The upward pricing trends are continuing in the U.S commercial lines, but much more rate increases are still needed to...
hard market News

Although insurance rates have been drifting upward in recent months, the property/casualty industry is unlikely to see a return to...
Marsh executives said this week that they are only seeing a “targeted correction” — not a broad-based hard market —...

The current property/casualty market is not a “classic” hard market, yet anyway. While prices are clearly rising in certain lines...
A vast majority of corporate risk managers at U.S. companies are taking steps to prepare for a hardening property/casualty (P/C)...
Global property insurance rates continued to firm in the first quarter of 2012 and there are forces at play that...
With interest rates low and looking like they will stay low for some time to come, property/casualty insurance companies will...

The low interest-rate environment and poor investment income are pushing the need for more stringent underwriting for carriers, according to...
Most property/casualty insurance executives believe the worst of the financial crisis is over and that the industry is now in...

Despite more than $100 billion in disaster losses around the world this year, insurers are not yet experiencing a broad...