Latest Pricing Trends Headlines
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ProMutual Group Holds Rates Steady
May 17 2011 // Boston-based medical malpractice insurer ProMutual Group said it will not increase rates this year for Massachusetts doctors and will pay a 6 percent dividend for a third straight year. The company insures more than 7,500...
Survey: Commercial Lines Prices Fall 3% in Q1
May 16 2011 // Commercial property/casualty pricing declined again with an average decline of 3 percent in the first quarter of 2011. But according to a new industry survey, the pace of pricing declines may be slowing down. The market...
Hiscox Issues Interim Management Statement; Sees Future Rate Hikes
May 10 2011 // Hiscox Ltd., which operates in the U.S., Bermuda and Europe, as well as the Lloyd’s and UK market, has issued its Interim Management Statement for the first three months of the year to 31 March 2011. Hiscox said its...
Survey: Commercial Lines Prices Fall 3% in Q1
May 4 2011 // Commercial property/casualty pricing declined again with an average decline 3 percent in the first quarter of 2011. But according to a new industry survey, the pace of pricing declines may be slowing down. The market...
Louisiana’s Amerisafe Sees Hike in Written Premiums in Q1 2011
May 3 2011 // DeRidder, La.-based Amerisafe, Inc. a specialty provider of hazardous workers’ compensation insurance, announced that premiums earned during the first quarter ended March 31, 2011, rose 9.1 percent over that of the...
Property Rates Expected to Rise From Catastrophes, Revised Cat Model
May 2 2011 // Property insurance rates could be on the rise thanks to first quarter catastrophe losses, including the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and a revised catastrophe model. During the second quarter, rates for North American...
Mercury General Reports Modest Increase in Net Premiums
May 2 2011 // Los Angeles-based Mercury General Corp. has reported net income in the first quarter 2011 was $58.2 million, compared with net income of $61.2 million for the same period in 2010. Included in net income are net realized...
Overcapacity in P/C Insurance Keeping Commercial Prices Down
May 2 2011 // Most commercial lines insurance prices continued their downward trend in the first quarter, as underwriters’ efforts to hold the line on premiums buckled under the pressure of a highly overcapitalized market. Three...
P/C Premium Growth Not Enough for Market Turnaround: Conning
May 2 2011 // The property/casualty insurance industry can expect premium growth of between 3 and 4 percent in 2011, and about 5 percent for the following two years, according to a forecast from analysts at Conning Research &...
W.R. Berkley Reports Slight Price Increases in Q1
Apr 26 2011 // Prices were up in nearly all segments at W.R. Berkley Corp. in the first quarter while overall net written premiums grew 10 percent. Net income for the quarter was $116 million, or 79 cents per share, compared to $119...
Overcapacity in P/C Insurance Keeping Commercial Prices Down
Apr 26 2011 // Most commercial lines insurance prices continued their downward trend in the first quarter, as underwriters’ efforts to hold the line on premiums buckled under the pressure of a highly overcapitalized market. Three...
P/C Premium Growth Not Enough for Market Turnaround: Conning
Apr 25 2011 // The property/casualty insurance industry can expect premium growth of between 3 and 4 percent in 2011, and about 5 percent for the following two years, according to a forecast from analysts at Conning Research &...
Reinsurance Rates Up, But Few Agree How Much
Apr 18 2011 // Reinsurance rates may be edging higher only now, but the companies’ shares could still surge amid investor hopes that disasters, including Japan’s earthquake, will result in much higher rates in the...
As Insurance Rates Rise, Missisippians Urged to Take Mitigation Seriously
Apr 15 2011 // Mississippi Gulf Coast residents have been told mitigation is the answer to the region’s high insurance rates. “What do you do to lower rates? It is pretty simple. If you want to lower rates on the Gulf Coast,...
Allstate Agrees to Reduced Rate Hike, Policy Drops in Mississippi
Apr 13 2011 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney has agreed to let Allstate Property and Casualty Co. increase homeowner insurance rates 19.4 percent in the state. Chaney said that Allstate was threatening to drop 18,000...
Massachusetts Workers’ Compensation Rates Not Going Up
Apr 13 2011 // Massachusetts regulators and insurers have agreed that workers’ compensation rates will not rise. Last month, the industry filed for a 6.6 percent average increase effective Sept. 1 but insurers have agreed to hold...
Florida Approves 18.8% State Farm Rate Increase
Apr 12 2011 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has approved a statewide average 18.8 percent rate increase in State Farm’s homeowners’ policies, which is roughly 10 percent below the 27.9 percent it initially...
How Rising Energy Prices Affect P/C Insurance
Apr 11 2011 // The leveling off of the world’s oil supply and the resulting rising gasoline prices and their economic impact carry implications for property/casualty insurance rates. Oil spikes have been known to precede...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Rating Bureau Could Recommend 40% Rate Increase
Apr 6 2011 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California is discussing a pure premium rate increase of up to 40 percent at today’s Governing Committee meeting, according to industry reports. The WCIRB...
Reinsurance Rates Rising, But Few Agree Where, How Much
Apr 6 2011 // Reinsurance rates may be edging higher only now, but the companies’ shares could still surge amid investor hopes that disasters, including Japan’s earthquake, will result in much higher rates in the...
