Underwriting
E&S Market Sees 21% Compound Growth Within Past 5 Years: Conning
Excess and surplus (E&S) lines of insurance have experienced unprecedented growth, realizing 21 percent compound annual growth rate over the past five years and surpassing $104 billion in ...
2025 Underwriting Profit and ‘Shop-a-Palooza’ Predicted for Auto Insurance
2024 was another tough year for personal lines insurers and their customers. In this space in late 2023, I wrote that seven of the 10 most read articles of 2023 were about the impacts of inflation ...
Slideshow: Carrier Management’s 2024 Top Editor’s Picks (Unlocked)
Happy New Year! We are unlocking 10 feature articles that we were proud to publish in 2024—my Editor's Picks for 2024. (Free access links to our reader picks—the 10 most-read feature articles of ...
Reporter’s Notebook: ‘Nobody Else Does Telematics,’ Lemonade Exec Says
Executives speaking at Lemonade's Investor Day event late last month made several statements suggesting that their approaches to personal lines insurance set the technology company apart from the ...
Surviving the ‘Silver Tsunami’: Closing the Talent, Skills Gap in Underwriting
With a "silver tsunami" of skilled underwriters eligible to retire in coming years and a shift in employee expectations, recruitment and retention is a critical focus for the insurance industry right ...
Insurers’ Climate Losses Almost Match Premiums From Fossil Fuels
Top insurance companies suffered $10.6 billion of climate-attributed losses this year, just shy of the $11.3 billion of direct premiums they underwrote for commercial fossil-fuel clients in 2023, ...
U.S. Commercial Lines Prices Up About 6% Again: WTW CLIPS
Broker WTW said commercial lines insurance rates increased overall by an average of 6.1 percent during the third quarter 2024. Quarterly price increases have been around 6 percent since the end of ...
Commercial Lines Profit Growth: Execution Matters More Than Portfolio Mix
It is "how" commercial lines carriers execute their underwriting strategies, not "what" lines they write that is key to profitable growth for top performers, according to new research from McKinsey. ...