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States Sue to Block Paramount’s $110 Billion Warner Bros Discovery Deal California and 11 states sued to block Paramount’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, alleging the deal would create a media behemoth with the power to raise prices in film and television. The lawsuit filed in Oakland federal court, …
POSTED JULY 14, 2026 2:13 PM |
Enterprise Risk Associates Buys up Florida-Based Insurance Solutions of America Enterprise Risk Associates, the New York-based insurance brokerage that has focused on expansion through agency acquisitions, said it has acquired Insurance Solutions of America, headquartered in Oviedo, Florida. ISOA was founded in 2007 by Scott Lugering and Amber LaSota. It …
POSTED JULY 14, 2026 2:12 PM |
US P/C Industry Books Best Result in a Decade but Not All Lines Enjoy Success The U.S. property/casualty industry posted its best underwriting profit and combined ratio in a decade in 2025, building upon the $1 trillion of total direct premiums written logged the prior year for the first time. According to a new report …
POSTED JULY 14, 2026 1:37 PM |
Chemical Tanker Stolt Magnesium Hit by Explosion off Omani Coast, Manager Says The chemical tanker Stolt Magnesium caught fire on Tuesday following the “explosion of an unidentified external device” as it was sailing in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Oman, according to its manager Stolt Tankers, the main unit of …
POSTED JULY 14, 2026 1:20 PM |
RockRose Risk Launches Mitigation-First Insurance Model for California Homeowners RockRose Risk launched a “human-in-the-loop” assessments product to provide the algorithms need to price risk accurately in California. RockRose Risk, an insurance brokerage that offers property owners discounts for wildfire mitigation, launched its homeowners insurance product in California, which follows …
POSTED JULY 14, 2026 1:01 PM |
UAE Oil Tankers Attacked While Sailing Dark Through Hormuz Two United Arab Emirates-linked supertankers came under attack while sailing “dark” through the Strait of Hormuz, threatening one of the main methods of getting non-Iranian crude to the global market during the war. A seafarer died and several were injured, …
POSTED JULY 14, 2026 12:28 PM |
Iran and US launch New Missile Attacks, Battle Over Control of Strait of Hormuz Iran fired ballistic missiles at a U.S. air base in Jordan on Tuesday and the United States attacked Iranian targets for five hours in a battle for control of the Strait of Hormuz that has pushed up oil prices to …
POSTED JULY 14, 2026 12:04 PM |
People Moves: Clifford Takes On Expanded Role for NFP’s Construction Unit NFP’s Clifford Named U.S. Brokerage and Account Management Leader Tom Clifford assumed an expanded leadership role as leader of U.S. brokerage and account management in the construction and infrastructure (C&I) group at NFP, an Aon company. Based in New York, …
POSTED JULY 14, 2026 10:48 AM |
Canada Regulator Warns Banks About Cyber Risks of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Canada’s federal banking regulator warned the country’s largest financial institutions about the risks of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and other advanced AI models, saying the new technology could increase cyber threats and reduce the time institutions have to identify and fix …
POSTED JULY 14, 2026 10:16 AM |
KKR Joins US Consortium to Buy Australian Broker Steadfast in $5.3 Billion Deal Australia’s Steadfast said on Tuesday that the global investment firm KKR has joined the consortium of Amwins Group and Dragoneer Investment in their A$7.7 billion ($5.33 billion) proposal to buy out the insurance broker. Here are some more details: KKR …
POSTED JULY 14, 2026 9:57 AM |
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