Personal Lines
Growth Going to be Hard: Abel Talks GEICO, Berkshire Tech Transformation
"It's not going to be easy to just restart the growth engine." Berkshire Hathaway Chief Executive Officer Greg Abel was referring to a challenge ahead of auto insurer GEICO during the annual meeting ...
Lemonade Logs Q1 Net Loss With Topline Growth
InsurTech Lemonade reported a first-quarter 2026 net loss of about $35.8 million compared with a loss of about $62.4 million during the same time in 2025. However, Lemonade said its topline growth ...
Independent Agents Can Get Appointed to Sell Root Auto Insurance in One Day
Although InsurTech Root has talked more about embedded partners than agents in the years since announcing it would add an independent agency distribution channel, the car insurer has been working to ...
Balancing Authenticity and Compliance in Creator-Led Insurance Marketing
Most property and casualty insurers do not question whether creator-led marketing works. The issue is control. The format introduces something traditional advertising lacks: lived experience. A ...
Officially Retired: Liberty Mutual’s Safeco Brand Sunsets
Liberty Mutual confirmed that the previously announced sunset of the Safeco Insurance brand is officially done. The company's auto, property and specialty lines business in the independent agent ...
Travelers to Expand Homeowners Insurance Offering in California
The Travelers Companies said it intends to expand its homeowners insurance offerings across California. Travelers notified the California Department of Insurance it intends to expand homeowners ...
Florida Needs More – Much More – Wind Mitigation, Say Experts at OIR Summit
Florida has the largest wind-mitigation grant program in the country, providing more than $300 million to homeowners over the last few years and resulting in insurance premium discounts for thousands ...
State Farm Paid a ‘Hail’ of a Lot of Claims in 2025
Providing its annual report of hail-related claims, State Farm said that it paid out $5.6 billion nationally for such claims in 2025, and $1.4 billion in Texas alone. The giant insurer's report on ...