The Friday Five Boardroom Brief

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Every Friday, three articles on coverage, insurance markets, and emerging risks. Each edition includes three questions to take to your board. A five-minute skim.

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Selected editions

4 September 2026

Kaiser bought a $95M D&O tower and collected $1M. One endorsement did it. And a federal judge just took away the carriers' first argument.

Part one of The Endorsement Audit. How an endorsement restricted payment, and why a later court ruling did not settle the coverage question.

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28 August 2026

90 pages on who grades your carrier's bonds. 4 days to erase 2 years of CA privacy claims. And old fashioned underwriting discipline turns a loss into $57.7M.

A proposed change to bond-rating oversight, a pending California privacy bill, and an insurtech CFO's case for underwriting discipline.

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21 August 2026

A fintech buys the AI pipes. The plaintiff bar shows its hand on AI. And $300 a mo. buys a digital team. We think it's the future of our industry...

What changing AI systems, litigation demands, and digital workers mean for accountability and the records behind insurance decisions.

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