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When Will the Hard Reinsurance Market End?
Higher retentions on property-catastrophe reinsurance programs are here to stay going into next year's renewals, reinsurance brokers predicted recently. Related article: 'Hard But More Manageable' ...
Satisfaction Stable In Challenged Homeowners Market; Erie Ranks Highest: J.D. Power
As U.S. homeowners and renters are seeing rising premiums or policy cancellations due to a combination of natural catastrophes and regulatory pressure, the J.D. Power 2023 U.S. Home Insurance Study ...
AM Best Revises U.S. Homeowners Segment to Negative
AM Best said it has revised its outlook for the U.S. homeowners segment to negative from stable following three consecutive years of net underwriting losses as a result of above-average numbers of ...
For 5th Straight Year, Surplus Lines Sees Double-Digit Growth: AM Best
Total U.S. surplus lines direct premiums written (DPW) rose by 19.2 percent to reach a record $98.5 billion in 2022, marking a five-year streak of double-digit growth rate increase, according to a ...
New Florida Immigration Law Could Worsen Property Insurance Costs
If Florida insureds and insurers haven't been pummeled enough by rising costs in recent years, they could soon see another factor that could hit them in the pocketbook. Florida's tough new ...
J.D. Power: Auto Insurance Shopping Reaches All-Time High
The percentage of American households with cars and without auto insurance rose during the first half of 2023, and the share of customers who say they are shopping for auto insurance reached a record ...
50 Shades of Catastrophe Model Vendor Transparency
There are two players in the tug of war that is the implementation of a catastrophe (CAT) model—the user and the vendor. Users require a sophisticated CAT model that pulls together multiple ...
Humans Driving High Levels of Weather Losses: Guy Carpenter
While 2023 may well turn out to be the warmest year on record, human activities that generate carbon gas emissions aren't the only ones driving spikes in weather-related insurance losses, a ...