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Outlook for U.S. Commercial Insurance Segment ‘Stable’ as Profits Stay Strong: AM Best
AM Best is maintaining its stable market segment outlook on the U.S. commercial lines insurance sector for 2025, due partly to the segment's persistently strong underwriting performance and improved ...
Hiring for Attitude: What Sets Lemonade Apart
An executive speaking at Lemonade's Investor Day late last month took investors behind the scenes to watch some of its AI bots in action. The point of the demonstration, however, was to do more than ...
New Jersey Using Buyouts and Barriers to Battle Flooding
New Jersey is using a mix of buyouts and barriers to tackle flooding in two vulnerable locations. Officials last week announced funding to buy and demolish homes in flood-prone sections of Cranford, ...
Insurer, Contractors Allege Staged Injury Claims Scheme Under New York Scaffold Law
A construction industry captive insurer along with three construction contractors have filed a lawsuit alleging a massive New York fraud scheme involving staged workplace accidents and bogus workers ...
AM Best Improves Outlook on U.S. Personal Auto Segment to ‘Stable’
Insurance rating agency AM Best said it has shifted its outlook of the U.S. personal auto insurance segment to stable from negative thanks to improving loss ratios of the top 20 carriers this year. ...
Florida Citizens’ Brass Tired of ‘Clickbait’ News on Its Hurricane Claims Denials
Officials with Florida's Citizens Property Insurance Corp. took issue Thursday with a number of national and Florida news reports that have suggested the insurer has the "worst rate" on paying claims ...
Global Non-Life Insurance Rates ‘Plateauing’ but Nat Cat Losses Delay Market Softening
Global non-life premiums are expected to hit a decade-high growth level of 4.3 percent in 2024, following the repricing of risk over the past several years in response to elevated claims, according ...
Quantifying Social Inflation: How Swiss Re Developed an Index
Swiss Re Institute (SRI) made a significant contribution to the literature on social inflation and its impacts on insurers, reinsurers and their customers with the calculation of a new measure—a ...