Personal Lines
California Insurers Required to Increase Home Coverage in High Risk Wildfire Areas
Insurance companies that stopped providing home coverage to hundreds of thousands of Californians in recent years as wildfires became more destructive will have to again provide policies in ...
Swiss Re’s Business Unit CEOs Share Views on Key Risk Themes of 2025
Social inflation will continue to be a top concern for insurers and reinsurers in 2025 with U.S. liability claims increasing by 57 percent during the past decade and nuclear verdicts rising in ...
2025 Underwriting Profit and ‘Shop-a-Palooza’ Predicted for Auto Insurance
2024 was another tough year for personal lines insurers and their customers. In this space in late 2023, I wrote that seven of the 10 most read articles of 2023 were about the impacts of inflation ...
Reporter’s Notebook: ‘Nobody Else Does Telematics,’ Lemonade Exec Says
Executives speaking at Lemonade's Investor Day event late last month made several statements suggesting that their approaches to personal lines insurance set the technology company apart from the ...
Safeco to Stop Writing New Condo and Renter Policies in California
Safeco, a Liberty subsidiary, is preparing to stop writing new condo and rental policies in California at the beginning of next year. Liberty stopped writing new condo or rental customers under its ...
Most Distracting Holiday Songs for Drivers Ranked
A personal injury lawyer warns that slippery roads and congested highways aren't the only problems that drivers have to contend with during the year-end holiday season. Listening to Andy Williams ...
Millions of Homeowners May Be Underinsured Due to Secondary Structures: ZestyAI
Millions of U.S. homes are underinsured, not because of any added value in the homes but because additional structures on the homeowner's property have gone unreported and are without protection. ...
Moody’s: Rising Flood Risks Posing Greater Challenges for Eastern and Southern U.S.
Flood risk is rising across the Eastern and Southern states from extreme rainfall, hurricanes and sea-level rise, according to a new report by Moody's Ratings. The increasing flooding hazard poses ...