Personal Lines
Travelers Combined Ratio Ticks Higher; Q4 Profit Exceeds Estimates
Insurer Travelers Cos Inc reported a better-than-expected fourth-quarter profit on Tuesday, as growth in premiums and investment income offset catastrophe losses related to the California wildfires. ...
Private Flood Insurers Not Yet Ready to Fill Massive U.S. Protection Gap
The flood insurance protection gap in the United States is massive, but the take-up rate of private flood insurance continues to be low. The relative inability of private insurers to penetrate the ...
Hurricane Florence Demonstrates Perils of Being Underinsured/ Uninsured, Says RMS
Hurricane Florence caused extensive freshwater flood damage in the Carolinas and parts of Virginia in September—and about 70 percent of those flood losses will be uninsured, according to RMS. "The ...
Chubb Estimates $585M in Q4 Pretax Cat Losses
Chubb disclosed an estimated $585 million in net catastrophe pretax losses for the 2018 fourth quarter, stemming mostly from storms and wildfires. After tax, those catastrophe losses totaled $505 ...
QBE Joins $30M Financing Round for Machine Learning Startup HyperScience
HyperScience, a startup using machine learning to automate office work-related data entry and more, attracted $30 million in Series B financing from investors including Australian insurer QBE. New ...
U.S. P/C Insurers Produced $4.7B Net Underwriting Gain Through Q3 2018
The U.S. property/casualty insurance private market produced a $4.7 billion net underwriting profit over the first nine months of 2018, according to a new report from ISO/Verisk and the American ...
Cash-Starved California Utility Won’t Commit to Paying 2015 Fire Victim Settlements
PG&E Corp. is so cash-starved that it won't commit to paying settlements reached with people who lost their homes in a 2015 wildfire caused by a tree falling on a power line. The disclosure by a ...
Big 3 Drive Personal Auto Insurance Recovery; Signs of Rate Hike Fatigue Ahead
Steady improvement for U.S. personal auto insurance companies has culminated in the sector's best underwriting performance in 10 years, according to a report from Fitch Ratings. The market ...