APCIA Says Property Insurance Market ‘Hardest in a Generation’
A combination of historic high inflation and a growing frequency of natural catastrophes is creating the hardest market in a generation for property insurance, the ...
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Where Property Insurance Buyers Are Headed: A Paradigm Shift
Rising commercial property insurance costs have gotten the attention of executives across a broad cross-section of corporate America. Aon, a leading broker of commercial insurance, reports that ...
Commercial Auto Among Lines With Flattening Rates: USI 2022 Forecast
Although it wasn't the headline of a commercial insurance broker's market pricing report last week, the report's observation that "commercial auto liability coverage rates are starting to flatten" is ...
Executive Viewpoint: A New Property Underwriting Paradigm
Buildings burn. They shake. They blow up, and they blow down. The events and situations causing damage to buildings are unchanging. For more than 300 years, insurance companies have indemnified ...
Florida Property Insurers Raise Rates by Double Digits, Driven by Multiple Factors
Florida property insurers are jacking up rates by double-digit percentages, blaming the hikes on lingering damage from past hurricanes, a wave of litigation, and a law that encourages lawyers to sue ...
Property, WC, Liability Price Hikes Drive Up Total Cost of Risk for Businesses
Businesses and organizations paid nearly two percent more in 2018 than they did in 2017 to cover the total cost of risk. Reversing the trend of falling average TCOR per $1,000 of revenue seen from ...
2018 Catastrophes Made ‘Muted Impact’ on Jan. 1 Renewals: Guy Carpenter
The overall impact of catastrophe losses on property rates was muted at the Jan. 1, 2019 reinsurance renewals, but the fourth-highest annual catastrophe loss year on record did create questions over ...
Catastrophe Losses Force Aspen to Cease Underwriting Property Insurance From Bermuda Platform
Aspen Insurance Holdings confirmed on Friday, Feb. 16, that it has ceased underwriting property insurance on its Bermuda platform, effective immediately, as a result of the company's 2017 catastrophe ...
New Explosion of Calif. Wildfires Threatens Homes and More
Once again, thousands are fleeing wildfires in California. And, once again, the worry on Wall Street is that a major electric utility might end up on the hook for the damages. Shares of Edison ...