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A top AssuredPartners dealmaker just took the wheel of a rival, PE-backed broker

Paul Vredenburg spent 14 years building the deal machine that made AssuredPartners a $13 billion success. Now he's running Third Wave Insurance - and his move, alongside a new AXA...

How AI is Changing Insurance Document Research

The information insurance professionals need is often already within their organization’s files. The challenge is finding the right details quickly enough to act on them. Answering...

Vertosoft Awarded VITA Software VAR Contract to Support Commonwealth of Virginia Software Procurement

YC-backed Soteris Comes Out of Stealth to Help P&C Insurers Make Millions More From the Book They Already Have

Despite US P&C insurers having just posted their best underwriting year in decades, a YC-backed startup has revealed a blind spot cutting into insurers' profits – and has lau...

AI moves into benefits plan setup as platforms race to automate configuration

From Selerix to Vertafore, benefits administration platforms are targeting the most manual part of the workflow

How Ben Williams Insurance Group went from paper and pen to instant answers

Key Takeaways A client call is only as fast as the information behind it – digging through carrier portals, spreadsheets and old notes costs real time on every single call EVA Acco...

Three ways AI is reshaping independent insurance agencies

AI is changing the independent insurance channel right before our eyes. It’s happening so fast and so drastically that it can be hard to see where the end point is. According to Ja...

Are Software Vendors Holding Insurers Hostage? Build Your Own, Webinar Says

Some software-as-service vendors are holding insurance companies on a tight leash, charging them huge annual fees for upgrades and for the privilege of accessing their own data, ac...

Turning MGA Growth into Staying Power

The success of MGAs needs little introduction. For the past several years, the MGA story has been one of growth, and that trend appears to be continuing, with Conning reporting the...

Bold Penguin CEO: parametric is 'a good bet' for small commercial

Peter Settel wants to slip trigger-based cover into everyday commercial sales, long before most agents or clients go looking for it

The Hartford closes Equitable benefits deal - $500m in premium, but the tech was the point

The Hartford acquires Equitable Holdings’ employee benefits unit as the carrier race for SME scale and benefits administration technology intensifies

Insurtech sells another Michigan benefits agency as divestiture strategy continues

Reliance Global Group has sold Altruis Benefit Consulting for $8 million as it shifts capital away from traditional benefits distribution

Why Every Commercial-Lines Agency Needs AI Risk Fluency

Over the past year, artificial intelligence has quietly moved from experimentation to everyday business operations. Companies have formalized their AI use for everything from draft...

Insurance moves: Willis, Ames & Gough, Acturion, Arbella and FutureProof

FutureProof is moving from MGA to full-stack carrier - and the man running that build scaled Slide Insurance to more than $1 billion in premium in three years

Vertosoft and Civic Roundtable Partner to Expand Access to Purpose-Built Government Operations Technology

Bridgepoint acquires majority stake in insurance-tech platform VIPR from Tenzing

Founded in 2009, London-based VIPR processes around 500,000 bordereaux annually, representing about $12 billion in gross written premium across the global insurance market. The pos...

Atlas VMS acquires CloseClear.ai

Atlas plans to integrate the platform's monitoring capabilities into AIM-Port as a premium offering

Jensten to acquire tech-focused broker Venture Risks Group

It's Jensten's fifth acquisition since January, continuing a rapid pace of broker consolidation under Bain Capital

From Uncertainty to Underwriting: How Specialty Markets Arise

Insurance has always been about helping people and businesses navigate uncertainty. And the industry has continually adapted to protect new risks as they emerge. Many of today’s es...

Ascend Announces Inaugural Finance and Operations Executive Summit, Altitude 2027

SAN FRANCISCO — September 15, 2026 — Ascend, the leading financial operations platform for the insurance industry, today announced Altitude by Ascend, a new gathering for senior in...

The Agentic Agency: Changing How Agency Work Gets Done

For all the attention artificial intelligence is getting in insurance, the fundamental value of the independent agency hasn’t changed. Clients still need insurance professionals wh...

WTW deepens commercial lines ICT bench with MGA underwriting veteran

Darrel Beaton joins from Effectus Insurance, where he served as chief underwriting officer for 16 years

A $2.7 billion AI health platform is moving into brokers' core SME market

With $600m raised and 120% year-on-year growth, Angle Health is scaling fast in exactly the market where brokers hold their strongest foothold

Brokers spend millions validating data - Applied's SVP of product on fixing the problem

Matt Lane has spent three years mapping every friction point in the broker workflow. What he found - and what he is building in response - goes well beyond a software upgrade