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Commercial Insurance Price Increases Stay Level, But Clients Still Worried: CIAB
"Stabilization" and "moderation" continued to be the operative words for premium increases in the commercial property/casualty market, but many clients remain concerned about future hikes, according ...
Berkshire Hathaway Reports First Underwriting Loss Since 2017, Drop in GEICO Staffing
Berkshire Hathaway recorded its first full-year underwriting loss since 2017—but a small one—as strong profits from reinsurance operations were almost enough to counterbalance the deteriorating ...
Liberty Mutual Tackling U.S. Personal Lines Challenges
The story of U.S. personal lines challenges impacting the results of multiline insurers was repeated for Liberty Mutual, which reported underwriting losses and waning policy growth in the segment in ...
Root Books Another Loss; Stays Positive on Embedded Insurance
Calling embedded insurance the "next secular trend in distribution," Root Inc. CEO Alex Timm in a letter to shareholders said the company has an advantage to scale access in the channel and become ...
Moody’s RMS Estimates $5B Insured Losses From Turkey Quake
The economic and insured losses from the earthquakes that hit southern Turkey on Monday, Feb. 6 continue to escalate as damage information and data keep pouring in. The catastrophe risk modeling firm ...
With Rate Increases Still Pending, Lemonade Is Slowing Growth in ’23
Executives of InsurTech Lemonade say they're slowing down growth in 2023, as the company waits for regulators to approve rate hikes needed to keep up with inflation. "So long as these mismatched ...
Why Not Go Direct on Homeowners, Allstate CEO Asks
When Allstate's chief executive officer looks at potential growth opportunities for personal lines insurers, he sees an untapped part of the homeowners insurance market—customers that will buy home ...
Hyundai, Kia to Offer Software Upgrade to 8.3 Million U.S. Vehicles to Prevent Thefts
Hyundai Motor and Kia Corp. will offer a software upgrade to 8.3 million U.S. vehicles in response to increasing thefts targeting vehicles without push-button ignitions and immobilizing anti-theft ...