Investments

Orion180 Insurance Group Inc. filed for an initial public offering, as the company looks to carve out a bigger share of the specialty homeowners and flood insurance market.

In every weather event, entire regions are described as "impacted" as if risk were evenly distributed across geography. However, on the same street, sometimes even next door, one property suffers significant loss while another holds up.

For investors, "both perils translate into operational risk, earnings volatility and stranded-asset exposure," said Mohsen Rahnama, managing director and head of catastrophe modeling and insurance solutions at Moody's, in a report.

The insurance company's AI investments show early success, but underwriters own the final decision, CEO Christopher Swift said on an earnings call.

With many residents eschewing flood insurance, the floods may, in the long term, hurt the tax base, an analyst said

Despite growing adoption, research shows that agents and brokers struggle to integrate AI into their daily workflows.

Investors debate whether AI will empower brokers, or enable new competitors to challenge traditional distribution models, according to PwC's 2026 midyear outlook.

The public power sector is reacting with concern about the ongoing efforts to reorganize the Federal Emergency Management Agency that's proposing shifting risk and disaster recovery costs onto local utilities.

The counties with the greatest exposure lie along the coasts of Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina and Texas.

Safepoint Holdings Inc and some of its backers are seeking to raise as much as $283.3 million in an initial public offering.

Proposed FEMA reforms could further increase financial strain for state and local governments after natural disasters.

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.

Hacking group ShinyHunters took credit for the data breach that affected the Instructure-owned Canvas learning management system.

The loss of land to the sea in southern Louisiana over the next few decades places more than 1 million people in harm's way, the academics say.

Safepoint Holdings Inc., an underwriter of specialty homeowners and commercial insurance, filed for an initial public offering, disclosing growing profit and revenue.

It is not just about modernizing systems, but about standardizing how transactions are processed and how data is exchanged across the ecosystem.

Researchers examined more than 580,000 municipal bond issues and say the data shows communities with higher wildfire risk pay higher interest rates.

The gap between how insurers invest and measure risk is widening in ways that are often difficult to detect.

PwC's April 2026 survey reveals executives' investment priorities for 2026.

The homeowners insurance market in the U.S. "faces mounting strain from severe climate risk," Benjamin Collier and the other authors said in their commentary.