2014 commercial lines pricing News

Commercial Insurance Hits Pricing Lull in Q3: Towers Watson

Commercial insurance prices grew on average about three percent in the 2014 third quarter compared to the previous year. That matched last quarter’s uptick and halted more than a year of consecutively falling quarterly price hikes, Towers Watson reported in …

Commercial Lines Prices Up Only 4% in Q1: Towers Watson

Commercial insurance prices increased by 4 percent in aggregate during the first quarter of 2014, marking the lowest level of growth since fourth-quarter 2011, according to a new survey by Towers Watson. The increase is a full percentage point lower …

Analysts Weigh In on Travelers Earnings, Commercial Lines Pricing Trends

The Travelers Cos.’ earnings, one of the first major insurance earnings to be reported each quarter, are often closely observed by industry participants as a bellwether for marketplace trends. And the company’s latest quarterly results last week may reflect a …

Forecast for 2014 Commercial P/C Pricing: Willis

Commercial property insurance buyers could see prices fall from 10 to 20 percent on non-catastrophe risks in 2014 thanks to the influx of alternative capital to the insurance industry, insurance and reinsurance broker Willis Group Holdings says in its updated …