Latest Social Inflation Headlines
All the headlines from our Social Inflation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Social Inflation’s Impact on Insurance in 2025
Mar 21 2025 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. Social inflation is not a new phenomenon, but its effects are becoming more pronounced across the insurance industry. In Episode 11 of What’s Brewing,...
3 Emerging Risks to Watch: Social Inflation, Electric Trucks, Virtual Currencies
Feb 24 2025 // The business environment is constantly evolving, with each new development and innovation offering a unique variety of potential risks and rewards. Broad, systemic challenges may sometimes create unexpected obstacles,...
Quantifying Social Inflation: How Swiss Re Developed an Index
Dec 11 2024 // Swiss Re Institute (SRI) made a significant contribution to the literature on social inflation and its impacts on insurers, reinsurers and their customers with the calculation of a new measure—a social inflation index....
Unite and Conquer: How the Insurance Industry Can Deflate Social Inflation
Nov 27 2024 // At one of the early meetings of American Legal Connections, Rich Henderson, a senior vice president for reinsurer TransRe, bumped into a concerned client from a hospital insurance company who brought his team members to...
Economic, Social Inflation Influence Drop in Commercial Auto UW Profits: Triple-I/CAS
Nov 18 2024 // Commercial auto insurance has struggled to achieve underwriting profitability, even before inflationary conditions affected property/casualty lines in recent years. The trend has been accompanied by steady growth in net...
Economic, Social Inflation Influence Drop in Commercial Auto UW Profits: Triple-I/CAS
Oct 28 2024 // Commercial auto insurance has struggled to achieve underwriting profitability, even before inflationary conditions affected property/casualty lines in recent years. The trend has been accompanied by steady growth in net...
Navigating Social Inflation in a World of Complex Claims
Oct 21 2024 // As social inflation continues to exert pressure on the insurance industry, this is not only a financial issue, but one with far-reaching impacts on insurers, beneficiaries and society at large. Rising litigation costs,...
US Nuclear Verdicts Break Records and Drive Social Inflation to 7% in 2023: Report
Oct 7 2024 // Nuclear verdicts in the United States are breaking records with 27 court cases each awarding compensation of more than $100 million during 2023, according to Swiss Re executives. Social inflation in the U.S. rose to 7% in...
RAND Study Eyes Impact of Legal System Abuse, Social Inflation
Sep 16 2024 // A study from RAND found that rising litigation rates, trial awards and claim severity are consistent with the expected effects of social inflation. The study, What Is the Evidence for Social Inflation? Trends in Trial...
US Nuclear Verdicts Break Records and Drive Social Inflation to 7% in 2023: Report
Sep 11 2024 // Nuclear verdicts in the United States are breaking records with 27 court cases each awarding compensation of more than US$100 million during 2023, according to Swiss Re executives. Social inflation in US rose to 7% in 2023...
RAND Study Eyes Impact of Legal System Abuse and Social Inflation
Aug 22 2024 // A study from RAND found that rising litigation rates, trial awards and claim severity are consistent with the expected effects of social inflation. The study, What Is the Evidence for Social Inflation? Trends in Trial...
Commercial Lines Not at Top of Cycle; ‘Thieves’ Fuel Social Inflation: CEOs
Jul 9 2024 // It’s not waning market discipline but the scourge of social inflation that industry leaders of commercial lines insurance businesses see as a potential threat to future profits, a trio of property/casualty chief...
Social Inflation Fix: Insurers Can’t Be Out Front, Chubb’s Greenberg Says
Jun 6 2024 // Although insurers can help to stop the growth of social inflation, they can’t lead the effort, an industry executive said during an insurance conference this week. Evan Greenberg, chair and chief executive officer of...
Social Inflation Key Factor in Rise of Loss Severity: AM Best
Jun 3 2024 // Loss severity for many U.S. casualty lines of insurance business has exceeded economic inflation over the past decade, indicating other factors are influencing claims costs for indemnity and expense payments, according to...
AM Best: Social Inflation Key Factor in Rise of Loss Severity
May 13 2024 // Loss severity for many U.S. casualty lines of insurance business has exceeded economic inflation over the past decade, indicating other factors are influencing claims costs for indemnity and expense payments, according to...
What Industry Executives Are Saying About Loss Reserves, Social Inflation
Apr 15 2024 // Executives at carriers and reinsurers that announced reserve loss charges taken during fourth-quarter 2023, and even at some that did not, discussed the “problematic accident years” and lines of business,...
Viewpoint: Insurers, Insureds Must Collaborate to Get Ahead of Social Inflation
Mar 14 2024 // Executive Summary: Setting up mock jury trials, taking cases to trial and refraining from issuing “hammer” letters to lower-layer insurers are just three of the strategies Aspen’s Chief Claims Officer...
Casualty Reinsurance Renewals See Modest Price Hikes Despite Social Inflation: AM Best
Mar 4 2024 // Reinsurers in general maintained adequate capacity for casualty programs, despite concerns about social inflation and some recent reserve strengthening actions, according to a report from AM Best. For reinsurers, a...
Casualty Reinsurance Renewals See Modest Price Hikes Despite Social Inflation: AM Best
Feb 15 2024 // Reinsurers in general maintained adequate capacity for casualty programs, despite concerns about social inflation and some recent reserve strengthening actions, according to a report from AM Best. For reinsurers, a...
Q3 Net Income Up 45.7% at W.R. Berkley as it Handles Unabated ‘Burn’ of Social Inflation
Oct 24 2023 // Third quarter net income at W.R. Berkley Corp. increased nearly 46% compared to the same period last year to about $334 million. The Greenwich, Connecticut-based insurer’s consolidated combined ratio for the quarter...
