Most Popular AM Best Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our AM Best Topic Page over the last year.
#1 Tariffs Will Negatively Affect Insurance Industry, Says AM Best
Mar 6 2025 // Analysts at AM Best warned that the planned imposition of U.S. tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, along with increased tariffs on China, will have a negative effect on the insurance industry—particularly...
#2 AM Best: US P/C Industry Improves Despite 2024 Underwriting Loss
Feb 21 2025 // The U.S. property/casualty industry took another underwriting loss in 2024, but results improved thanks to rate increases and changes in risk selection. A report from industry rating agency AM Best this week said U.S. P/C...
#3 AM Best Report Cites MGA’s Role in Insurer Insolvencies
Dec 18 2024 // This story has been edited for clarity. In May of 2022, as Florida lawmakers debated solutions to the Florida property insurance crisis, a number of Democrats in the state Senate argued litigation and roof claims were not...
#4 AM Best: US P/C Industry in 2024 Posts First Underwriting Profit in Four Years
Mar 18 2025 // For the first time in four years, the U.S. property/casualty industry will finish a year with an underwriting profit. AM Best today in a “First Look” at US P/C financial results said the industry left 2024 with...
#5 AM Best: US P/C Industry Records $1.1B Underwriting Loss for Q1
Jun 9 2025 // Growth in net earned premiums during the first three months of 2025 was offset by losses and expenses, resulting in a $1.1 billion net underwriting loss of the U.S. P/C industry. According to industry rating agency AM...
#6 13 US P/C Companies Impaired in 2023: AM Best
Feb 6 2025 // Thirteen U.S. property/casualty companies became impaired in 2023, 10 of which were placed into insolvent liquidation, according to an AM Best report. The insurance company impairments identified in the U.S....
#7 No NOAA Large-Disaster Data to Hurt Insurers’ Grasp of Secondary Perils, Says AM Best
May 20 2025 // Insurance industry financial strength rating agency AM Best said today that a decision to stop updating a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration disaster database could be detrimental to insurers and may require...
#8 As E&S Market Growth Hits New Heights, Some Risk May Be There to Stay: AM Best
Sep 24 2024 // In 2023 the U.S. surplus lines market for the first time surpassed the $100 billion mark in direct premiums written, and some of the risk that has found non-admitted insurers might stay there beyond an eventual turn in the...
#9 After Years of Losses, Florida Insurers Saw Underwriting Profits in 2024, AM Best Says
May 30 2025 // After eight years of losses, Florida’s personal property insurance market reported an underwriting profit and a considerable jump in operating income in 2024, the AM Best rating and analytics firm said in a report...
#10 AM Best: Migration to Cat-Prone States Fuels Record HO Underwriting Losses in 2023
Jul 29 2024 // The U.S. homeowners insurance segment suffered a $15.2 billion underwriting loss in 2023, more than double the loss seen in the previous year and the line’s worst underwriting results since at least 2000, according...
#11 AM Best: Tariff Uncertainty Could Lead to Credit Rating Changes for Insurers
Apr 15 2025 // According to AM Best, the balance sheets of insurers can be pressured by the stock and bond market volatility caused by recent tariffs, resulting in financial exposure that could lead to some changes in credit ratings. The...
#12 AM Best Assigns Issue Credit Rating to Church Mutual’s Surplus Notes
Aug 26 2024 // AM Best said it has assigned and placed under review with negative implications a Long-Term Issue Credit Rating of bbb+ (Good) to the $40 million, 9.5% surplus notes due 2044 issued by Church Mutual Insurance Company,...
#13 Mutual Insurers Chase Rate Adequacy, Financial Strength Remains Strong: AM Best
Sep 20 2024 // 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 weather-related activity,...
#14 AM Best Revises Credit Rating Outlook to Negative for NJM Insurance Group
May 1 2025 // Ratings agency AM Best has revised the outlook to negative from stable for the members of the NJM Insurance Group (NJM) for the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A+...
#15 AM Best Improves Outlook on US Personal Auto Segment to ‘Stable’
Nov 25 2024 // Insurance rating agency AM Best today said it has shifted its outlook of the U.S. personal auto insurance segment to stable from negative thanks to improving loss ratios of the top 20 carriers this year. Underwriting...
#16 AM Best Concerned D&O Prices ‘Fell Too Far, Too Quickly’
Mar 3 2025 // Insurance industry rating analysts from AM Best warn recent softer pricing for directors and officers coverage could begin to affect insurers’ underwriting results. AM Best noted renewal premium for monoline D&O...
#17 Outlook for US Commercial Insurance Segment ‘Stable’ as Profits Stay Strong: AM Best
Dec 2 2024 // AM Best is maintaining its stable market segment outlook on the U.S. commercial lines insurance sector for 2025, due partly to the segment’s persistently strong underwriting performance and improved investment...
#18 AM Best Revises Outlook for US Personal Lines Insurance Segment to ‘Stable’
Dec 2 2024 // AM Best has revised its outlook to stable from negative for the U.S. personal lines insurance segment for 2025, citing improved rate and pricing conditions, particularly in the auto insurance space, along with solid levels...
#19 Global Reinsurers’ ROE Jumps to 22% in 2023, but Market Softening Unlikely: AM Best
Nov 1 2024 // AM Best’s population of global reinsurance companies posted a return on equity (ROE) of 22% in 2023 – a five-year high that was driven mainly by favorable investment income and strong underwriting performance. The...
#20 AM Best: Unfavorable Operating Performance Key Driver of Downgrades
Sep 11 2024 // Deteriorating market conditions and rising loss costs led to a 60 percent increase in rating downgrades of AM Best-rated U.S.-based insurers in 2023 compared with two years earlier, according to a newly issued report. The...
