Performance
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 ...
RenRe: Absorbing Over $1B in Weather Cats
Early last year, the leader of RenaissanceRe predicted that his company would put $1 billion more net written premium on the books in 2021 than it did in 2020. RenRe's President and CEO Kevin ...
AXIS Capital 2021: A Year of Repositioning
The word of the hour was "repositioning" during the earnings conference call for AXIS Capital last week, with the company reporting its bottom line in the black in 2021, following a net loss in 2020. ...
RLI: 26 Straight Years of Underwriting Profit
RLI's 2021 fourth-quarter represented Chairman Jon Michael's last quarter at the helm of the specialty insurer as chief executive officer. Craig Kliethermes, who took the reins as president and CEO ...
The Bottom Line: Earnings Reports for RLI, RenRe and AXIS Capital
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 ...
Kin Seals Acquisition Deal Involving 43 State Insurance Licenses; Reverse Merger Pending
Kin Insurance, an InsurTech focused on home coverage and related technology, has completed the acquisition of an inactive insurance carrier holding licenses in 43 states. "Kin's advantages are most ...