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4:15

Mining Insurance Market Stays Competitive Despite...

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2026/02/27

BestWire News Editor Dave Pilla reports that abundant global capacity and growing competition are driving lower rates and broader terms in the mining insurance sector, even as recent natural catastrophe losses and mounting liability exposures heighten underwriting challenges.

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9:34

INTX’s Lewis: Radical Automation Shapes Future of...

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2026/02/25

Rob Lewis, CEO, INTX Insurance Software, discusses how Chubb’s aggressive automation strategy reflects deeper structural shifts in insurance technology, workforce skill demands and the growing necessity for unified, modern core systems to enable real AI-driven transformation.

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6:43

AM Best: Surplus Lines Market Premium Moderates...

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2026/02/24

AM Best Associate Director David Blades discusses a new Best's Special Report that finds E&S premium market growth increased by 9.7% through the third quarter of 2025, down from 13.5% in 2024, reflecting the impact of competitive market pressures.

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4:27

MGAs Tighten Discipline as Softer Market Signals Emerge

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2026/02/23

AM Best Senior Associate Editor Terrence Dopp discusses the early signs of a softening MGA market, the renewed focus on underwriting discipline and capital management, plus how closer alignment with carriers and reinsurers could shape the sector through 2026.

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61:12

AM Best’s Briefing – Health: Medicare Advantage –...

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2026/02/20

AM Best and industry experts share their 2026 outlook on the Medicare Advantage business segment, including the key drivers. (Event Date: January 15, 2026)

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7:56

AM Best: Administration’s Executive Order Could...

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2026/02/19

Associate Director David Blades and Associate Analyst Alexander Winant, both of AM Best, discuss a new Best's Commentary that finds the executive order doesn’t immediately resolve insurance issues for cannabis-related businesses, but the move to reclassify marijuana under federal law could be a significant step for the insurance market.

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10:44

Issues & Answers: The Future of Protection

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2026/02/12

Mark Berven, president and chief operating officer, Nationwide Property and Casualty, said that within the next decade, as much as 70% of job skills could be completely different than what they are today.

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4:24

AM Best: 3Q25 Snapshot – Personal Lines Momentum...

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2026/02/11

AM Best Associate Director David Blades and Industry Research Analyst Helen Andersen discuss a new Best's Special Report that finds a benign 2025 Atlantic hurricane season was predominant factor in the P/C industry's enhanced performance through the first nine months of 2025.

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26:14

Coalition’s Toomey: Rising Cyber Interconnectedness...

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2026/02/10

Joe Toomey, vice president, underwriting security, Coalition, discusses emerging cyber vulnerabilities such as React2Shell, and how insurers help clients strengthen resilience and manage evolving risk.

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5:34

NFIP Misses Deadline Again as DHS Funding Fight Fuels...

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2026/02/09

AM Best Senior Associate Editor Steve Hallo explains how short-term extensions, political battles over DHS funding and immigration policy disputes have left the National Flood Insurance Program in limbo, impacting policyholders and major flood insurers.

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14:11

Tuned’s Aronson: Hearing Health Poised to Become a...

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2026/02/05

Danny Aronson, co-founder and CEO of hearing health specialist Tuned, explains how preventative digital hearing care can improve productivity, reduce health care costs, and close an overlooked gap in employer benefits, positioning hearing health alongside dental and vision as foundational offerings.

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20:40

Author: Navigating the Unknown Is Essential for...

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2026/02/04

Cambridge statistics Professor David Spiegelhalter discusses in his book, The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk, and Luck, how insurers use probability and risk assessment to navigate threats and make informed underwriting decisions.

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5:23

AM Best: Global Reinsurance Market Segment Outlook...

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2026/02/03

AM Best Senior Director Michael Lagomarsino discusses a new Best's Market Segment Report that finds reinsurance pricing is softening at an accelerating pace in property lines, but overall market conditions support underwriting profitability and solid overall operating performance in 2026.

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9:52

College Professor Sydnor: How Emerging Technologies...

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2026/02/02

Justin Sydnor, department chair of risk and insurance, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison, discusses new research on how artificial intelligence, data analytics and automation are transforming risk assessment, consumer behavior and the long-term value proposition of insurance.

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61:13

AM Best’s Briefing – Health: Medicare Advantage –...

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2026/01/30

AM Best and industry experts share their 2026 outlook on the Medicare Advantage business segment, including the key drivers. (Event Date: January 15, 2026)

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18:28

Triple-I CEO: A Year After the L.A. Wildfires,...

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2026/01/29

Sean Kevelighan, CEO, Insurance Information Institute, discusses how insurers are shifting from recovery to resilience one year after the L.A. wildfires, applying lessons learned to promote smarter rebuilding and enhance wildfire preparedness.

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5:07

AM Best: Non-Life Runoff – An Evolving Reinsurance...

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2026/01/28

AM Best Associate Director Dan Hofmeister discusses a new Best's Special Report that finds the non-life runoff market continues to exhibit healthy transaction volumes, but its composition is becoming increasingly concentrated.

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12:35

Beagle’s Vacquier: Winter’s Deep Freeze Is Heating Up...

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2026/01/27

Paul Vacquier, CEO, Beagle Services, discusses how severe winter freezes are fueling costly water-damage claims, and why monitored leak detection is key to preventing losses.

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12:52

Amwins Co-Presidents: Market Report Highlights...

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2026/01/26

Amwins co-presidents Sam Bagg and Jeff McNatt break down where pricing pressures are easing, how capacity and E&S submissions are evolving across key lines, and why AI, tort reform, and geopolitical risk will shape insurance strategies this year and in the future.

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8:58

AM Best: Lower P/C Expenses Boost Underwriting Results

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2026/01/22

AM Best Senior Industry Research Analyst Christopher Graham and Associate Analyst Alexander Winant discuss a new Best's Special Report that finds the annual change in the industry's underwriting expense ratio is much less than year-to-year variability in its loss and loss adjustment expense ratio.

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