Insurance news API
Underwriting, claims, catastrophe exposure and regulation. Pass topic=WB_337_INSURANCE to filter.
What does the insurance topic actually cover?
Underwriting and pricing, catastrophe losses and reinsurance, claims disputes, and insurance regulation and access. A quiet trade-press subject that becomes a general-news subject immediately after a disaster.
How do I filter news to insurance?
Pass topic=WB_337_INSURANCE on /search or /stories. Pair with a country for regulation and access; pair with a time window around an event for catastrophe coverage. The trade press uses precise terms — combined ratio, attachment point, cedant — that general coverage never uses, so keyword queries in general language reach only the general layer.
GET /stories?topic=WB_337_INSURANCE&mode=hybrid&from=2026-07-24&limit=20What catches people out with insurance coverage?
Missing the lag. Catastrophe coverage peaks with the event, but the insurance story — loss estimates, reinsurance repricing, coverage disputes — develops over the following months at much lower volume and in different outlets. A window sized to the disaster captures none of the part that has financial consequences.
Who publishes on it
Insurance and reinsurance trade press, which is detailed, early and almost invisible to general queries. National business press for consumer-facing pricing and access. General press after catastrophes, briefly. Broker and rating-agency commentary carries loss estimates and is positioned.
In the sample, 301 outlets carry insurance coverage at about 1
articles each. The busiest is themarketsdaily.com at roughly 5%,
and themarketsdaily.com, dailypolitical.com, tickerreport.com account for about 10% between them.
Flat enough that volume here translates fairly directly into independent reporting rather than one newsroom publishing repeatedly.
What it is best for
Best for catastrophe loss development, reinsurance pricing and regulatory change — subjects the trade press covers precisely because its readers pay for precision. Weakest for consumer experience of claims, which is under-reported everywhere and surfaces only through litigation or a regulator.
Monitoring it over time
Set two windows after any catastrophe: the event itself, and a much longer one over the subsequent quarter scoped to trade outlets, where loss estimates are revised. The revisions are the story, they arrive quietly, and the initial estimate is usually wrong in a predictable direction.
Which signals pair with insurance?
Topic filtering answers what an article is about. Signals answer how strongly it reads that way and in what register, so combining them is usually sharper than either alone.
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GET /search?topic=WB_337_INSURANCE&signal=finance&signal_min=0.25Recent coverage
From the index on 2026-07-31, in the language each was published in.
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Who covers it
themarketsdaily.com · dailypolitical.com · tickerreport.com · finanznachrichten.de · insurancebusinessmag.com · tribunnews.com · kompas.com · indiatimes.com · insurancejournal.com · kontan.co.id · finanzen.net · inese.es
Counts are provisional pending a snapshot against the API.