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Public D&O Price Decreased 5.2% in Second Quarter, Says Aon
The average price for directors and officers liability insurance decreased 5.2 percent per $1 million in limits in the second quarter, according to Aon Commercial Risk Solutions. Aon said the ...
Elevated Demand, Increased Capacity Drive Reinsurer Profitability in 2024
Global property catastrophe limit purchased increased an estimated $35-$40 billion through H1 2024, with more than 50 percent of increased limit originating in North America across a wide range of ...
Are Captives the Answer for Uninsured HOAs? Utah Opens Door
When actuary Greg Fears attended a Western Region Captive Insurance Conference in April, he expected to learn and share information about emerging uses of captives for commercial risks, including ...
Hurricanes Grab Headlines But Inland Floods Top Disaster List
Floyd County keeps flooding and the federal government keeps coming to the rescue. In July 2022, at least 40 people died and 300 homes were damaged when the eastern Kentucky county flooded. It was ...
J.D. Power: Auto Insurance Shopping Hits New High, Could Drop With Rate Adequacy
The national auto insurance shopping and quoting rate reached a new high between April and June, but many insurers appear to have achieved or are approaching rate adequacy, "which should lead to less ...
After Crash Killed 6 Teens, NTSB Says Marijuana’s Impact on Drivers Underestimated
A horrific crash that killed six high school girls in Oklahoma two years ago has the head of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board urging parents to warn teenagers about the risk of driving ...
How to Outperform: Don’t Outsource Underwriting; Manage Cycles
Executives of two property/casualty insurance organizations—Kinsale Insurance and the U.S. P/C operations of Arch Capital—shared their recipes for success with an analyst who crowned their ...
Trigger Warning: Cyber Policy Wordings to Impact Coverage for Tech Outage
Industry stakeholders continue to try to get a grasp of the implications from last week's massive technology outage affecting motley industries around the world, but the theme of policy language is ...