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...
Surplus Lines Rate Hikes to Slow As Competition Grows September 23, 2014 By Mark Hollmer Two insurance rating entities see slowing rate increases for the surplus lines segment in the coming months as competition grows....