Rating Agencies
U.S. Commercial Lines Has Plenty of Room for Improvement: Fitch
With an industry overall combined ratio for 2019 hovering just below 100, and individual lines like long-tail liability moving 10 points over breakeven, the U.S. commercial lines market has "plenty ...
Pandemic Losses Will Exceed S&P Estimates: Chief Risk Officers Say
Analysts for Standard & Poor's Global Ratings shared a view that U.S. underwriting losses from COVID-19 would fall in the $15-$30 billion range. Risk officers speaking at a rating agency ...
Focus On Facts, Not Media Misinformation: Berkley
Arguing that the media has been fed misinformation by the plaintiffs bar, the chief executive officer of a property/casualty insurer said facts will win out on debates over business interruption ...
Diverging Views: Is COVID a One-Off Cat or Not?
While reinsurers are "open for business" and insurers and reinsurers are reporting the impacts of COVID-19 as a one-off catastrophe impacting earnings rather than capital, equity markets are viewing ...
Reinsurers Won’t Earn Cost of Capital; More Rate Hikes: Fitch
The global reinsurance sector will fail to earn its cost of capital in 2020 amid the coronavirus crisis, which will help maintain reinsurance price increases during the year ahead, said Fitch ...
Underwriting Profits Up 21 Percent for Q1 2020: AM Best Analysis
Even though unrealized capital losses pushed surplus down 9 percent from year-end 2019 for the U.S. property/casualty insurance industry, aggregate underwriting profits for first-quarter 2020 were ...
AXIS Hit With S&P Outlook Downgrade Over Underperformance Concerns
AXIS Capital Holdings' lower-than-expected 2020 first-quarter earnings has now led to a negative ratings outlook from Standard & Poor's. The S&P action, which downgraded from a stable ...
If Passed, Bills to Nullify BI Exclusions Could Prove Disastrous: AM Best
Legislation to nullify business interruption (BI) exclusions in some states could have disastrous consequences for the P/C insurance industry if passed, potentially wiping out up to 50 percent of ...