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Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company (WTW) reports developments across its advisory, broking and solutions businesses in people, risk and capital. News commonly covers earnings from Health, Wealth & Career and Risk & Broking, insurance brokerage and risk consulting activity, employee benefits, workplace pensions, benefits delivery and outsourcing, and insurance consulting technology.
Company updates also include product launches such as transactional-risk insurance, catastrophe and reputational-risk research, AI and technology adoption, acquisition integration in brokerage and workplace savings, leadership appointments, share repurchase plans and client or brand partnerships.
WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) announced that its Board approved a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.96 per common share for the quarter ended March 31, 2026.
The dividend is payable on or about July 15, 2026 to shareholders of record at the close of business on June 30, 2026.
WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) reports that in Q1 2026 employers are reshaping talent strategies toward revenue-generating, customer-focused and advanced technology skills. Organizations emphasize sales and relationship management, customer experience, and governance and control capabilities, while embedding AI-related skills and adopting skills-based workforce strategies across functions to support future work transformation.
WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) released survey findings on employer use of AI in health and benefits. Today, 20% of employers actively use AI in benefits, but 72% plan to embed it within two years, mainly for communication (68%), analytics (59%) and personalized support (57%).
However, 71% report limited internal AI resources, 70% cite data privacy and security concerns, 66% worry about AI errors and 64% about legal and fiduciary exposure. Only 1% have a fully developed AI roadmap or governance for benefits, though 56% are developing or exploring one. Early adopters (16%) tend to have clearer strategies and governance frameworks.
Willis, a WTW business (NASDAQ: WTW), announced new growth-focused leadership appointments for Corporate Risk & Broking North America. Michael Butch becomes Growth Operations Leader, and Jim Blaney becomes Growth Enablement Leader, joining Brian Hetherington under Paul Graziano, Chief Growth Officer.
The team is tasked with aligning growth initiatives, enhancing sales execution, and strengthening client engagement across North America.
Willis (NASDAQ:WTW) launched a Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) insurance solution on May 13, 2026. The integrated suite supports CO₂ capture, transportation, and storage projects, offering risk transfer, liability coverage, leakage response, and protection under carbon credit regimes, plus advisory and risk engineering services across project lifecycles.
Willis, a WTW (NASDAQ:WTW) business, released its ninth annual Political Risk Survey Report, showing tariffs remain a leading political risk for companies despite Middle East conflict. 61% of respondents find tariff impacts hardest to manage and report negative financial effects.
The survey highlights rising political and trade credit losses exceeding $250 million for the third year, growing interest in political risk and trade credit insurance, concerns over home-government policies, and preparations for a potentially bifurcated “Eastern” and “Western” global business structure.
Willis (NASDAQ: WTW) released the Insurance Marketplace Realities report on May 7, 2026, describing how geopolitical instability and expanding digital infrastructure are reshaping global insurance markets.
Key findings: Gulf political-risk rates may rise 20–30%, traditional political and trade-disruption rates near +5%, property program rates down up to 15% (single-carrier) and 25% (layered/shared), medical-malpractice top verdicts averaged $56M in 2024, and investor-backed litigation payouts rose 60.5%.
Willis (NASDAQ: WTW) announced a scientific partnership with Cornell University and the Atkinson Center to study correlated natural catastrophes. WTW provided initial one-year funding to model whether major perils have become more synchronized and to project correlated-catastrophe behavior over the next one to five years.
The work will combine large-ensemble climate simulations and statistical analysis to inform insurers and reinsurers about aggregate exposure and geographic-diversification limits in a changing climate.
WTW (NASDAQ:WTW) reports widening global divergence in AI and digital pay as of May 6, 2026. Median total compensation for mid-level Machine Learning roles tops $170,000 in the US, ~$122,000 in Germany and just under $100,000 in the UK. Across ten countries median ML salaries rose ~2% and total compensation ~6%, with Mexico (+19% salaries; +29% total) and Brazil posting double-digit growth while Canada declined. Cloud engineering pay rose median 9% (salary) and 12% (total) across the study. Employers increasingly use short- and long-term incentives and differentiated rewards to retain digital talent.
WTW (WTW) reports specialty insurance rates softened faster than expected in 2025 and at 1 January 2026 renewals, with the SIMS index retreating to 2020 pricing levels. The survey covers about $250 billion of gross written premium (including $45 billion in 2025) and shows a 10-point index decline, a 5% aggregated rate fall gross of claims trend and an 8% decline net of claims trend.
For 1 January 2026 renewals, 75% of 42 material classes showed rate decreases versus 30% in 2024.