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The surety put escrow controls in place - so how did the money slip through?


A surety's playbook for managing a troubled contractor worked — until it allegedly didn't.

Frankenmuth Insurance Company filed suit on February 12, 2026, in the US District Court for the District of Maryland, accusing contrac...


02/16/2026 11:44 PM

In a Federal Register Notice (FRN) published on February 13,2026, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced a proposed rule to require the submission of bonds to be done electronically in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE).

This proposed rule aims to improve the bond process by “redu...

02/16/2026 02:26 PM

The insurance industry is often described as slow to innovate. The diagnosis is familiar, and so is the prescription: better portals, better dashboards, better user experiences. Every year brings a new wave of front-end solutions promising to "modernize" an industry that has existed for ce...
02/15/2026 08:48 AM

J.D. Power says the number of people purchasing insurance digitally is on the rise. The The Digital Insurance Predictions 2026 survey finds 44% of insurance policy buyers are now getting their insurance via those channels.

On the 1,000 point scale, digital customers are ranking their experience at 80...

02/12/2026 05:42 PM

US insurance broker stocks were pummeled Monday as the launch of an artificial intelligence tool from privately held online insurance shopping platform Insurify sparked fears about the industry facing disruption.

The S&P 500 Insurance index closed down 3.9%, in its biggest drop since October. Ins...

02/11/2026 08:35 PM