Risk Management Magazine (3/19/2026)
A CNET survey found that only 44% U.S. adults who use social media are ­confident they can tell the difference between real content and content that was created or altered by AI, potentially leaving them vulnerable to disinformation, fraud and abuse. Almost three-­quarters of social media users (72%) take steps to determine if images or videos are legitimate. These actions include looking for visual cues like out-of-place lighting or shadows, distorted hands or skin textures, and odd backgrounds (60%); scanning for labels indicating content was AI-generated (30%); ­searching for the image or video elsewhere online (25%); and using deepfake detection tools (5%). However, 25% of social media users do nothing—including 36% of Boomers and 29% of Generation X.

Reinsurance News (3/19/2026)
Wildfires, severe convective storms and floods drove a record 92% of the $107 billion in global insured catastrophe losses in 2025, with the Los Angeles wildfires alone accounting for $40 billion, according to Swiss Re’s sigma report. Swiss Re warned that a return to long-term trend levels would push 2026 insured losses to $148 billion, with a peak-loss scenario reaching $320 billion.

Carrier Management (3/20/2026)
Assured Research estimates the U.S. P/C industry held more than $20.7 billion in redundant loss reserves at year-end 2025, with private passenger auto and property showing the most favorable positions. The analyst cautioned that favorable reserve development will feed into pricing algorithms in 2026, making rate decreases increasingly likely across several lines.

Business Insurance (3/11/2026)
Provider shortages, specialty backlogs and administrative barriers are increasingly preventing injured workers from getting timely treatment, employers, insurers and regulators say. It's a trend driving up claim duration and severity in workers' compensation. The access problem is compounding existing cost pressures from medical inflation and wage growth in the health care sector.

Reinsurance News (3/20/2026)
Two separate severe convective storm outbreaks in the same week each generated more than $1 billion in insured losses, according to Gallagher Re, marking an active start to peak severe convective storm season. The broker noted that March has consistently produced widespread damaging activity since 2023 and that the peak months fo rSCS losses run through June.

Canadian Underwriter (3/20/2026)
Canadian P&C brokers’ concern about natural catastrophe losses dropped from third to seventh on their list of top challenges in 2026, after Canada’s NatCat claims fell to $2.4 billion last year from a record $9.1 billion in 2024, according to Canadian Underwriter’s 2026 National Broker Survey. The economy and the impact of the Iran conflict on oil prices and claims costs emerged as rising concerns.

CSO Online (3/20/2026)
State-sponsored threat actors no longer need to breach an organization directly. They compromise the telecom routing, cloud services, managed service providers and identity federation layers that enterprises depend on, turning shared infrastructure into intelligence collection points. A former CIA officer argues that CISOs must treat upstream and downstream partners as active components of their threat surface and strengthen visibility across all shared pathways.

Strategic Risk (3/20/2026)
New Allianz Risk Barometer analysis found 51% of more than 3,000 respondents consider a global supply chain paralysis triggered by geopolitical conflict the most plausible Black Swan event of the next five years, with a global internet outage second at 47%. Allianz Research estimates a Ukraine-scale supply chain disruption could cause $1.5 trillion in cumulative GDP losses over two years

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