Personal Lines
Root Promises 2022 Improvements After Losing $415M This Year Through Sept. 30
Root has lost more than $415 million from January through September 2021, almost double the same period a year ago. The Ohio based digital auto insurer also took year-to-date hits on net premiums ...
AXIS Joins Carriers’ Increasing Embrace of Pet Insurance
AXIS Insurance has become the latest carrier to enter the pet insurance market. The Bermuda-based specialty insurer, a business segment of AXIS Capital Holdings, Ltd., joins the pet insurance market ...
It has been said that the best advertisement for insurance is not having it (or not having enough of it)...
The Hartford and Neptune Flood Launch New Climate Change Initiatives
The Hartford will invest $2.5 billion over the next five years in technologies, companies and funds advancing the transition to renewable energy and addressing climate change. Neptune Flood said it ...
U.S. Severe Weather Insured Losses Surpassed $20B After Rough October: Aon
Annual U.S. severe weather insured losses for 2021 are jumping above $20 billion after a rough October, even before the year is complete, according to a new Aon report. "October is typically ...
Climate Change Puts Financial Heat on Insurers and Policyholders Alike
Tony and Jhan Dunn never thought they would leave California, where they grew up, built a life together and planned to retire. But after a wildfire swept through their Northern California town of ...
Investor Ire Over Lemonade’s Metromile Deal Overshadowed Generally Encouraging Q3 Results
Lemonade's decision to acquire struggling pay-per-mile auto insurer Metromile, along with a loss ratio that spiked higher, initially drowned out news of otherwise encouraging results from the ...
AIG CEO Zaffino Urges Insurers to Plan for More Climate Change-Related Catastrophe Losses
AIG President and CEO Peter Zaffino urged the insurance industry to acknowledge that more frequent and severe catastrophe losses are likely here to stay, and plan accordingly. "We've never seen ...
Lemonade’s Metromile M&A Deal Could Presage More InsurTech Acquisitions to Come: S&P
Lemonade's plan to snatch up Metromile isn't necessarily a one-off InsurTech M&A deal. Many more in the sector are likely in the future, particularly with newly-public startups burdened by anemic ...