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Emirates Airline is offering travel insurance that includes medical coverage for war-related incidents and extended-stay support during disruptions, another example of how Gulf carriers are trying to reboot their businesses now that a US-Iran peace deal is on the table. The package is in effect regardless of government travel advice, according to a company statement released Wednesday. The company is partnering with Travel Guard, acquired by Zurich Insurance Group AG in 2024, to offer coverage that’s comprehensive as well as reassuring, Emirates President Tim Clark said. “With strong demand for travel in summer, we are proud to offer our customers…

World Insurance Associates LLC has acquired the business of ML Ruberton Agency and MLR Risk Management (MLR) of Hammonton, New Jersey. MLR provides personal and commercial property insurance, life and health insurance, and consulting services. Terms of the March 1, 2026 transaction were not disclosed. MLR owner PJ Pullia said the agency will be able to expand its products and services by joining World. World Insurance, based in Iselin, New Jersey, is ranked #14 on Insurance Journal’s Top 100 Independent Property/Casualty Insurance Agencies list. The agency serves clients from more than 250 offices across the U.S. and U.K. Topics Mergers…

The race for the next Oklahoma insurance commissioner narrowed on Tuesday, as Bob Sullivan and Marty Quinn advanced out of the Republican primary to an Aug. 25 runoff. Sullivan, a third-generation insurance professional, was the top vote-getter, receiving about 37% of the vote. Quinn, who previously served in the Oklahoma Legislature, garnered about 28% of the vote. Greta Shuler and Chris Merideth each received about 17%. Bob Sullivan The winner of the Republican primary will face Democrat Craig MacIntyre in the Nov. 3 general election to replace Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready, who is term limited. Sullivan is running on a…

More than 95% of average data breach losses and 90% of average first-party losses are adequately covered by insurance, according to a recent report by Willis, a WTW business. Cyber claims in Focus – Getting value from cyber insurance analyzed 5,500 cyber claims from January 2013 to January 2026 across 95 countries, and around $1 billion in insurer payments. Data breaches are the most frequently reported cyber insurance loss, with malicious data breaches accounting for the majority of incidents. Ransomware losses register the highest financial severity, predominantly driven by the disrupted productivity and prolonged downtime that follows incidents. Third-party vendors…

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport will close on July 4 starting at noon (1600 GMT) due to 250th U.S. anniversary events in the U.S. capital region including a military flyover, according to the regional agency that manages its operations. The airport, located in Arlington, Virginia, near downtown Washington, also will close for several hours on July 3 for rehearsals of those events, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said on Tuesday. The closures will force the cancellation of hundreds of flights. The airport is expected to reopen early on July 5. United Airlines said it has “planned for this restriction and…

It was 180 degrees off the hot trade on Wall Street. Snub Nvidia Corp., the soaring king of artificial intelligence chips. Embrace Adobe Inc., a sinking casualty of AI disruption. Polen Capital did just that, and more, until it was too late. Now, executives are struggling to contain the damage. Based in Boca Raton, Florida, Polen is on no one’s list of industry behemoths. But the nearly half-century-old firm offers a prime example of how missing one big winner can swing fortunes in the AI boom. In just four years, its assets have plunged by 60%, or almost $50 billion.…

Several of the skydivers killed when their plane crashed moments after taking off from a Missouri airfield were experienced jumpers, including a leader at one of the sport’s biggest organizations. Federal investigators were at the crash site, about an hour south of Kansas City, on Monday, a day after the plane carrying a pilot and 11 skydivers slammed into a field and burst into flames, killing all on board, authorities said. Some family members of those who died were at the airport to watch the jump and witnessed the crash, said Bates County Sheriff Chad Anderson. Authorities have not released…

A tropical storm developed off the coast of Texas on Wednesday, bringing a multiday heavy rainfall event across the Gulf Coast states. Tropical Storm Arthur, the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, is forecast to move northeastward along the west Gulf into Louisiana and Mississippi, the National Weather Service said. The storm could produce maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and rainfall of 5 to 10 inches. Widespread showers and thunderstorms are expected Wednesday in southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana. Areas along the Gulf will see heavy rainfall of 1.5 inches to 3 inches/hour. A significant flash flood…

The 2026 catastrophe season will face a more distributed and harder-to-predict risk landscape than carriers have historically planned for, according to a new report by global claims administrator Sedgwick. The complex nature could make claims harder to manage, more expensive to resolve, and more likely to drift, the 2026 Catastrophe Season Playbook outlined. “The 2025 season may have felt quieter on the surface, but what it actually revealed was a more distributed and persistent form of risk, and one that doesn’t announce itself the way a major hurricane does,” said David Armstrong, executive vice president at Sedgwick. “2026 is shaping…

A former Citigroup executive alleged in a lawsuit that the bank fired her in retaliation for identifying regulatory and compliance risks that, according to a Financial Times report on Tuesday, were related to Citi’s efforts to court U.S. President Donald Trump as a client. The complaint filed in Brooklyn federal court on Monday is heavily redacted but includes allegations that the former executive was fired shortly after raising concerns about the internal process for potentially taking on a client. The Financial Times reported the client was Trump, citing people familiar with the dispute. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report.…