Industry News
The Hartford Sees Q4 Net Income Rise 11%, Strengthens GL Reserves
Net income at The Hartford increased 11 percent to $848 million in fourth-quarter 2024, driven by premium growth in commercial and personal lines. Net income attributable to shareholders went up 24 ...
LA Fire-Related Capital Hit Prompts State Farm Emergency Rate Request
State Farm General Insurance revealed that it has asked the California Department of Insurance to approve an "interim emergency" homeowners insurance rate hike, citing declining capital and a ...
State of Core Solutions Transition: Which Tech Priorities Are Being Carried Out?
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You have two watches. Your first watch is analog. It has dials, gears, crystals and movements. It is a machine...
Mangrove, Another New Property Insurer, Enters Florida Market
Itasca Re Chairman Stephen Weinstein has launched a new Florida-domiciled insurance carrier, known as Mangrove Property Insurance, with plans to assume thousands of policies from Citizens Property ...
Insurance Payouts at $4B and Counting for LA Wildfires
Preliminary data show insurance companies have paid out more than $4 billion for losses from the biggest two of the Los Angeles-area wildfires that swept through the region and destroyed tens of ...
‘So Much More’: Nationwide Spends $1.25B For Allstate Employer Stop Loss Biz
Nationwide announced on Thursday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase The Allstate Corporation's employer stop loss segment for $1.25 billion. Stop loss insurance protects ...
‘Underwriting Choices’ Added to Everest’s Social Inflation Woes: CEO
Social inflation wasn't the only factor that pushed the loss severity on the U.S. casualty book of Everest Group Ltd. up high enough to prompt a $1.7 billion loss reserve charge, the CEO said earlier ...
Property-Cat Reinsurance Rates Will Stop Dropping Post-Wildfires: Execs
RenaissanceRe expects to incur about $750 million in losses from the January 2025 California wildfires—and anticipates that industrywide impacts should halt the drop in property-catastrophe ...
Claims Exec Who Defrauded Allied World Insurance Ordered to Prison, Pay $1.2M
James Keating of Paoli, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to 20 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for defrauding his former employer of more than $1.4 million. ...