Personal Lines
Allstate Reports a Double-Digit Rise in Profits and Falling Claims Costs
Allstate Corp., the largest U.S. publicly traded seller of auto and home insurance, said first-quarter profit rose 13 percent as margins improved at the property- liability business and catastrophe ...
U.S. P/C Insurance Industry Reached Record Surplus in 2014: A.M. Best
The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry posted its second consecutive year of profitable underwriting results in 2014, according to A.M. Best. Surplus for this sector increased by $21.9 billion ...
Bitcoins are Emerging as the Next Cyber Insurance Risk
Consumers around the world are racking up more than 100,000 financial transactions every day without using cash, credit cards or a barter system, How are all those buyers doing it? With Bitcoins, of ...
Buffett’s GEICO Hit With Worsening Margins; Customer Prices to Rise
GEICO, the auto insurer owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., will charge drivers more after margins worsened. The pretax underwriting gain at GEICO fell to $160 million in the first ...
Progressive’s BIG Idea on 2015 InformationWeek Top 100 Tech Innovator List
Auto insurer Progressive announced last week that the company has been included on a list of 100 top business technology innovators in the United States, earning the honor for its Business Innovation ...
Buffett Scoffs at Notion of Berkshire Hathaway Being ‘Too Big to Fail’
Warren Buffett on Saturday rejected the idea that Berkshire Hathaway Inc, a sprawling conglomerate he has built over 50 years, has grown so big that it is now too big to fail and requires tighter ...
With Merger Complete, XL Catlin Debuts
XL Group Plc.'s approximately $4 billion deal to buy Catlin Group Ltd. closed on May 1. Beginning Monday, May 4, the global insurer and reinsurer debuts a new name: XL Catlin. "After nearly two years ...
AIG Commercial P/C Profit Soars; $3.5B Stock Repurchase Planned
American International Group Inc. said it will repurchase another $3.5 billion in stock after first- quarter profit climbed 53 percent on gains at the unit selling property and casualty insurance to ...