Underwriting & Pricing
Eight P/C Insurer Insolvencies in 2013 are Below Average: A.M. Best
There were a total of eight property/casualty insurers and one life/health insurance company that became financially impaired in 2013, according to A.M. Best. Of the nine impaired companies, eight ...
11 States Battle Drought, Heightened Wildfire Risk
Federal officials have designated portions of 11 drought-ridden western and central states as primary natural disaster areas, highlighting the financial strain the lack of rain is likely to bring to ...
Homeowners Choice First Admitted Carrier to Offer Flood Cover in Florida
Homeowners Choice Property & Casualty Insurance Company, Inc., a Florida based provider of homeowners insurance and wholly-owned insurance subsidiary of HCI Group, Inc., announced Thursday that ...Travelers’ Slowing of Price Hikes Raises Concerns; Shares Fall
U.S. insurer Travelers Cos. Inc.'s slowing pace of price hikes raised concerns about its margins and overshadowed a three-fold rise in quarterly profit, sending its shares down as much as 3 percent. ...
Reinsurance Costs Helping to Lower Florida Homeowners Rates: OIR
Florida's top insurance regulator says that state residents are starting to benefit from a more competitive homeowners market as rates have started to trend downward due in part to the reduction in ...Lower Disaster Claims, Higher Prices Boost Travelers’ Q4 Profit
Travelers Cos., the property/casualty insurer in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, said fourth-quarter profit more than tripled as claims costs from natural disasters fell a year after Superstorm ...
Expect Nothing ‘Radical’ in 2014 for Reinsurance Prices: Allianz Re CEO
Property and casualty reinsurance rates, which fell in seven of the last 10 years, probably won't rebound in 2014, the head of Allianz SE's reinsurance arm said. "Last year's catastrophe activity was ...
P/C Insurance Execs Expect TRIA Renewal, But Split on Workers Comp Profits
While more than 90 percent of property/casualty insurance industry executives say they expect renewal of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, the jury is out on whether commercial lines profits will ...