Feb 11 | Closing Market Report
The Feb 11 Closing Market Report podcast featured insights from Josh Linville of StoneX, a farmdoc Crop Insurance webinar, and weather analysis by Drew Lerner. Linville discussed recent commodity price movements, while the farmdoc session highlighted trends in crop‑insurance premiums and enrollment. Lerner provided a regional weather outlook that could affect planting decisions. The episode wrapped up with actionable takeaways for investors and agribusinesses.
Proactive Claims Litigation Management: Combat Social Inflation & The Sophisticated Plaintiff Bar
The Reuters Events webinar tackled proactive claims litigation management amid rising social inflation and increasingly sophisticated plaintiff tactics. Panelists highlighted how modest claims can balloon into multi‑million verdicts, underscoring the urgency for insurers to rethink traditional claim‑handling approaches. Key insights included...
AM Best: 3Q25 Snapshot – Personal Lines Momentum Continues to Drive P/C Underwriting Result Improv
AM Best’s 3Q 2025 snapshot highlights that personal‑lines momentum is propelling a notable turnaround in property‑casualty underwriting after a volatile start to the year marked by the January California wildfires. The firm’s analysts, Helen Anderson and David Blades, note that direct premiums...
Coalition’s Toomey: Rising Cyber Interconnectedness Pushes Insurers to Boost Detection, Response
Coalition highlighted the rapid cascade from disclosure to exploitation in the recent React-to-Shell vulnerability, which targeted React server components and left Next.js-hosted sites especially exposed. The firm said threat actors began scanning immediately after disclosure and that working exploits appeared...
The Cost of Catastrophe
The panel titled “The Cost of Catastrophe” examined Canada’s unprecedented insured weather losses, which reached $6.29 billion in 2024 – roughly three times the 2023 figure and the highest on record. Participants from Marsh, Gallagher, FM Affiliated and AON discussed how...