COVID-19 Costs Push Chubb to $331M Loss in Q2 July 29, 2020 By Mark Hollmer The coronavirus pandemic has forced global insurer Chubb’s net income to plunge, and in the second quarter, fall to a...
Workers Compensation Rates Could Start Rising in 2021, Says W.R. Berkley CEO July 28, 2020 By Mark Hollmer For W.R. Berkley Corp. and most other workers’ compensation carriers, rates have declined for some time. That trend could start...
Coronavirus, Civil Riot, Investment Losses Take Bite Out of W.R. Berkley Q2 Profit July 22, 2020 Larger investment losses and COVID-19 took a substantial bite out of W.R. Berkley’s 2019 second-quarter net income, but the specialty...
Coronavirus Claims of Estimated €80B Are ‘Manageable’ for Europe’s Insurers: Moody’s July 17, 2020 The coronavirus outbreak has had an adverse, but manageable, impact on the European insurance sector, leading to a drop in...
W.R. Berkley Estimates $85 Million in Q2 COVID Catastrophe Losses July 14, 2020 W.R. Berkley Corp. cautioned that its 2020 second quarter pretax catastrophe losses will reach $145 million, with more than half...
Chubb Estimates $1.4 Billion in Q2 Global Losses Tied to Coronavirus July 7, 2020 Chubb’s disclosure of second quarter 2020 global net catastrophe losses underscores the damage COVID-19 is doing to some carriers’ bottom...
Some Question Insurers’ Estimates of Coronavirus Business Interruption Claims June 12, 2020 By Alwyn Scott and Suzanne Barlyn U.S. property and casualty insurers have cast the coronavirus pandemic as an unprecedented event whose massive cost to small businesses...
S&P Pegs Coronavirus Losses at $15-$30B. Chief Risk Officers Think That’s Low. June 9, 2020 By Susanne Sclafane Analysts for Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings shared a view that U.S. underwriting losses from COVID-19 would fall in the...
Trade Credit Insurers Seek $60B from U.S. Towards Pandemic Payouts June 8, 2020 By Suzanne Barlyn U.S. trade credit insurers have approached the U.S. Treasury Department and Federal Reserve seeking financial backing for claims payments to...
Diverging Views: Is COVID a One-Off Catastrophe or Not? June 5, 2020 By Susanne Sclafane While reinsurers are “open for business” and insurers and reinsurers are reporting the impacts of COVID-19 as a one-off catastrophe...