Heritage grows to $8.5 billion in assets as integration weighs on Q1 bottomline
Total assets increased 22.0% during the quarter to $8.50 billion at March 31, 2026, from $6.97 billion at Dec. 31, 2025.…
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Commercial rate hikes slow in Q1 but stay elevated – Ivans Index
On the carrier side, the data will be weighed against rising claims cost trends. Social inflation, higher jury awards, and…
Georgia bars policy cancellations for non-payment across 91 wildfire-hit counties
The geographic scope of the directive is worth pausing on. It names 91 counties stretching across South Georgia, including Chatham,…
New York targets insurance agents, adjusters, and auto premiums in three new bills
The most substantive of the three is Senate Bill 10017, filed by Senator Bailey on April 22. It targets Section…
Hawai’i court upholds Lloyd’s dismissal in volcanic eruption insurance dispute
The dispute traces back to a volcanic eruption that damaged properties on the island of Hawai’i. Michael W. Hale, along…
Ohio court rules Farmers Insurance appraisal clause kills total-loss class action
Several months later, Stewart filed a class-action complaint alleging that Farmers had breached its policies by using CCC Intelligent Solutions…
Ninth Circuit blows open $162 million legacy policy fight over aggregate limits
The facts go back a long way. During World War II, the federal government leased and later expanded the Chino…
US Fire sues electrical contractor and spouses to claw back $1.8M on bonds
The backstory, as told in the filing, is familiar to anyone who has worked a surety claim. US Fire says it agreed…
Contractor sues Liberty Mutual over denied bond on Detroit school demolition
Dore says it mobilized in February 2025 and, by early June 2025, had completed “approximately 95% of the physical demolition,”…
Texas Farmers hits A.O. Smith with suit over alleged water heater defect
Farmers is pursuing three theories. First, negligence – that A.O. Smith didn’t take reasonable care in designing, testing, and marketing the heater, and didn’t give consumers…
Hartford fights to cap EPL coverage at $5,000 in disability claim
Four days later, on February 2, 2026, Goldstone resigned. The carrier alleges that, on that same day, Scholarships.com signed an…
Farm Bureau asks court to reject Wal-Mart’s $4.7M coverage demand
The story, as Farm Bureau tells it, starts on January 16, 2023, at a Wal-Mart Superstore in Amite, Louisiana. A…