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Weekly Articles

Legal Spend & Litigation Monitor

Defense costs are climbing for 76% of claims teams, nuclear verdicts jumped 40.7%, and AI is shifting from adoption to accountability.

Sep 25, 2026

GLP-1 Vision-Loss Claims: Assessing a Rare, Serious Injury

Regulators call NAION a very rare semaglutide side effect. The studies disagree, and that gap is exactly what makes these claims hard to evaluate.

Sep 24, 2026

Reinsurance Recoverables and Schedule F Penalties

Insurers are owed $418B by reinsurers, up 30% since 2020. When collections slip, the statutory penalty hits surplus — not just cash flow.

Sep 18, 2026

Emerging Mass Tort Monitor

Federal mass-tort inventories kept climbing in September, led by a 265% year-to-date jump in Depo-Provera and a new MDL for PFAS firefighter gear.

Sep 11, 2026

The Data Center Insurance Boom: Understanding the Claims Challenges Ahead

Texas and Virginia hold 40% of US data center capacity. One storm could trigger claims across property, BI, cyber and construction at once.

Sep 4, 2026

Roofing Contractors and Rising Claim Severity: What Insurers Need to Know

Roof claim volume is falling, but replacement costs are up 33%. Why contractor decisions — and questionable ones — are driving severity higher.

Aug 21, 2026

Improving Catastrophe Claims Performance

Five things separate claims teams that hold up under catastrophe surge from those that don't — and the data on what each one costs when it slips.

Aug 13, 2026

Controlling Legal Spend in Captive Programs

Captives exist to give you control. Once a claim hits litigation, that control splits four ways — and legal spend stops answering to anyone.

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