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The SPAC market is showing clear signs of life again, but it’s not the same market retail agents saw just a few years ago. Activity is increasing, capital is returning, and transaction pipelines are rebuilding. At the same time, underwriting discipline, structural complexity, and liability exposure remain firmly in place.

Wildfire exposure is no longer viewed as a seasonal or isolated issue. Across the United States, wildfire losses have become larger, more destructive, and increasingly difficult for insurance markets to predict. In response, regulators, municipalities, and insurance carriers are placing greater focus on mitigation, resilient construction, and long-term catastrophe management.

In Understanding Completed Operations Coverage Needs in Construction, we introduced a hypothetical concrete company. This growing trade contractor faced a coverage gap five years after pouring foundations for a Texas condo complex. Their new carrier denied the claim due to a condo exclusion, and their prior coverage had expired. The question this article will answer is: What should they have done differently? More importantly, what can retail agents do to prevent this scenario from playing out with their own clients?

For the past few years, many property buyers have benefited from increased market competition. Capacity has returned across many segments, rate pressure has eased, and retail agents have more quoting options than they have seen in recent memory.

Stadium construction projects are growing more expensive and complex, with higher stakes than ever before. Amidst labor shortages, supply chain volatility, and financial instability stakeholders are moving forward. Do you have the right strategy, and the right partners, to place coverage on these high-profile mega-projects?

What happens when AI infrastructure fails, and who gets blamed? As data centers evolve to support extreme density, automation, and uptime demands, designers, engineers, and integrators face new professional liability exposures. From cooling failures to integration breakdowns, understanding these risks is critical to protecting both projects and professional balance sheets.

Fewer markets are willing to bet big on large risks in an environment of rising losses, higher claims, and soaring jury verdicts. Still, they’re often willing to offer smaller limits or to participate in positions less likely to be hit by a large loss. That makes quota share deals an increasingly attractive choice for excess programs. Here’s what retailers should know.

Cyber risk is evolving faster than most insurance programs can keep up, but are your clients prepared for what’s next? From ransomware sophistication to regulatory scrutiny, today’s threat landscape demands more than a transactional approach. Here’s what you need to know to stay competitive in 2026 and beyond.

The REDY Index leverages CRC Group’s collection of actionable data—the wholesale industry’s largest. It provides critical
pricing analysis monthly, giving you a snapshot of the marketplace. The REDY Index generates instant intelligence on pricing trends by industry or coverage, enabling our retail partners to set accurate data-driven expectations with their clients. Removing the guesswork empowers CRC team members to negotiate competitively, consistently producing better outcomes, better deliverables, and better results.

The REDY Index leverages CRC Group’s collection of actionable data—the wholesale industry’s largest. It provides critical pricing analysis monthly, giving you a snapshot of the marketplace. The REDY Index generates instant intelligence on pricing trends by industry or coverage, enabling our retail partners to set accurate data-driven expectations with their clients. Removing the guesswork empowers CRC team members to negotiate competitively, consistently producing better outcomes, better deliverables, and better results.

The REDY Index leverages CRC Group’s collection of actionable data—the wholesale industry’s largest. It provides critical
pricing analysis monthly, giving you a snapshot of the marketplace. The REDY Index generates instant intelligence on pricing trends by industry or coverage, enabling our retail partners to set accurate data-driven expectations with their clients. Removing the guesswork empowers CRC team members to negotiate competitively, consistently producing better outcomes, better deliverables, and better results.

The REDY Index leverages CRC Group’s collection of actionable data—the wholesale industry’s largest. It provides critical pricing analysis monthly, giving you a snapshot of the marketplace. The REDY Index generates instant intelligence on pricing trends by industry or coverage, enabling our retail partners to set accurate data-driven expectations with their clients. Removing the guesswork empowers CRC team members to negotiate competitively, consistently producing better outcomes, better deliverables, and better results.

The REDY Index leverages CRC Group’s collection of actionable data—the wholesale industry’s largest. It provides critical pricing analysis monthly, giving you a snapshot of the marketplace. The REDY Index generates instant intelligence on pricing trends by industry or coverage, enabling our retail partners to set accurate data-driven expectations with their clients. Removing the guesswork empowers CRC team members to negotiate competitively, consistently producing better outcomes, better deliverables, and better results.

The REDY Index leverages CRC Group’s collection of actionable data—the wholesale industry’s largest. It provides critical pricing analysis monthly, giving you a snapshot of the marketplace. The REDY Index generates instant intelligence on pricing trends by industry or coverage, enabling our retail partners to set accurate data-driven expectations with their clients. Removing the guesswork empowers CRC team members to negotiate competitively, consistently producing better outcomes, better deliverables, and better results.

The healthcare cyber market is not collapsing, but it is tightening in ways that matter.