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Why Homeowners Insurers Are Losing Money: Roofs Matter, Not Just Rates
Rate hikes haven't been enough to bring profits to U.S. homeowners insurers, according to a new analysis from Aon, which finds that returns-on-equity for a group of homeowners insurers studied are ...
Personal Auto Insurance Could Be Obsolete in 20 Years: Morningstar
Self-driving cars could make personal auto insurance largely obsolete within 20 years, according to a worst-case scenario modeled by Morningstar. A more likely, moderate ...
State Farm Posts Worst HO Loss Ratio Since 2011; Peers Recover: S&P GMI
State Farm was the only one of 10 major players in the homeowners insurance market reporting a worse second-quarter loss ratio for the line than it did in 2023, according to a new analysis. The ...
Soft Commercial Market Ahead: Prepare for Underwriter ‘Herd Behavior’
Commercial insurance pricing is cyclical, and the top of the hard market cycle appears to be at hand. While traditional cycle models point the finger at the availability ...
AccuWeather Raises Helene Total Damage Estimates by $50B; Insured Loss Estimates Not Ready
While inland flooding complicates the picture of still-to-be-determined insured loss estimates from Hurricane Helene, a weather forecasting firm has already delivered a second estimate of total ...
Experts Predict Impacts of $20-$25B+ Milton Hit to Insurers, Reinsurers
A wide cone of uncertainty surrounds insurance experts' pre-landfall predictions about the state of the industry that will prevail in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, with most viewing it as a $20 ...
The Data Behind Rising Homeowners Premiums: By Peril and By State
The U.S. home insurance industry has experienced an upward trend in all-peril loss costs over the past seven years, according to a new report released by LexisNexis Risk Solutions. The ninth annual ...
Homeowners Insurers Argue for a 42% Average Rate Hike in North Carolina
With many western North Carolina residents still lacking power and running water from Hurricane Helene, a hearing began last Monday on the insurance industry's request to raise homeowner premium ...
Court Orders Start to Expose ‘Startling’ Data on Litigation Funding Sources
There is no federal law that requires the disclosure of litigation funding agreements in court cases, but some disturbing insight has been found in individual jurisdictions that have rules to ...
Homeowners Not Satisfied, Just Stuck With Insurers: J.D. Power
Although Chubb, AIG, Amica and Erie outranked peers in the U.S. homeowners insurance market on measures of customer satisfaction, the compiler of satisfaction scores—J.D. Power—believes customers ...
Underwriters Wary of PFAS Amid ‘Superstorm’ of Litigation, Regulation
As litigation and regulation increase around per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), insurance underwriting is tightening across lines. Insurance professionals who ...
7 in 10 Actuaries and Underwriters Worry About Being Replaced by AI
With the vast majority (91 percent) of insurance companies already investing in AI or planning to in the next five years, it's not surprising that nearly 7 in 10 ...
Reinsurers Open for Business—Even U.S. Casualty, Execs Say
Although Monte Carlo convos about reinsurer appetites for U.S. casualty business prompted some flashbacks to the 1980s, reinsurance company executives who spoke after the Rendez-Vous de Septembre ...
Insurance CEOs Talk Gen AI, Growth, Workforce Strategies
A much higher percentage of insurance chief executives say that generative AI is a top investment priority for their firms than peers in other industries, according to a survey report published by ...
Responding to Work Emails After Hours Contributes to Burnout, Hostility
Imagine it's Friday evening. You're about to watch a new Netflix drama, trying to unwind after a long week. Suddenly, your phone pings with a work email marked "urgent." ...
How to Grow Profitably in Seven Steps: Delegated Underwriting Is One
Insurers and reinsurers that achieve spectacular returns on average equity have seven common characteristics, according to Aon, which analyzed the performance of 100 insurers and reinsurers to ...
Primary Insurers Will Absorb $5B+ Hurricane Helene Losses: Rating Agencies
In initial commentaries released a day after Hurricane Helene made U.S. landfall, AM Best and Fitch Ratings both pegged insurance industry loss totals at at least $5 billion, indicating that primary ...
Underwriting Games: To Manage the Cycle Effectively, Focus on Behavior
Prices are under pressure in many insurance markets. After an extended period where pricing levels have risen and held at profitable levels, the balance of power appears to be shifting to buyers. In ...
Having It Both Ways
Over the past four decades, Robert "Bob" Hartwig has championed the critical role the insurance industry plays in the nation's economy. So, when the former Chief Economist and President of the ...
Where Are the Private Insurers? Analyses Highlight U.S. Flood Gap
Two new analyses—one from a risk modeler estimating insured damages from Hurricane Helene, and the other from a rating agency about flood insurance penetration and profitability—highlight the ...
The Latest Hurricane Helene Insured Loss Estimates: Totals Move Higher
Early estimates of Hurricane Helene U.S. private insurance market losses in the $5 billion to $10 billion range have moved up higher in recent days, with Moody's RMS offering the latest estimates of ...
Hurricane Milton Has Reshaped Storm Science Even Before Making Landfall
Long after the winds subside and the hard work of rebuilding begins, scientists responsible for predicting hurricanes will continue to replay Hurricane Milton over and ...
Small Track Changes Drive $70B+ Swing in Milton Insured Loss Estimates
Insured losses from Hurricane Milton could sit anywhere within a $70-plus-billion range extending from $9 billion to $85 billion, experts from CoreLogic said yesterday afternoon, at least nine hours ...
Mutual Insurers Chase Rate Adequacy, Financial Strength Remains Strong: AM Best
The U.S. property/casualty mutual segment has leaned on investment income to maintain strong overall financial performance and grow surplus in the face of underwriting volatility and severe ...
