Reading time: 6 minutes Here's your Friday Five: Every week our team rips through 200+ insurance, legal, regulatory, and market-risk articles so you don't have to! 🎧 Listen to this week's edition Special edition this week. We gave the full review hour to a single book timed for the semi-quincentennial: America 250: The History of Insurance and Insurance Coverage Law and Litigation in the United States, by Scott Seaman, Pedro Hernandez, and Peter Lewis of Hinshaw & Culbertson. America turns...
10 days ago • 8 min read
Reading scan time: 6 minutesListen time: 6 minutes Your Friday Five: Every week our team rips through 200+ insurance, legal, regulatory, and market-risk articles so you don't have to! Three reasons to read this week... Regional and mutual insurers: Google just intercepted the first cyberattack built entirely by AI. It targeted the same open-source code your TPAs and core system vendors build on. Inside: what it targeted, how they caught it, and the one question to ask your top three vendors...
17 days ago • 9 min read
Reading time: 6 minutesListening time: 6.5 minutes AI-generated phishing emails now achieve a 54% click-through rate, 4.5 times higher than human-written phishing scams. They can clone your CEO's voice on a phone call and deepfake your CFO on a Zoom call. One documented case: a single deepfake voice scam extracted $25.6 million from one firm. Three reasons to read this edition. The attacks have moved beyond email. A third of all 2025 social engineering incidents never touch an inbox. If your...
19 days ago • 6 min read
Reading scan time: 5 minutesListen time: 5 minutes Here's your Friday Five: Every week our team rips through 200+ insurance, legal, regulatory, and market-risk articles so you don't have to! Three events are poised to move the global insurance markets this week... Anthropic released 10 agent templates built for financial services. Verisk plugged its ISO loss-cost data directly into the same platform. Three other connectors matter to FI buyers: D&B, S&P Capital IQ, and Moody's. A...
24 days ago • 9 min read
Reading scan time: 5 minutesListen time: 5 minutes Here's your Friday Five: Every week our team rips through 200+ insurance, legal, regulatory, and market-risk articles so you don't have to! Three unusual articles caught our attention this week... Fair warning: this edition takes a less conventional path. One article involves your morning coffee. Another involves unidentified objects in the sky. Ya, UFOs. Stick with us. It all connects at the end. The U.S. insurance industry consumes an...
about 1 month ago • 7 min read
Reading time: 6 minutesListening time: 9 minutes Our line-by-line Silent AI audit continues This is Part 3 of our three-part Wednesday Intelligence series, The Six-Line Silent AI Audit. This is the final installment and the complete reference document. Part 1 covered where wrongful act definitions break on AI-reliant board decisions and algorithmic discrimination claims in D&O and EPL policies. Part 2 mapped E&O and Cyber where the professional/product boundary is unsettled, deepfake wire...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
Reading scan time: 5 minutes Your Friday Five: After the team reviewed 200+ insurance, legal, regulatory, and market-risk articles so you didn't have to, here is the week's top three! 1,822 privacy class actions filed in 2025. Seven per business day. And plaintiff firms are now filing complaints before the target's own response team finishes its first memo. One TPA breach dragged six insurance carriers into a single class action. $6 million settlement. 1.6 million people in the class. None of...
about 1 month ago • 9 min read
Reading scan time: 5 minutesListening time: 7 minutes Your Friday Five: Every week our team rips through 200+ insurance, legal, regulatory, and market-risk articles so you don't have to! We're opening this edition with our own analysis. The governance standard has shifted, and most FI boards are operating on a definition that no longer matches what regulators, courts, and carriers are measuring. Liberty Mutual's CIO is rewiring a $50 billion insurer around AI with governance first, technology...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
Reading time: 4 minutes Our line-by-line Silent AI audit continues The operational lines are next. This is Part 2 of our ongoing three-part Wednesday Intelligence series, The Six-Line Silent AI Audit. Part 1 mapped D&O and EPLI coverage issues. AI-washing is already an SEC enforcement action, and algorithmic discrimination produces claims that don't trigger your EPLI form's coverage definition. If you missed it, the link is at the bottom. Part 2 moves to E&O and Cyber. These are the lines...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read