Insurance Regulation
Regulatory Compliance Achievable for ‘Good AI’: Insurance Lawyer
Artificial intelligence is evolving at a rapid speed, and insurers are finding themselves in the driver's seat of this transformation, according to experts who spoke during Carrier Management's 2025 ...
What to Watch: The Trends for P/C Insurance in 2025 So Far
As we reach the midpoint of 2025, now is a perfect time to reflect on some of the key trends that have defined the first half of the year while also looking ahead at what ...
California vs. Florida: A Tale of Two Insurance Markets
Until recently, homeowners insurers weren't allowed to use catastrophe models to justify needed rate increases, or to include the cost of reinsurance in their rate indications in the state of ...
CDI Announces Investigation of State Farm Wildfire Claims Handling
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Thursday announced a formal investigation into State Farm's handling of thousands of insurance claims from wildfire survivors affected by the ...
Too Late? S&P Downgrades State Farm General (Updated)
Standard & Poor's Global Ratings announced a two-notch downgrade of State Farm General on May 13—on the same day that California's regulator approved an interim emergency homeowners rate ...
State Farm’s Emergency Homeowners Rate Hike Gets OK in California
State Farm General can move ahead with a proposal to raise California homeowners rates on an emergency interim basis, following years of financial stresses that depleted its surplus and billions of ...
Is State Farm General Too Big to Fail? Calif. Rate Hearing Concludes
"Too big to fail"—a phrase associated with interconnected publicly traded financial services companies in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis—was revived in a new context last week. During a ...
Is State Farm General a Sinking Ship? California Emergency Rate Request Dropped to 17%
Lawyers for State Farm General, the California Department of Insurance and Consumer Watchdog presented opening arguments in a hearing to determine the fate of State Farm's request for an emergency ...