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Innovation Boosts Carrier Top Lines: AM Best
Insurers with well-developed innovation initiatives have much higher levels of top-line growth than those who lag behind on the innovation curve, AM Best reported last month. In a special report ...
Insurance Premiums Will Grow 3 Percent Despite Economic Slowdown: Swiss Re
Global insurance premiums will grow 3 percent on average over the next two years even with an emerging global economic slowdown, Swiss Re said in its latest sigma report. Rising loss costs will fuel ...
Catastrophes Dipped in 2017 But Caused More Economic Damage: Swiss Re Sigma
Though there were fewer catastrophes globally in 2017 than the previous year, they caused significantly more damage, and the year's historic hurricane season is largely to blame, according to the ...
U.S. Commercial Lines Could Produce Small Underwriting Profit in 2018: Fitch Ratings
After a tumultuous 2017, the U.S. commercial lines market should eke out a small underwriting profit in 2018 assuming catastrophe losses return to more historical norms, Fitch Ratings said in a new ...
China Drives 2016 Insurance Premium Growth: Allianz
Global insurance premium reached more than $3.8 trillion in 2016 — a new record high — and China appears to be a factor behind much of the growth, according to new projections from Allianz ...
Global Commercial Non-Life Premiums to Reach Almost $900B by 2018
A London-based market research firm projects that global non-life gross written commercial insurance premiums will reach a value of around $895.1 billion by 2018, with U.S. commercial liability ...
Swiss Re: Emerging Markets Still Driving Non-Life Premium Growth
Non-life insurance premium growth should improve in 2016 and 2017, with emerging markets driving the charge, Swiss Re said in its annual insurance outlook. Emerging markets will generate ...
Where Can P/C Insurers Grow?
Property/casualty insurers on a mission to achieve strong growth over the next few years need to look beyond developed economies, a reinsurance broker advises in a new report. In the 10th edition of ...