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1/1 Renewals: ‘They Got Done’; Carrier Overreliance on Reinsurers Corrected
When an AM Best analyst said, "Apparently, things didn't go that bad" to describe 1/1 reinsurance renewals during an online briefing on Monday, he wasn't actually saying anything unique. Carlos ...
Investment Activities Don’t Cut It; Underwriters Create Value: ACORD
"Sustainable value creators" among the 100 largest property/casualty insurance carriers generated more value through underwriting than through investment activities over a 20-year study period, ...
Social Media Buzz: Top LinkedIn Posts About Carrier Management News
Throughout the past week, we have devoted portions of our daily newsletters to republishing news and feature articles that were the most viewed by members of the Carrier Management audience. But ...
What to Expect: Commercial Insurance Rates Stabilizing, WTW Forecasts
With last year's 25 percent rate hikes for public directors and officers liability insurance dropping to 2.5 percent, and 150 percent hikes for cyber cover sinking to 25 percent, significant ...
New and Age-Old Topics: Carrier Management’s Most-Read 2022 Features
Are we there yet? The question, most typically asked by restless children on a long car trip, kept popping into my mind as I interviewed a group of commercial insurance underwriting leaders and ...
Reflections on Auto Insurance: CM’s Top 10 News Stories of 2022
The list of top news stories for 2022 leaves little doubt about what our readers cared most about in the last 12 months. Auto insurance is a focus of 8 of the 10 most-viewed news stories published by ...
State Farm Will Start Hiking Auto Rates, Allstate CEO Predicts
Allstate's chief executive officer said his company will likely continue pushing for auto insurance rate hikes next year, and he expects the carrier's largest mutual competitor—State Farm—to move ...
Small Biz Commercial Underwriting Needs Real-Time Data, Transparency: NeuralMetrics CEO
Name, address, and email or website. Those are the bits of information that InsurTech data provider NeuralMetrics needs to deliver a classification code and risk insights about small businesses to ...