Posts by Hometown Insurance

As the prospect of flood damage haunts an ever larger number of UK homes, the country’s banks are under growing pressure to prove they’re not underestimating the risk in their mortgage books. Nationwide Building Society — once seen as an …

Zurich Insurance Group AG’s profit rose to a record in 2025, giving Chief Executive Officer Mario Greco a tailwind as he pursues the acquisition of Beazley Plc. Group operating profit rose to $8.9 billion in the year, the company said, …

British entrepreneurship appears to be on the rise, with tens of thousands of new businesses popping up. The problem, for workers, is that these startups are increasingly using artificial intelligence and freelancers instead of taking on permanent staff. New firms …

Gallagher Expands Executive and Financial Risk Practice Leadership Team Gallagher, headquartered in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, appointed new leaders in its executive and financial risk practice. Seth Pfalzer has been appointed senior vice president and national director, joining the practice’s board …

A U.S. federal judge threw out on Tuesday a lawsuit against Buffalo Wild Wings that alleged the restaurant and sports bar chain deceived consumers by selling boneless wings that are not actually de-boned chicken wings. Judge John Tharp Jr. in …

The Travelers Companies announced the launch of AI Claim Assistant, a fully agentic intelligent voice service to handle customer claim calls. The service, developed using OpenAI model capabilities and APIs, uses advanced language and speech recognition technologies, Travelers said, reporting …

Just days before a final committee vote on a bill that would establish a clearinghouse for Citizens’ commercial policies, Florida’s insurance commissioner has offered his own rewrite, one that would give regulators more authority over who runs the clearinghouse and …

At James Monroe Middle School, located in a remote part of California’s High Desert, posters commemorating teacher appreciation week were hung beside porta-potties. They were the only toilets left for faculty members after the campus’s sewage system collapsed last year. …

Private equity firm Aquiline Capital said it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell independent insurance broker Relation to investment firm BayPine. Chicago-based Relation was ranked No. 24 in Insurance Journal’s Top 100 Independent Property/Casualty Agencies report with about …

Verisk’s fourth-quarter profit topped Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, with CEO Lee Shavel touting the quality of the firm’s proprietary data sets amid concerns around AI-driven disruption to the information services business model. The data analytics firm, which also provided …