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Canada Regulator Warns Banks About Cyber Risks of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos
Canada’s federal banking regulator warned the country’s largest financial institutions about the risks of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and other advanced AI models, saying the new technology could increase cyber threats and reduce the time institutions have to identify and fix …
POSTED JULY 14, 2026 10:16 AM |
KKR Joins US Consortium to Buy Australian Broker Steadfast in $5.3 Billion Deal
Australia’s Steadfast said on Tuesday that the global investment firm KKR has joined the consortium of Amwins Group and Dragoneer Investment in their A$7.7 billion ($5.33 billion) proposal to buy out the insurance broker. Here are some more details: KKR …
POSTED JULY 14, 2026 9:57 AM |
People Moves: The Baldwin Group Hires Pierce as West Regional President for Insurance Advisory Solutions
The Baldwin Group announced the appointment of Phil Pierce as west regional president for its Insurance Advisory Solutions (IAS) segment. This appointment further underscores the firm’s sustained growth as well as the evolving scale of its IAS business. In this …
POSTED JULY 14, 2026 7:00 AM |
FDA Urges Infant-Formula Makers to Tighten Supplier Oversight After Product Recalls
The U.S. FDA on July 13 urged the infant-formula industry and supply-chain partners to exercise substantive oversight of their suppliers following multiple product recalls and recent botulism cases – the first outbreaks in the country linked to baby formula in …
POSTED JULY 14, 2026 5:06 AM |
Florida Property Tax Cut Plan Relies on Population Boom That Has Slowed Dramatically
From 2020 to 2024, Florida’s population grew by 8.5%, from 21.6 million to 23.4 million. This is nothing new: The state’s warm weather, amenities that include world-class golf courses and beaches, and lack of income tax have long attracted newcomers, …
POSTED JULY 14, 2026 5:04 AM |
20 Years After Hurricane Katrina: Are Insurers Ready for a Different $100B Disaster?
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near Buras-Triumph, Louisiana, as a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 125 mph. It had previously reached Category 5 intensity over the Gulf of Mexico, peaking at 175 mph, before weakening …
POSTED JULY 14, 2026 5:02 AM |
Philadelphia Area Digs Out From Damage Left by Microburst Storms
Residents in some Philadelphia neighborhoods and surrounding counties were cleaning up Sunday from widespread damage caused by a line of severe, short thunderstorms that passed through. The storms, called microbursts, passed through Saturday afternoon, downing trees and power lines, flooding …
POSTED JULY 14, 2026 5:00 AM |
Markets/Coverages: Clach Casualty Seeks Habitational Properties in NY Free Trade Zone
Clach Casualty Underwriting Managers, a part of Ryan Specialty Underwriting Managers, has launched an admitted general liability real estate program designed specifically for habitational properties within New York’s Free Trade Zone. “Placing complex New York habitational risks can be uniquely …
POSTED JULY 14, 2026 5:00 AM |
New York Construction Scare Shows Challenges of Converting Offices to Housing
When two steel columns buckled this week inside the former Pfizer headquarters in midtown Manhattan, the scare prompted evacuations and halted work on one of the nation’s largest office-to-apartment conversions. It also highlighted the complex engineering behind adaptive reuse projects, …
POSTED JULY 14, 2026 5:00 AM |
After Losing Job and Crypto, Man Falsely Claimed $1.3M From 107 Class Actions
An upstate New York man has been accused of receiving more than 27,000 payments totaling more than $1.3 million from approximately 107 different class action lawsuit settlements between January 2022 and December 2025. According to court documents, the man admitted …
POSTED JULY 14, 2026 5:00 AM |
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