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Mapfre to buy Massachusetts insurer for $1.54bn

All-cash deal will create second largest writer of private passenger auto in New England as well as the largest homeowners and commercial auto insurer in the region

Mergers and Acquisitions Property

Santam syndicate continue build-out with senior Volante hires

Africa-based insurer hires Neil Smith to lead new motor division at Lloyd's

London Lloyds

South African insurance law and Ubuntu

Ubuntu is not merely a philosophical ideal – it is an increasingly practical tool for ethical, sustainable, and customer-aligned insurance practice in South Africa

Legal focus South Africa

Favourable market conditions coming to an end, Bain warns

Consultancy says sector will struggle with ‘major strategic challenges’

Property Specialty

The tightening bond between climate and reinsurance

Broker’s natural catastrophe experts explain the ties binding extreme weather events to greater reinsurance capacity

Climate change Hurricane Season

Global commercial insurance rates fall 6% in Q2

Global composite property insurance rates fell by 12% in the second quarter of 2026, broker Marsh says

Property Marsh

US to have below average SCS loss year

High-pressure system in May deflected storm activity from the southeastern US, modelling firm KCC says

Property Losses

Dip in natcat losses masks significant regional impacts: Aon

Broker warns that catastrophe risk is shaped not only by total losses but also by where the events occur and their impacts on people, infrastructure, operations and supply chains

Climate change Property

Chubb Q2 profits climb 15% as CEO warns soft rates ‘spreading’

Global insurance giant reports second-quarter operating income climbs to $2.8bn, as combined ratio trimmed to 83.8%

Casualty Property

Canopius appoints Alioto group COO

Alioto joins from HSBC where she was deputy group chief operating officer

International Canopius

Tariffs and the Middle East conflict add to insurers’ cost pressures

Insurers should look at ways to ringfence or apply limits to volatile cost categories 

Legal focus Strait of Hormuz crisis

Aon lifts data centre programme to $5bn

Programme’s evolution reflects acceleration in investment in artificial intelligence, cloud computing and hyperscale data centres

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