Personal Auto Insurance Could Be Obsolete in 20 Years: Morningstar
Self-driving cars could make personal auto insurance largely obsolete within 20 years, according to a worst-case scenario modeled by Morningstar. A more likely, moderate ...
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State Farm Posts Worst HO Loss Ratio Since 2011; Peers Recover: S&P GMI
State Farm was the only one of 10 major players in the homeowners insurance market reporting a worse second-quarter loss ratio for the line than it did in 2023, according to a new analysis. The ...
Homeowners Not Satisfied, Just Stuck With Insurers: J.D. Power
Although Chubb, AIG, Amica and Erie outranked peers in the U.S. homeowners insurance market on measures of customer satisfaction, the compiler of satisfaction scores—J.D. Power—believes customers ...
U.S. Property Insurance Rates Fall for First Time Since 2017
U.S. property insurance rates are decreasing for the first time in almost seven years, after insurers returned to profitability amid lower losses tied to catastrophes. The average U.S. property ...
Personal Lines Turnaround Fuels U.S. P/C Industry Underwriting Gain
A turnaround in the personal lines insurance segment results was a key driver of an overall $3.8 billion profit from underwriting for the U.S. property/casualty insurance industry, according to a new ...
Prospect of Hurricane Seasonal Forecast-Miss Rising: Moody’s
Robert Muir-Wood, chief research officer of Moody's, has attended the Rendez-Vous de Septembre many times over the course of a more than 25-year career in catastrophe modeling. But he's hard-pressed ...
Main Street America Insurance Exits Personal Lines
Main Street America Insurance said Thursday it will stop offering personal lines insurance in favor of a commercial lines strategy. The Jacksonville, Fla.-based insurer founded about 100 years ago in ...
Allstate Approved to Raise Home Insurance Rates by 34% in Wildfire-Prone California
Allstate Corp. is set to increase home insurance rates for California customers by an average of 34.1 percent, marking the biggest jump in premiums for a major insurer in three years as the state ...
U.S. Drivers Spent a Work-Week Sitting in Traffic Last Year: Research
New York City, where drivers lost 101 hours to traffic congestion last year, topped INRIX's 2023 Global Traffic Scorecard, the transportation data and analytics reported recently. The firm's report ...