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Minnesota Fraud Bureau: Insurance Fraud Referrals Up in 2019 but not for Agents
Nov 24 2020 // While Minnesota insurance regulators saw an uptick in the number of fraud case referrals during 2019, agent and broker fraud referrals were down significantly that year, the most recent for which insurance fraud statistics...
What Congress Should Do, or Not Do, to Rescue Businesses in Future Pandemics
Nov 20 2020 // Congress is weighing whether insurers and government can together “bend pandemic risk curves” for future events or simply replace some of the economic losses of businesses, putting them “into induced...
Kentucky AGC Self-Insurers’ Fund to Return $18.5M In Dividends, Decrease Rates
Nov 20 2020 // The Kentucky Associated General Contractors Self-Insurers’ Fund, a workers’ compensation insurance provider in the state of Kentucky, will return more than $18.5 million, including special fund tax...
Pace of Broker Acquisitions Picks Up in 2nd Half, After COVID-Linked Lull in Q2
Nov 19 2020 // Insurance brokers have stepped up their acquisition pace in the second half of 2020 after a pause in the second quarter related to the coronavirus and the steep economic decline, according to a report published by...
Canada’s Intact Financial Caps Decade of Acquisitions with $9.4 Billion RSA Deal
Nov 19 2020 // After a decade of buying up rivals to become Canada’s largest property and casualty insurer, Intact Financial Corp. is looking across the Atlantic with its biggest deal yet. Intact sealed an agreement Wednesday to...
S&P Finds U.S. Insurers Made Modest Gains in Diversity Over Decade
Nov 18 2020 // The U.S. insurance industry has achieved only modest gains in increasing diversity over the last 10 years, according to government data compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence. S&P found that the percentage of...
Is the Aviation Insurance Market Ready for a COVID-19 Vaccine?
Nov 17 2020 // As the development, and possible mass production, of COVID-19 (C-19) vaccines gather speed, the transportation and logistics industry will need to turn its attention to how the product can be safely and efficiently...
Ten Largest Insurance Markets Likely to See 4.5% Drop in GDP During 2020
Nov 17 2020 // The world’s 10 largest insurance markets are cumulatively expected to see their gross domestic product (GDP) decrease by 4.5% in 2020 compared to 2019 because of COVID-19, according to a new Insurance Information...
Zeta’s Total Onshore U.S. Insured Losses Could Rise to $5B: RMS
Nov 16 2020 // Catastrophe risk modeler RMS has estimated that insured losses from Hurricane Zeta could rise to as high as $5 billion in the U.S. That figure is slightly higher than estimates announced earlier by catastrophe modelers AIR...
Aon Invests $30 Million to Create 10,000 Apprenticeships Nationwide by 2030
Nov 12 2020 // Global insurance broker Aon said it is expanding its corporate apprenticeship program with an investment of $30 million over the next five years. With this expansion, Aon hopes to develop a nationwide network of employers...
Zurich Insurance Reports Sales Growth, Higher Rates, Modest COVID-19 Claims
Nov 12 2020 // Zurich Insurance Group saw increased commercial lines insurance sales and a modest impact from COVID-19 related claims for the first nine months of the year, according to its third quarter report. Growth was supported by...
Florida Regulator Calls for Further Workers’ Comp Rate Decrease
Nov 10 2020 // Florida’s insurance regulator has called for a further decrease to proposed workers’ compensation insurance rates in response to a filing by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI). In an order...
Rating Outlooks for United Equitable, American Heartland Insurance Revised to Negative
Nov 6 2020 // AM Best has revised the outlooks to negative from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of C++ (Marginal) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) of “b” for United Equitable...
RMS: Total Onshore U.S. Insured Zeta Losses Could Rise to $5B
Nov 5 2020 // Catastrophe risk modeler RMS has estimated that insured on losses from Hurricane Zeta could rise to as high as $5 billion in the U.S. That figure is slightly higher than estimates announced by catastrophe modelers AIR...
U.S. P/C Insurer Impairments Rise Slightly in 2019: AM Best
Nov 5 2020 // The U.S. property/casualty industry saw 13 new insurance company impairments in 2019, two more than in 2018, involving entities operating in a mix of lines of business and a variety of states, according to a new AM Best...
California’s Temporary Total Disability Rates for 2021 Increasing
Nov 2 2020 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation announced that the 2021 minimum and maximum temporary total disability rates will increase on Jan. 1, 2021. The minimum TTD rate will increase from $194.91 to $203.44...
Michigan Insurance Market at a Glance
Nov 2 2020 // The reform of Michigan’s auto insurance market, which went into effect on July 1, 2020, brought the promise of much-needed premium relief for Michigan drivers. An April 2019 study by the Insurance Research Council...
1 in 4 Businesses Has Experienced Cyber Event, Travelers Survey Finds
Nov 2 2020 // Nearly one in four respondents (22%) out of more than 1,200 business leaders surveyed in 2020 Travelers’ Cyber Risk Index said their firm was the victim of a cyber event — the highest percentage since the...
Agency E&O Survey: More See Premiums on the Rise
Nov 2 2020 // According to Insurance Journal’s 2020 Agency E&O survey, slightly more than half of all respondents (50.2%) saw an increase in their E&O renewal premium from 2019 to 2020, and 53.8% expect another increase at...
Florida Property Insurance Market Inches Closer to Crisis – Part 2
Oct 30 2020 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation is monitoring the state’s property insurance situation that is seen as in a crisis by those in the industry. The regulator said the insurance market has been buffeted by...
