Daily Digest: Geopolitics strains cargo insurers, Tariffs to harm premium growth, New Zealand's insurance law overhaul

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Cargo insurers struggle with crisis feedback loop as geopolitical risks surge The cargo insurance industry finds itself caught in an accelerating feedback loop: by responding to rapidly escalating geopolitical risks with their strategy of compressed response times and hair-trigger policy cancellations, insurers may be contributing to the very market volatility they seek to understand and mitigate. This acceleration highlights a growing tension in cargo insurance: annual policies designed for predictable risk assessment struggle with conflicts that can render months of modelling obsolete within hours.