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Average U.S. Commercial Insurance Price Hikes Continue to Trickle Downward: Willis Towers Watson
While aggregate U.S. commercial insurance price hikes continue to moderate, most lines are still producing robust price increases, according to Willis Towers Watson. Excess/umbrella produces ...
Reinsurance Rate Hikes Will Continue (and Moderate) in 2022: Fitch Ratings
Global reinsurers' underwriting performance will continue to improve in 2022 as premium rate increases take hold, with further rate hikes expected as a result of higher catastrophe losses, continued ...
Insurance Is a Top Cost Worry For Canadian Small Businesses: Survey
Insurance has become the top operating cost concern for small businesses in Canada with seven in ten reporting that their premiums have gone up since the beginning of the year, according to the ...
AIG CEO Zaffino Acknowledges Reduction of Cyber Insurance Limits as Coverage Costs Climb
American International Group Inc is tightening terms of its cyber insurance, noting that its own premium prices are up nearly 40% globally, with the largest increase in North America, the U.S. ...
Chubb Celebrates ‘Robust’ Q2 Financial Results; Commercial Lines Premium Gains Soar
Chubb released extremely positive Q2 results on July 27, driven in particular by strong gains in its commercial property/casualty business and related rate hikes in the sector. The company used words ...
Global Commercial Insurance Price Hikes Moderated Further in Q2: Marsh
Global commercial insurance prices rose 15 percent in the 2021 second quarter, continuing a stunning track record of increases but far from their peak at the end of 2020, according to a new Marsh ...
Global P/C Industry Produces Strongest Rate Hikes in 20 Years, as Inflationary Risks Surface
Robust global economic recovery, higher risk awareness and the strongest rate hardening for 20 years in non-life insurance commercial lines will combine to push premiums 10% above pre-COVID-19-crisis ...
U.S. Cyber Insurance Premiums Doubled Over 5 Years: Aon
U.S. cyber insurance premiums doubled over the previous five years, climbing 21 percent in 2020 alone, a new Aon study has found. At the same time, loss ratios have soared. Premiums in the sector ...