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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 ...
Project 2025 Plan to End NFIP Welcomed by Some, Rejected by Others in Insurance
A plan by a politically conservative group to dismantle the National Flood Insurance Program, if Donald Trump is elected president, has been met with approval from a private flood insurer but sharp ...
Tesla Blasts Off to Top P/C Insurance Growers Chart
While personal lines insurers reported double-digit rates of direct premiums written growth in 2023, some relative newcomers to the segment—including Tesla Insurance—saw triple-digit leaps ...
Personal Auto Driving P/C Insurers to 2024 Underwriting Profit
S&P Global Market Intelligence is forecasting a combined ratio of 99.2 for the U.S. P/C insurance industry overall in 2024, signifying a return to underwriting profitability for the first time ...
What Role Does Insurance Play in a Politically Charged Climate?
Law enforcement officials are continuing to investigate a July 13 shooting at a Butler, Pa. rally for former President Donald Trump's 2024 election campaign. During the incident, the former president ...
California Insurance Commissioner Cuts Workers Comp Rate
A new and decreased rate for workers compensation insurance has been adopted in California, according to Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara. The action lowers the annual benchmark rate from $1.41 to ...
S&P GMI Performance Rankings: E&S Insurer Kinsale Takes Top Spot
A hard market, resilient domestic macroeconomic conditions and strong underwriting results have elevated specialty commercial carriers to the top of S&P Global Market ...
P/C Insurer CFO Viewpoints on PFAS
PFAS was a hot topic at the recent Casualty Actuarial Society Seminar on Reinsurance in June. But at a separate meeting held around the same time—the S&P Global ...