CFO / Financial
State Farm Inked $1.5B Underwriting Profit for 2025; HO Loss Persists
State Farm reported an underwriting gain of $1.5 billion for its property/casualty businesses in 2025, representing a turnaround from an underwriting loss of more than $6 billion in 2024—and more ...
How to Keep CFOs From Leaving: Study
Changing corporate strategies are putting more pressure than ever on chief financial officers (CFOs), a change that's reflected in record high turnover of the position in ...
10 Do’s and Don’ts of a Smart ORSA Report
My conversations with carrier CEOs, CFOs, and CROs about enterprise risk management and ORSA--Own Risk and Solvency Assessment—tend to go down the path of strict compliance and a sense of ...
US Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Global Tariffs
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down on Friday President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs that he pursued under a law meant for use in national emergencies, rejecting one of his ...
’25 Deal Counts Drop, Q4 Values Soar: S&P GMI Insurance M&A Analysis
The North American insurance market experienced a decline in the total number and aggregate value of merger and acquisition deals in 2025 compared to 2024, according to S&P Global Market ...
Insurance Groundhogs Warming Up to Market Changes
Spring is not around the corner. It's more than a month away, Punxsutawney Phil predicted on Monday. But what is going to happen to conditions in the property/casualty insurance market? What lines ...
What Analysts Are Saying About the 2026 P/C Insurance Market
Following in the footsteps of groundhog Punxsutawney Phil, analysts from Fitch Ratings and Morningstar DBRS weighed in with these P/C insurance market forecasts in the past week: "Fitch Ratings ...
Earnings Wrap-Up: Expanding Geographies. But First, Underwriting Profit at Selective
Will property/casualty insurers be profitable in 2026? Will market conditions soften? Looking for clues to answer these questions, Carrier Management listened to fourth-quarter 2025 earnings ...