A View Into the Future of Car Insurance: When Driver Scores Replace Credit Scores
Offering a view into the future of auto insurance, the leader of a mobility data and analytics firm said during a recent interview that he foresees a time when drivers ...
The Merger of Strategy and Risk: Understanding the Why
Over the last few years, research has shown that an increasing number of employees want to understand the "why"—or otherwise have purpose—behind what they do to be ...
AI-Assisted Insurance Fraud on the Rise: UK Report
There's been a rise in AI -driven insurance fraud in the UK, as observed by claims handlers, according to fraud-prevention platform Sprout.ai and a survey conducted by Censuswide in July 2024. The ...
Filling a Perceived Void, Aon Launches U.S. Severe Convective Storm Model
Just a few weeks after unofficially announcing that a new catastrophe model was in the works, Aon officially announced the launch of a model to analyze U.S. Severe Convective Storms this week. Paul ...
Severity of Ransomware Attacks Rose 68% in First Half of 2024, Report Shows
Ransomware claims severity spiked by 68% to an average loss of $353,000, according to a new report by a cyber insurance provider. Coalition published its 2024 Cyber Claims Report: Mid-year Update, ...
Personal Lines Turnaround Fuels U.S. P/C Industry Underwriting Gain
A turnaround in the personal lines insurance segment results was a key driver of an overall $3.8 billion profit from underwriting for the U.S. property/casualty insurance industry, according to a new ...
Major Companies Abandon an LGBTQ+ Rights Report Card After Facing Anti-Diversity Backlash
More than two decades ago, when gay men and lesbians were prohibited from serving openly in the U.S. military and no state had legalized same-sex marriages, a national ...
PFAS by the Numbers: $165B Ground-Up* Litigation Losses Possible
When Frank Demento received a mailing from managers of his water district on Long Island last year, the news it contained seemed pretty good.
Broker Exec Decodes Property Reinsurer Speak: ‘We Want to Grow’
When the president of Aon attended the Rendez-Vous de Septembre, he came away with a forecast hidden behind the words reinsurers were explicitly delivering. "Each of the reinsurers led every meeting ...
World’s Largest Reinsurers: AM Best’s Latest Ranking…sort of
Every year around this time, AM Best publishes a single list of the "World's 50 Largest Reinsurers," ranked based on unaffiliated gross premiums recorded in the prior year. The latest installment, ...
Repeat of 1/1/2023 Reinsurance Hikes Unlikely As Reinsurers Take Milton Hit
Reinsurers will have some meaningful losses from Hurricane Milton but a replay of the shocking price hikes cedents experienced during Jan. 1, 2023 renewals isn't likely to repeat for 2025, Fitch ...
A Telematics Future: Don’t Forget Insurance Agents
During a recent interview, Matteo Carbone, director of the IoT Insurance Observatory, described a new set of approaches, modeled on the success of South African insurer Discovery, which U.S. auto ...
Study: MGA Market Still Growing
A hard market combined with underwriting capacity from fronting companies allowed for robust growth in the MGA market in 2023, according to a new Conning strategic study. The global investment ...
Agent Satisfaction With Insurers Holds Strong Despite Market Challenges
Overall agent satisfaction with insurers of both personal lines and commercial lines has held strong despite a challenging underwriting environment, says a new J.D. Power ...
How to Innovate in Homeowners Insurance
When the chief executive officer of Plymouth Rock Home Assurance spoke to Carrier Management in mid-July, it just happened to be on a day that online shoppers of books, ...
The High Cost of Negative Consumer Perception
Let's talk some truth. Of all the challenges the insurance industry is facing today, chief among them is the reality that insurance is becoming very hard for people to ...
Underestimated Risks: Why and What to Do
Organizations are faced with a complex mix of risks, regulations, external issues and technological advancements. Aligning strategy, operations, people, processes and ...
Rural Mutual, Badger Mutual Agree to Affiliate
Wisconsin-based mutual insurers, Rural Mutual Insurance Company and Badger Mutual Insurance Company, have announced an affiliation. The affiliation is subject to regulatory approval with an ...
Florida Issues Last Minute Emergency Rule to Deter Unfair Practices by Insurers
Just before Hurricane Milton made landfall on the West Coast of Florida, state officials pushed through an emergency rule aimed at insurance companies in an effort to deter unfair claims practices ...
Effective Fraud Detection: Leveraging Data at Scale
In an era of digital transformation, the insurance industry faces a growing challenge: managing and leveraging the ever-increasing volume of data that can be used to ...
Milton Threatens to Upend Shaky Florida Homeowners Insurance Market
Hurricane Milton threatens to swamp Florida's troubled property-insurance market, potentially pushing prices higher and threatening coverage in a storm-prone region that already has the highest ...
Auto Insurers Face Rising Repair Costs, EV and Tech Complexity in 2025: Report
Amid inflation and labor shortages, the growing impact of electric vehicles (EVs) and rising repair costs, insurers and repairers will have a bumpy road to navigate in the year ahead, according to ...
90% of Insurers Have GenAI Budgets; 10% Can Fully Comply With AI Regs
Data and technology leaders at insurance organizations are gung ho about using GenAI to increase customers satisfaction, reduce operating costs and improve risk management, but few are fully ready to ...
Federal Flood Maps Are No Match for Florida’s Double Hurricane
Even before the second megastorm in as many weeks brings devastating floodwaters to the Southeast U.S., it's already clear that federal flood-risk maps underpinning ...
Avoid Digital Transformation Remorse by Applying These Three Principles
Generative AI messaging is everywhere. New products continuously enter the market touting Gen AI capabilities. Established solutions regularly release new features ...
One-Third of Global Population at Risk for Floods: Moody’s
A new white paper from Moody's reveals that 2.7 billion people — more than one-third of the global population — live in areas vulnerable to inland or coastal ...