Personal Lines
Rate Hikes Not Bringing Profit to U.S. Auto Insurers: Fitch
Jumps in rates and written premiums did little to move the needle on underwriting profits for U.S. personal auto insurers, Fitch Ratings reported based on a recent review of midyear results of nine ...
More Signs of Life in Florida: New Insurers, More Citizens Takeouts
Florida's property insurance market is showing more signs of life, with another company requesting a large takeout order from Citizens Property Insurance and two new companies entering the ...
Kemper Exits Preferred Home and Auto Business
As it reported a net loss in the second quarter of about $97 million, Kemper Corp. said Monday that it is exiting the preferred home and auto insurance market. Kemper said it will "actively reduce ...
Massive Citizens Takeout Plan Seen as Sign That Things Are Looking Up in Florida Market
Stakeholders near and far are hailing a record number of takeouts from Citizens' Property Insurance Corp. as a sign that the troubled Florida insurance market is improving, even if it will likely ...
GAO Urges Changes to NFIP as Study Highlights Potential $27B Shortfall
FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) substantially improved ratemaking by implementing Risk Rating 2.0 in 2021, but the program faces a potentially significant premium shortfall, a study by ...
Study: Motor Vehicle Thefts Soar in First Half of 2023
During the first half of 2023, vehicle thefts soared while most other crimes declined, according to a new study of crime trends in 37 cities released this week by the Council on Criminal Justice. ...
Farmers Forced to Rescind Thousands of Nonrenewal Notices in Georgia
About the same time that it announced a major pull-back from the Florida and California markets, Famers Insurance also sent thousands of nonrenewal notices to Georgia homeowners. In Georgia, though, ...
Americans Are Moving Toward Climate Danger in Search of Cheaper Homes
A midsummer quiz: Let's say you read about an area experiencing blistering heat for weeks on end — heat so hot that in the day, you can't go outside, and at nighttime, it's still above 90F. Would ...