US E&S Outlook No Longer Positive: AM Best December 1, 2025 AM Best revised its market segment outlook on the U.S. excess and surplus lines segment to stable from positive, the...
Surplus Lines Sector Shows 13.2% Rise in Premium Mid-Year: WSIA Report August 8, 2025 By Andrea Wells Surplus lines sector continues to grow with mid-year premium reaching $46.2 billion from the 3.7 million items filed so far...
US E&S Growth Slowed Again in ’24; Berkshire, AIG Top Premium Rankings June 26, 2025 By Susanne Sclafane A recent analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence reveals that the pace of growth in the U.S. excess and surplus...
Slower Growth but Surplus Lines Premiums Still Up 12% in 2024 February 6, 2025 By Chad Hemenway The excess and surplus lines market continued to grow in 2024, with premium reaching more than $81 billion, according to...
US E&S Growth Slower in 2023; Berkshire, AIG Top Premium Rankings June 13, 2024 An analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence reveals that the pace of growth in the U.S. excess and surplus lines...
E&S Market Lines Expand, Outperform Broader P/C in 2022 September 6, 2023 By Jahna Jacobson The U.S. excess and surplus (E&S) lines market had a good year in 2022, growing to account for nearly 9%...
Nation’s Excess & Surplus Market Reports 13% Growth Through Midyear August 14, 2019 The nation’s excess and surplus lines insurance industry is growing almost 13 percent faster halfway through this year than it...
Fitch Assesses Slowdown in E&S Market September 29, 2016 Excess and surplus lines underwriters continued to outperform the U.S. property/casualty industry at large in terms of combined ratio in...
Surplus Lines Posts Record-Breaking Year for 2014 September 4, 2015 By Andrea Wells The surplus lines industry broke records in 2014, growing direct premium written (DPW) in 2014 to $40.2 billion — the...
Execs Hired by Berkshire Specialty Balked at AIG Philosophy: Benmosche September 24, 2014 By Noah Buhayar and Zachary Tracer Robert Benmosche, who led American International Group Inc. for half a decade, said an emerging challenge from Warren Buffett’s Berkshire...