A $2.2 billion underwriting loss in 2025 certainly isn’t anything to celebrate, but when it comes to U.S. commercial auto insurers, there may be a reason to crack a smile. According to a new report from AM Best, the loss was a 55% improvement compared with the prior year. Any improvement is welcomed for a …
The catastrophic mountain flooding in Nepal that killed more than 1,300 people was driven by a complex web of climate and seismic processes that made it nearly impossible to predict, according to an international team of scientists. Rising global temperatures thawed permafrost and thinned glaciers along the Langtang Lirung peak in the Nepalese Himalayas, which, …