Data & Research
Fitch: Capital Levels, Continued Profits Support Stable P/C Outlook
In addition to opining that the momentum behind premium rate hikes is now exhausted in the property/casualty insurer sector, Fitch Ratings delivered predictions on key financial measures for 2014 and ...
What Analysts Are Saying: Have P/C Prices Peaked?
With the hardening price phase officially over for property/casualty insurers by some accounts, analysts are not yet predicting any severe price declines for the year ahead—and underwriting profits ...
Power Outages to Rise in NY, Philly, Other Cities: University Study
Cities like Miami are all too familiar with hurricane-related power outages. But a Johns Hopkins University analysis finds climate change will give other major metro areas a lot to worry about in ...
Marsh’s Top 10 U.S. Casualty Trends for 2015
Marsh's U.S. Casualty Practice sees a number of new insurance trends shaping the market in 2015, including a softening market, new capacity, and the greater use of data to enhance underwriting. Marsh ...
More Bad News for Reinsurers: Underperforming Stocks
Stocks for 20 publicly traded reinsurance companies performed far worse than the overall market for the first nine months of 2014, according to an equity trend analysis from A.M. Best. The analysis ...
Novarica: Large P/C Companies Widen Lead in Advanced Technology Race
Large property/casualty insurers are widening their lead over small- and medium-sized competitors in the race to add advanced technologies into daily work, Novarica concluded in a new report. ...
‘Bot’ Fraud Costing Digital Advertisers $6B: Research Report
Almost one-fourth of video ads and 11 percent of display ads are viewed by fake consumers created by cyber crime networks seeking to take a chunk of the billions of dollars spent on digital ...
Allianz: New Materials, Lawsuits Driving Up Aviation Claims Costs
Even as aviation becomes safer overall, everything from new materials in plain design to more lawsuits is driving up the cost of claims, Allianz concluded in a new study. Details can be found in the ...