Cat-Exposed Property Highlights Q4 Rate Increases: MarketScout
According to MarketScout's Market Barometer, the fourth-quarter 2022 composite rate for U.S. commercial lines was up 5.1 percent.
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Insurance Pricing: True D&O Buyer’s Market; Stabilized Commercial Auto
Insurance brokerage USI is forecasting that half of 32 commercial insurance product lines analyzed will experience softer pricing in the first half of 2023—including a predicted "buyer's market" ...
D&O Insurer Dodges Coverage for $4.9M Embezzlement Scheme
A directors and officers insurer has no duty to defend a New Mexico financial organization from litigation filed after its former chief executive officer was convicted of ...
January Renewals See Hardest Property-Catastrophe Reinsurance Rates in Generation
A convergence of global events has led to the hardest property-catastrophe reinsurance market in a generation and a "complex," "grueling" and "late" January renewal ...
Cyber Insurance Themes to Look Out for in 2023
As the Roman God Janus (for which, of course, the month January takes its name) reflects both looking backwards and forwards in transition, the dawn of a New Year ...
Reinsurers Winning on Price, Not Coverage Restrictions: Guy Carpenter
Prices rose, but threatened coverage changes haven't materialized during a delayed 1/1 reinsurance renewal period, according to reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter. Referring to Jan. 1, 2023 as "one of ...
What to Expect: Commercial Insurance Rates Stabilizing, WTW Forecasts
With last year's 25 percent rate hikes for public directors and officers liability insurance dropping to 2.5 percent, and 150 percent hikes for cyber cover sinking to 25 percent, significant ...
Florida Relief Not Immediate: AM Best
Insurance reforms passed in Florida's most-recent legislative special session will lead to much-needed relief to the state's homeowners market, but the impact won't be immediate, AM Best analysts ...
White Mountains Ark Sub Sponsoring Prop-Cat Re Sidecar
White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. announced today that Ark Insurance Holdings Limited, its specialty property/casualty reinsurance and insurance subsidiary, has sponsored the formation of a ...