Fitch Ratings News
Fitch: Hardening Commercial Lines Market to Continue Through 2023
This year will mark the fourth year of a hardening market for commercial lines underwriting cycle, according to the latest U.S Commercial Lines Market Update released by Fitch Ratings.. The Council ...
Eight Straight Years of Workers Comp Profits: What Could Go Wrong
Workers compensation insurance stands out as the most profitable major U.S. commercial insurance product line over the last five years, bolstered by relative claims ...
The Pros and Cons of Going Private
In the days before hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb decided to drop its buyout of SiriusPoint, Carrier Management asked analysts at AM Best and Fitch Ratings about the pros ...
Homeowners Insurer Retreat Signals Climate, Regulatory and Economic Challenges: Fitch Ratings
The recent retreat of large homeowners insurance carriers, like Allstate and State Farm, from the California property insurance market signals ongoing regulatory constraints, rising cost inflation ...
Reinsurance Inflection Point? Reports Flag Appetite Growth, Capital Recovery
A record level of property-catastrophe reinsurance prices at June 1 followed a record level of hurricane losses last year, but a change in conditions may be on the horizon on both fronts, forecasters ...
U.S. P/C Underwriting Profit in 2023? Not Yet, Fitch Predicts
Analysts at Fitch Ratings predict a better underwriting result for U.S. property/casualty insurers in 2023 than 2022, but the combined ratio is still going to hover above breakeven, according to ...
D&O Story for 2022: Prices Down; Loss Ratios Up; Top Carriers Ranked
Although analysts at Fitch Ratings estimate that combined ratios for the directors and officers liability line remained below breakeven in 2022, with competition fueling price declines and the ...
Fitch Ups AIG P/C Ratings to A+; Multiyear Transformation Prompts Action
A 2022 combined ratio of 92 for the property/casualty operations of American International Group is evidence of the success of the carrier's multiyear turnaround that factored into an upgrade from ...