Latest Property Casualty Headlines
All the headlines from our Property Casualty Topic Page, ordered by recency.
People Moves: 3 Key Exec Roles Filled in Everest Wholesale Business; Willis Appoints Merker to Lead P/C Broking Sales
Apr 25 2025 // Everest of Warren, New Jersey, made three key leadership appointments to the company’s U.S. wholesale business, Everest Evolution. Matt Meserole has been named head of excess casualty, overseeing the strategic...
Navion Acquires P/C Business of Instasure in California
Apr 21 2025 // Navion insurance Associates Inc. acquired the property/casualty book of business from Instasure in California. Instasure is an insurance agency that specializes in serving the commercial insurance needs of clients. Navion...
US P/C Insurance Industry Income Tops $100B in 2024: Verisk, APCIA
Apr 7 2025 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry reported its first full-year underwriting gain in four years, fueling a jump in net income to $170 billion, according to a joint report from Verisk and The American Property...
AM Best: US P/C Industry in 2024 Posts First Underwriting Profit in Four Years
Apr 7 2025 // For the first time in four years, the U.S. property/casualty industry will finish a year with an underwriting profit. AM Best in a “First Look” at U.S. P/C financial results said the industry left 2024 with a...
Florida’s Universal P&C Overstated Claims to Cat Fund, Must Pay $4M Fine, AG Says
Apr 2 2025 // The Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund will not have to pay some $30 million to Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Co., after the carrier settled a civil suit that alleged the insurer had backdated claims to boost...
People Moves: JM Wilson Promotes Staruch, Dodd and Ladik and Re-Hires Snyder-Knutson; Huntington Hires Weaver as Senior Director of P&C
Apr 1 2025 // JM Wilson Promotes Staruch, Dodd and Ladik and Re-Hires Snyder-Knutson JM Wilson, headquartered in Portage, Michigan, Natalie Staruch was promoted to executive property & casualty (P&C) underwriter. She underwrites...
People Moves: Everest Re Taps Haines From Carpenter as Global Head of Engineering; MGA Aqueous Promotes Dorrell to New Role as Head of P/C
Mar 27 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Everest Re and the MGA Aqueous Underwriting. A summary of these new hires follows here. Everest Re Taps Haines From Carpenter as Global Head of...
US P/C Insurance Industry Income Tops $100B in 2024: Verisk, APCIA
Mar 21 2025 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry reported its first full-year underwriting gain in four years, fueling a jump in net income to $170 billion, according to a joint report from Verisk and The American Property...
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...
Not Only the Fires Are Wild: California and the P&C Market Outlook
Mar 18 2025 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. After years of watching insurance carriers exit the California property and casualty market, the state may see another exodus in the wake of the January 2025 wildfires...
US P/C Industry Improves Despite 2024 Underwriting Loss: Changes in Personal Lines Segment Driver of Expected Improvement
Mar 10 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, most notably in the personal lines sector. A report from industry...
People Moves: Incline P&C Group Adds Wafer as Independent Director
Feb 24 2025 // Incline P&C Group, a leading insurance program market services firm, has elected Thomas Wafer to the Board of Directors of each of its insurance carriers as an independent director. Wafer brings over 40 years of...
Chubb Posts Record P/C Underwriting Income for Q4 and 2024
Feb 24 2025 // Chubb posted record property/casualty underwriting income of about $1.6 billion, up 3.8% during the last quarter of 2024. Fourth-quarter net income was down 22% to about $2.6 billion compared to the same period a year ago,...
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...
People Moves: BMS Taps Howden Re’s Biddell as Managing Director and Head of London P/C; MGA DUAL UK Makes 3 Senior Appointments in Underwriting and Distribution
Feb 13 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at the broker BMS and the managing general agent DUAL UK. A summary of these new hires follows here. BMS Taps Howden Re’s Biddell as Managing Director...
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....
Pennsylvania Says It Blocked $180 Million in Auto, Home, Other P/C Insurance Hikes
Jan 31 2025 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department (PID) reported that in 2024 it refused to approve $180.3 million in annual property/casualty (P/C) insurance premium increases in the state through its rate review processes. The PID...
Chubb Posts Record P/C Underwriting Income for Q4 and 2024
Jan 29 2025 // Chubb posted record property/casualty underwriting income of about $1.6 billion, up 3.8% during the last quarter of 2024. Fourth quarter net income was down 22% to about $2.6 billion compared to the same period a year ago,...
P/C Market Profit Improvement Expected to Continue Through 2026: Triple-I, Milliman
Jan 17 2025 // The “gap is closing” between commercial lines and personal lines underwriting results as the insurance industry overall is expected to continue its run of premium growth and improved underwriting results over...
People Moves: Lockton Re’s International P/C Division Names Moruzzi, Cope as Senior Brokers; Westfield Specialty Int’l Appoints Nugent, Beltran for Professional Indemnity
Jan 15 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Lockton Re and Westfield Specialty International. A summary of these new hires follows here. Lockton Re’s International P/C Division Appoints Moruzzi...
