Underwriting
Property-Cat Reinsurance Rates Will Stop Dropping Post-Wildfires: Execs
RenaissanceRe expects to incur about $750 million in losses from the January 2025 California wildfires—and anticipates that industrywide impacts should halt the drop in property-catastrophe ...
Delos Insurance Solutions Tackles a Nonstandard Peril: Wildfire
Kevin Stein believes that wildfires no longer fit into the standard insurance market. Stein is the CEO of Delos Insurance Solutions, an MGA that focuses on homeowners insurance in California. When he ...
How Competitive Is E&S Property? Exec Views Vary
E&S property insurance market conditions were a recurring talking point on two recent earnings conference calls, but the leaders of specialty insurers offering commentary were not perfectly in ...
NY Proposes Plan to Stabilize Broken Taxi Insurance Market
New York Governor Kathy Hochul proposed measures to stabilize the city's taxi and rideshare insurance industry, which is reeling from the insolvency of its largest provider American Transit Insurance ...
‘Geoeconomic Fragmentation’ Challenges Insurers: Geneva Association
A January 2025 report from the Geneva Association, titled Insurance in a Fragmented World Economy, found that geopolitical tensions have driven the global economy toward "geoeconomic fragmentation." ...
State Farm Pausing Nonrenewals in Compliance With CDI Notice
State Farm, in an update about its claims response to customers impacted by the wildfires in California, indicated that some policyholders slated for nonrenewals will get a reprieve from the giant ...
Why All the Fuss? Fairness Regulations Meet Insurers’ Growing Use of AI
Insurers worldwide are increasingly embracing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) powered decision support tools (Artificial Intelligence Systems or AIS)— both home-grown and ...
When EVs Take Off: AM Best Reviews Impact on China Motor Insurance
Premiums for policies covering new energy vehicles in China have soared to $13.8 billion—a six-fold jump from the level recorded five years earlier, AM Best said in a special report published ...