Performance
Travelers CEO Schnitzer: Loss Costs ‘Challenging as Ever to Predict’
In the words of its CEO, there's a "fair amount to pay attention to" from the first-quarter earnings call of Travelers, as the P/C insurer grew net written premiums 11 percent to a record $8.4 ...
Innovation Boosts Carrier Top Lines: AM Best
Insurers with well-developed innovation initiatives have much higher levels of top-line growth than those who lag behind on the innovation curve, AM Best reported last month. In a special report ...
Investment Gains Float Weight of $5.6B Underwriting Loss for U.S. P/C Insurers in Nine Months 2021
An increase in capital gains on investments is largely credited with lifting the after-tax net income of private U.S. property/casualty insurers to $42.1 billion over nine months in 2021 compared to ...
Zurich Insurance Reports 35% Increase in 2021 Operating Profit to $5.7B
Zurich Insurance expects continued revenue and profit growth in the next two years, its chief financial officer said on Thursday, after the Swiss insurer reported its biggest annual profit since the ...
CNA Net Income Up 74% in 2021 Despite Q4 Drop
CNA Financial Corp. said fourth-quarter 2021 net income decreased more than 30 percent to $266 million compared to the same period the prior year. There was a drop in net investment income during the ...
Markel Numbers ‘Thick’ on Underwriting, Investments, Ventures
Markel Corporation reported a "record-smashing" $628 million in underwriting profit for 2021, a figure that translated into a combined ratio of just over 90 for the year. Co-Chief Executive Officer ...
AM Best Answers Questions as DUAE; MGA Assessments Go Live
It is not a credit rating. It will not impact an insurer's financial strength rating. Those were two of the answers that AM Best analysts delivered yesterday in various presentations about the rating ...
The Bottom Line: The Early Read on 2021 P/C Earnings
For publicly traded commercial insurers and reinsurers that reported 2021 earnings in January 2022, net income soared nearly 40 percent, with double-digit premium growth and higher levels of ...