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Texas Surplus Lines Premium Up 6% for the Year
Nov 17 2017 // Texas has recorded $4.6 billion in surplus lines premium through the end of October 2017, a 6 percent increase over 2016, according to the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX). Providing an update at the annual...
Rate Increases Approved for Texas Automobile Insurance Plan Association
Nov 17 2017 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Kent Sullivan has approved changes in the rates for private passenger and commercial automobile insurance provided through the Texas Automobile Insurance Plan Association (TAIPA), which is the...
Hedge Funds Invest in Reinsurance Stocks on Expected Rate Hikes in 2018
Nov 16 2017 // Hedge funds bought reinsurance stocks in the third quarter after prices tumbled on widespread losses after multiple hurricanes in North America, filings showed on Wednesday. Hurricanes in the United States and the...
Florida Approves Workers’ Comp Rate Decrease of Nearly 10%
Nov 13 2017 // Florida Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier has issued a final order granting approval to the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) for a statewide overall rate level decrease of 9.5 percent and premium level...
October Commercial Insurance Renewal Rates Up Except Workers’ Compensation: IVANS Index
Nov 3 2017 // In October, premium renewal rates were up for the majority of standard commercial lines products, with workers’ compensation remaining the major line where rates did not go up, according to IVANS Index that tracks...
Swiss Re Posts $468M 9-Month Loss, Anticipates Re/Insurance Rate Hikes
Nov 2 2017 // A rise in insurance premiums, especially in areas affected by recent hurricanes and disasters, will help Swiss Re recover from almost half a billion dollars of losses in the first nine months of this year, it said on...
Florida Orders Workers’ Comp Rate Decrease of 9.8%
Nov 2 2017 // Florida Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier has ordered a statewide overall workers’ compensation rate decrease of 9.8 percent, a slightly higher decrease than the 9.6 percent decrease filed by the National Council...
Not All Expect Hurricanes to Bring 2018 P/C Insurance Hard Market
Oct 30 2017 // The worst hurricane season in modern U.S. history is starting to look like a blip on the charts of insurance stocks, with investors banking on a quick restoration of capital as firms rediscover pricing power. It’s a...
Global Re/Insurers Seek Premium Hikes After Costly 3rd Quarter
Oct 27 2017 // Insurers and reinsurers around the globe are looking to raise rates after what looks set to be their most costly quarter on record. Hurricanes Irma and Maria alone caused as much as $135 billion in insured losses,...
Insurers Weigh Premium Hikes for UK’s Tall Buildings After Grenfell Tower Fire
Oct 23 2017 // Insurers are considering raising premiums for tall buildings in Britain with flammable cladding panels and no sprinklers or even excluding related risks following the Grenfell fire in London earlier this year. Inquiries...
Delaware Announces Workers’ Compensation Rate Decrease
Oct 19 2017 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro has announced that there will be a decrease in workers’ compensation insurance rates, effective December 1, 2017. “This insurance rate decrease has a direct...
U.S. Homeowners’ Premiums Grow Despite Insurers’ Decreasing Return on Equity: Aon Benfield
Oct 17 2017 // When this year’s results are tallied, direct U.S. homeowners’ insurance premiums will have continued to grow, despite a decreasing return on equity for insurers. According to Aon Benfield’s annual...
Kansas Workers’ Comp Rates to Decrease in 2018
Oct 16 2017 // Kansas Commissioner of Insurance Ken Selzer announced that workers’ compensation insurance rates on average will drop in his state in 2018. The National Council on Compensations Insurance Inc. (NCCI) filing for the...
Q3 Catastrophe Losses Will Bring Rate Hikes by London Market Insurers: Fitch
Oct 16 2017 // Catastrophe losses from the recent U.S. hurricanes and Mexican earthquakes will lead to price rises on London market insurers’ loss-affected lines and could also affect wider market pricing trends, according to Fitch...
Idaho Workers’ Comp Rates to Decrease for 2018
Oct 16 2017 // The Idaho Department of Insurance has received a proposal from the National Council on Compensation Insurance for an overall rate drop of 5.8 percent percent to workers’ compensation insurance. The decrease is to...
Idaho Workers’ Comp Rates to Decrease for 2018
Oct 2 2017 // The Idaho Department of Insurance has received a proposal from the National Council on Compensation Insurance for an overall rate drop of 5.8 percent percent to workers’ compensation insurance. The decrease is to...
New Hampshire Workers’ Comp Rates May Decrease for Sixth Year in a Row
Oct 2 2017 // New Hampshire employers could pay less for their workers’ comp insurance next year because of a filing that lowers rates and loss cost factors insurers use to develop prices. This move would mark the sixth year in a...
Workers’ Comp Premiums Up 1.0% in First Half of 2017
Oct 2 2017 // Workers’ compensation insurers reported a modest increase in direct written premiums — a 1.0 percent increase — during the first six months of 2017 versus the same period in 2016. Workers’...
Analysts Expecting a Short-Term Hard Market for Property Risks
Oct 2 2017 // Damage left by Hurricanes Irma and Harvey will lead to a hardened property market and pricing correction, at least in the short-term according to a new KPMG survey. In related analysis, a new Morgan Stanley report...
Top Challenges for London’s Re/Insurers Are Soft Market, Brexit, Regulations: IUA
Sep 28 2017 // The top three challenges facing London market companies are the soft market, Brexit and regulatory compliance, according to a survey of International Underwriting Association (IUA) members. In an online questionnaire,...
