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A New Approach: Florida Agents Association Invests in Startup Insurer
The Florida Association of Insurance Agents, the largest agent group in the state, has invested in a startup insurance carrier, a move designed to help keep agents in the game and to bring more ...
Re Buyers’ Market Prevails So Far; Reinsurers Seeking Growth
In separate reports this week, brokers Aon and Gallagher Re described a buyers' reinsurance market for April 1, 2024 property and specialty renewals as reinsurer profit margins benefited from last ...
U.S. Home Insurance Premiums May Hit a Record This Year, Report Warns
U.S. home insurance rates are expected to reach a record high this year, with the biggest increases occurring in states prone to severe weather events, according to a new analysis. The average ...
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 Best, in a statement. Jakobsen ...
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 ...