period of rapid momentum for Calidris. Launched in May 2025 by former Ontario Teachers’ insurance-linked securities (ILS) specialist, Philippe Trahan, and Daniel Miller, a former Blackstone insurance transaction specialist, Calidris announced its market entry earlier this year with…
That, in essence, is the story told in a lawsuit filed on May 6, 2026, in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York. According to the filing, First American is going after Liberty National Title Agency Corp., two entities operating as Consumer Direct Title Agency Inc. (one in New York, one in Florida), and their sole principal, Patricia Stein-Oliva, accusing them of pulling off a coordinated rebrand to leave a court judgment unpaid.
The growers took the dispute to arbitration, as the policy’s Paragraph 20 required. According to the complaint, the arbitrator’s amended award found that each plaintiff filed his own FSA-578 forms, kept his own tobacco contracts, sales receipts and soybean receipts, and signed his own assignments of indemnity. The arbitrator also found, the filing states, that Hudson “did not review or rely on any of the above documents” before deciding each grower had only a 50 percent insured share, did not produce those documents in discovery, and put on no witness with personal knowledge of how the decision was actually made. The arbitrator…
Tampa-based HCI Group, now in its 20th year and its 18th year as a publicly traded company, reported a healthy profit for the first quarter of 2026 and significant growth in premium across most of its property-casualty insurance firms. “HCI Group had an excellent start to 2026, delivering record first quarter results for earned premiums, net income and earnings per share,” HCI Group Chairman and CEO Paresh Patel said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The group reported net income of $85 million for Q1. That’s down significantly from the $108 million for Q4 2025 but…
A decade ago, wind power was surging in popularity and attracting huge investments that made Texas a national leader in renewable energy. But today, gas generation is making a big comeback, driven by a wave of data centers flooding into the state. For the last six months, the volume of gas generation in the Texas grid’s interconnection queue — the yearslong waiting list for electric generators wanting to connect to the grid — has surpassed wind. It’s the first time since January 2016 that gas has overtaken wind in the queue, a shift that reflects the policy and economic headwinds…
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced a settlement with Vee Pak LLC, doing business as Voyant Beauty (Vee Pak) that resolves allegations the manufacturing company entered into no-poach agreements with several temporary staffing agencies. The settlement requires Vee Pak to pay $625,000 to compensate temporary workers impacted by the unlawful activity. Vee Pak is the last remaining defendant in a lawsuit Raoul’s office filed against it and six staffing agencies in 2022. The settlement with Vee Pak means that litigation is now fully resolved, with the office recovering a total of $2.52 million from all defendants. In 2022, Raoul’s office…