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Wait ‘Til Next Year: Auto Profit Unlikely to Return in ’23, S&P Says
In spite of continued actions to raise prices of coverage, auto loss costs continue to climb and profits will continue to elude personal auto insurers—probably until 2024, analysts at Standard ...
Roof Damage Research: Small Hail Matters
New analysis by the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) and ZestyAI, a climate and property risk analytics provider, finds property/casualty insurance carriers need to broaden ...
Claim Professionals’ Perspective: D&O Market Correction Coming
The current directors and officers market is out of balance with insurers facing a soft underwriting landscape just as the volume and severity of claims are rising. The head-scratching imbalance was ...
The Mobility Revolution Is Coming for Insurers
What would you do if you had advance knowledge of massive changes coming to your industry? And what if you knew generally what form the changes would take and the likely identity of disruptive new ...
W.R. Berkley CEO Says Insurer Isn’t Going to Chase D&O Market ‘Down the Drain’
W.R. Berkley Corp. President and CEO Robert Berkley said the insurer is not going to follow the directors and officers market "down the drain." During a call with analysts to discuss first-quarter ...
Embroker: Business Insurance Shoppers Concerned With Startup Leadership Post-SVB Collapse
Following the closure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), VC-backed startups were increasingly looking for stronger protection in case their assets were compromised — specifically liability policies ...
Different Works: RLI Posts Sub-80 First-Quarter Combined Ratio—Again
As property/casualty insurers preannounce catastrophe loss estimates that will dent first-quarter 2023 bottom lines almost daily, RLI Corp. reported a 68 property combined ratio with a 50 percent ...
Allstate Estimates $1.7B of Q1 Cat Losses
Allstate Corp. said pre-tax catastrophe losses for the first quarter are expected to be about $1.7 billion, with about $1.3 billion occurring during the month of March. Losses in March were ...