Market News

AM Best Warns of Emerging AI Threat to Insurance Data Integrity

October 23, 2025

In Best's Review October 2025, AM Best highlights artificial intelligence (AI) model poisoning as a growing risk to insurers. The article by Lori Chordas explains how manipulated training data can corrupt AI systems, creating undetected errors that threaten underwriting accuracy, data integrity, and operational resilience across the insurance industry. Read More


Using Captive Insurance to Reinsure Surety Bonds: A Growing Opportunity

October 22, 2025

Captive insurance is expanding into surety bond reinsurance, allowing companies to deploy capital more effectively while enhancing risk control and financial flexibility. This emerging strategy enables large, well-capitalized captives to participate as reinsurers, creating new opportunities in alternative risk financing and improving access to the reinsurance market. Read More


Cayman Adds 32 New Insurer Licenses in 2025 Through Third Quarter

October 22, 2025

Cayman's captive insurance sector added 32 new licenses through the third quarter of 2025, signaling continued growth. With 719 licensed insurers and $173 billion in assets, the jurisdiction remains a leading offshore insurance domicile. Upcoming insights will be shared at the Cayman Captive Forum, December 2–4, 2025. Read More


HUB Report Highlights Mixed Market Signals Across US Insurance Lines

October 22, 2025

HUB's 2025 Outlook third quarter Rate Report reveals a shifting US insurance market, with stabilization in property and cyber lines and continued pressure on auto and casualty. The report emphasizes proactive planning, strong risk management, and early renewal strategies as key to securing favorable insurance terms amid economic uncertainty. Read More


Howden Re Report Examines Innovation in a Hard Market Softening Cycle

October 21, 2025

Howden Re's "Who Dares Wins: Innovation in an Era of Hard Market Softening" report examines how reinsurers and cedents can sustain profitability through innovation, diversification, and disciplined underwriting amid easing rates, global volatility, and structural risk premiums that continue to shape the reinsurance market. Read More