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U.S. Commercial Auto Stymied by Challenges at the Cusp of Profitability: AM Best
U.S. commercial auto insurers may be generating the best underwriting results for the sector in years, but the sector remains unprofitable as a whole as it confronts a number of emerging trends, ...
Credit Scoring: Insurers Assert New Data Validates Its Use to Predict Risky Driver Behaviors
The insurance industry says it now has hard data proving that if you have a bad credit score, you're more likely to slam on the brakes or step hard on the gas. The same is true, they say, if you're ...
U.S. Insurers Hear Demands to Use Social and Environmental Issues in Decision-Making
U.S. insurers are increasingly listening to demands from stakeholders that they use social and environmental factors in their decision-making, according to a new AM Best survey. The ratings entity ...
Reinsurers Increasingly Use Third-Party Capital to Transfer Risks
Reinsurers are increasingly relying on third-party capital to support their retrocession needs, in which they transfer risks they have assumed to other counterparties. According to a report from ...
Global Average Annual Disaster Losses Could Surpass $200B in 10 Years: AIR Worldwide
The global insurance industry can currently expect a long-run annual average loss of $106 billion and a greater than a 40 percent chance of experiencing an annual loss of more than $200 billion in ...
Global Commercial Insurance Rates Rose 15 Percent in Q3: Marsh
Global commercial insurance prices increased 15% in the third quarter of 2021, which was the same rate of increase recorded in the previous quarter, according to the Global Insurance Market Index ...
Business Owners Remain Overconfident About Their Ransomware Risks and Preventative Steps: Embroker
Business owners – even many technology startups - remain vastly overconfident about both their risk for ransomware attacks and insurance they have in place to prevent them, according to a new ...
Higher Catastrophe Losses Will Dampen Q3 Earnings: KBW Analysis
Higher catastrophe losses should help push Q3 2021 earnings per share below consensus for carriers, but rate increases should help boost reinsurer results, according to KBW analyst Meyer Shields. ...