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One week before my double mastectomy, I stood in a friend’s living room wearing a platinum-blonde wig, fake eyelashes, a sequined mini skirt and two enormous pink balloons, which were masquerading as Dolly Parton’s breasts. There was something wonderfully absurd about it because in seven days, surgeons would remove the breasts I’d lived with for…
SiriusPoint Ltd., a global specialty underwriter, has reported a rise of 13.7% or $119 million in gross written premium (GWP) to $990.6 million for the third quarter of 2026, compared to $871.6 million in Q3’25, driven by growth across the insurance & services segment, slightly offset by the exit of an international A&H programme. For…
NN Group, a Dutch international financial services provider operating across insurance, pensions, banking and investment management, has confirmed that Tjeerd Bosklopper is set to become its next Chief Executive Officer (CEO), following the planned departure of David Knibbe in March 2027. The company said its Supervisory Board has put forward Bosklopper, who currently leads NN…
“I’m double-jointed!” That’s what my middle school classmate proudly proclaimed after demonstrating how she could bend her arm back in a way that made me wince. Turns out, being “double-jointed” is not really a thing. “Double joints aren’t real,” Dr. Maryellen Brucato, a board-certified foot and ankle surgeon, and podiatrist, told HuffPost. “You do not…
HCI Group, Inc., a Tampa-based insurance holding company, has reported a rise of 5% in gross premiums earned for the third quarter of 2026 to $316 million, compared with $301 million in Q3’025. For 9M’26, gross premiums earned were up 7% to $963 million, compared to $904 million for 9M’25. For both periods, the increase…
Matt Damon has shared that his wife underwent brain surgery just days before the 2024 Oscars. During a new interview with GQ for its Men Of The Year issue, the Odyssey star recalled that shortly before that year’s Academy Awards – where his previous Christopher Nolan collaboration Oppenheimer was the big success story of the…
Donald Trump “hates” the Republican Party and they hate him back, according to the president’s former press secretary Anthony Scaramucci. Speaking to HuffPost UK, Scaramucci – who was fired after just 11 days in the White House back in 2016 – welcomed the US midterm results after Trump’s party was brutally punished by American voters….
HDI Global, the corporate and specialty insurance business of the HDI Group, has appointed Ashwin Kapoor as Head of Political Violence and Terrorism (PV&T) and Tom Brown as Underwriting Manager at HDI Global UK & Ireland, effective 1 December 2026. The appointments aim to strengthen the firm’s specialist underwriting expertise and expand its crisis management…
James Norton plays Santa as you’ve never seen him before in Marks & Spencer’s brand new Christmas advert. On Friday morning, the retailer unveiled its festive ad campaign, featuring the House Of The Dragon actor as an undercover Father Christmas. In the ad, Santa – after a bit of encouragement from Mrs Claus, played by…
A painful and shameful secret I held onto for 52 years is now out in the world. HuffPost recently published my essay about being gang-raped as a freshman at a fraternity house at Syracuse University and my subsequent dismissal from art school. I had kept silent about what happened to me for more than half…