Abigail Kai

The passage of SB 2 and HB 1207 by the Virginia General Assembly has fundamentally altered the landscape of workplace benefits across the Commonwealth, establishing a comprehensive statewide Paid Family and Medical Leave insurance program that balances economic stability with employee welfare. This

The traditional image of the Japanese insurance sector as a bastion of conservative fiscal management and unwavering integrity has been shattered by the unveiling of an unprecedented fraud case at Sony Life Insurance. This massive breach of trust, originating from the company’s Yokohama branch, has

Stolen keys, cloned signals, and contracts stretched past their limits have converged to create a fraud surface that traditional tracking tools scarcely touch, and UK operators are feeling the strain as losses spread from brazen theft to subtle misuse that looks legitimate until it isn’t. Fleet

A single misstep in a complex benefits process can ripple from a mine portal to the federal ledger, and the Fourth Circuit’s latest ruling showed how a recordkeeping lapse turned a private obligation into a public expense by redirecting a miner’s award to the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund. The

A breach clock did not start ticking when malware landed; it started the moment an insurer compared the security posture that was promised on an application with the controls that actually governed identities, endpoints, and backups across production systems. Cyber insurance has changed fast,

Coloradans facing relentless premium notices saw a concrete target this week: an average $800 reduction in annual homeowners insurance costs paired with a plan to keep private coverage available as wildfire, hail, and severe storms intensify across the state. Governor Jared Polis, working with the

When families measure protection not by glossy brochures but by whether cash arrived when chemo did, whether income stayed steady when layoffs hit, and whether inheritances reached the right hands without drama, the old game of selling policies for this quarter’s tally suddenly feels small. At the

Every claim that zips through a digital workflow on the strength of photos and forms now travels alongside adversaries who can fabricate scenes, polish narratives, and slip synthetic artifacts past casual checks unless the journey is designed to challenge them. That reality has not dampened the

Abigail Kai sits down with Simon Glairy, a veteran of insurance coverage and Insurtech who has spent decades untangling legacy umbrella forms, aggregate limits, and environmental liabilities. In this conversation, Simon unpacks what the Ninth Circuit’s April 23, 2026 decision really does to

Relentless premium spikes have forced homeowners to budget for insurance like a second mortgage, with Colorado’s costs rising faster than almost anywhere and availability anxieties creeping into day-to-day decisions about where families can safely live and invest. That pressure set the stage for a