Prior to this, Bowler was the commissioner of insurance for the Massachusetts Division of Insurance, where she oversaw the regulation, financial solvency and market stability of 100 domestic insurance companies, 1,500 licensed insurance companies and 70,000 insurance producers.
"As a regional and national leader in corporate governance, compliance and regulatory issues, Julie Bowler has developed an outstanding reputation in the insurance industry with her regulatory peers, the companies and agencies she regulated, as well as the reinsurers who support them," says Nick Steffey, chairman and CEO of Narragansett Bay Insurance. "Her affiliation with our company fits precisely with our objective of bringing on board outstanding people with technical leadership, as we grow our presence in the specialty homeowner's market on the Atlantic seaboard."
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Iran has started a Bitcoin-backed insurance service for Iranian shipping companies that want to transit the Strait of Hormuz, the semi-official Fars news agency reported, citing documents obtained from the country's Ministry of Economy and Financial Affairs.
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Only 10% of property and casualty (P&C) insurers are successfully scaling AI, according to the Capgemini Research Institute's World Property & Casualty Insurance Report 2026.
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Hacking group ShinyHunters took credit for the data breach that affected the Instructure-owned Canvas learning management system.
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The 33 companies that made it to this year's Best Fintechs to Work For list are actively preserving remote work options and non-salary benefit packages.
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Just over 44% of consumers report a positive experience with voice AI assistants, according to Sonant's latest report.
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The technology has identified baseball fields as damaged structures, and failed to recognize that pools are contaminated by wildfire ash or flood waters, according to an imagery expert from an insurance intelligence service. Human oversight is essential, he said.
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