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AM Best Downgrades State Farm General Ratings
Roughly a week after State Farm announced that it would nonrenew tens of thousands of homeowners and commercial apartment policies in California, AM Best has downgraded the company that offered those ...
Bridge Collapse Will Add to Reinsurance Challenges: AM Best
"Reinsurers will bear the bulk of the insured cost of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore," said Mathilde Jakobsen, senior director, analytics, AM ...
Worst Is Over: Most of Casualty Reserve Hole May Be Filled, Analyst Says
Predictions that the property/casualty insurance industry is in the midst of repeating the type of loss reserving cycle that accompanied the hard market of the beginning year of this century may be ...
What Industry Executives Are Saying About Loss Reserves, Social Inflation
At carriers and reinsurers that announced reserve loss charges taken during fourth-quarter 2023, and even at some that did not, executives discussed the "problematic accident years" and lines of ...
‘AI Washing’ Troubles: SEC Fines Investment Firms, Issues Warnings
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week said it settled charges against two investment advisers related to "AI washing," or essentially making false claims about their use of artificial ...
CEO of Florida’s Citizens Pushes Back on Lawmaker’s Solvency Questions
The CEO of Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has denied that corporation representatives have been unresponsive to Congressional requests for financial information, in the wake of unsettling comments ...
State Farm Update: More ‘Difficult but Necessary’ Decisions in California
State Farm wasn't quite done making tough decisions about writing business in California when it announced that it wouldn't accept applications for new homeowners policies in the state in May of last ...
Cumulative Trauma Makes Up Half of Litigated Claims in the LA Area
Claims that involve physical or mental injuries that arise over time from repetitive stress, motion or exposures, also known as cumulative trauma (CT) claims, make up nearly half of litigated claims ...