5+ hour, 50+ min ago  (556+ words) Utah homeowners are paying far more for insurance as wildfire risk rises and new housing continues to spread into exposed areas. Homeowners insurance premiums in the state have increased 59% since 2021, according to the Utah Office of the Legislative Fiscal Analyst....

5+ hour, 58+ min ago  (520+ words) Missouri insurance regulator Angela Nelson urged homeowners to review their flood risk and insurance coverage after a rare flash flood emergency hit parts of south-central Missouri, according to Beinsure. Torrential rain triggered widespread flooding and forced major rescue operations across…...

22+ hour, 53+ min ago  (427+ words) California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara adopted a new workers’ compensation advisory pure premium rate of $1.65 per $100 of payroll, raising the benchmark by 6.6% from the 2025 approved rate, according to Beinsure. The decision aims to preserve business access to workers’ compensation insurance…...

23+ hour, 5+ min ago  (446+ words) Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond sued Allstate Corp., accusing the insurer of reducing payouts to homeowners who filed wind and hailstorm damage claims. The complaint says Allstate used claims practices designed to limit payments and protect corporate profits. Drummond filed…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (537+ words) Honeycomb Insurance, a deep-tech property and casualty digital insurer specializing in tailored coverage for landlords and condominium associations, began writing policies in Nevada and Oregon, expanding its digital landlord and condominium association insurance platform into another western US market. The…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (300+ words) Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation creating a commercial insurance clearinghouse designed to move eligible policies from Citizens Property Insurance Corporation into the surplus lines market, according to BestWire. The new law, previously introduced as Senate Bill 1028, allows surplus lines…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (513+ words) The US faces a widening gap between rising flood risk and low flood insurance take-up, leaving households and local governments exposed to major financial losses. A new Moody’s whitepaper estimates aggregated uninsured flood losses could exceed $375 bn in a 1-in-100-year…...

4+ week, 5+ hour ago  (625+ words) Homeowners insurance premiums in Alberta increased nearly fivefold over 20 years, the largest rise recorded in any Canadian province, according to new Statistics Canada data. The study found that Alberta homeowners insurance premiums rose 391.6% between December 2005 and December 2025. More recently, premiums…...

4+ week, 7+ hour ago  (730+ words) California’s next insurance commissioner is likely to continue efforts to reform the state’s strained homeowners insurance market, regardless of which remaining candidate wins the race. Democrats Jane Kim and Ben Allen have advanced to the 3 November election for California insurance…...

4+ week, 10+ hour ago  (534+ words) Hippo Holdings has completed the placement of its 2026 reinsurance program, effective 1 June 2026. The renewal marks a structural shift from program-level reinsurance placements toward a consolidated corporate-level catastrophe structure. The new structure better reflects how Hippo manages its business across a…...