July 27, 2015
McGraw Hill Financial Inc. agreed to buy SNL Financial, the financial news and data services provider owned by buyout firm New Mountain Capital, for about $2.23 billion to add content on the banking and insurance industries. SNL joins a roster …
December 19, 2014
Private auto insurance industry direct premiums written rose 5.13 percent in the third quarter of 2014, the largest third-quarter year-over-year growth in the past 10 years, according to an analysis by SNL Financial. The 30 largest auto writers by market …
October 31, 2014
Direct premiums written for the directors’ and officers’ liability insurance industry grew 7.35 percent year over year in the first half of 2014, rising to $2.91 billion, according to an SNL Financial analysis of monoline D&O policies. Growth in written …
September 26, 2014
CSAA Insurance Exchange, which sells private auto insurance to AAA members in about 25 states, experienced double-digit year-over-year growth in personal auto business, far outpacing other top writers in the second quarter, a new analysis by SNL Financial shows. SNL …
May 5, 2014
GEICO Corp. beat out its competitors in premium growth in 2013 and reported one of the best underwriting margins among the top 20 U.S. auto insurers. According to a report by SNL Financial, GEICO’s direct personal auto premiums, prior to …
March 14, 2013
Financial information firm SNL Financial’s preliminary analysis of more than 2,600 individual property/casualty filer’s statutory data illustrates how big of an impact Superstorm Sandy had on the filers’ underwriting results. SNL said this week one individual filer whose 2012 underwriting …
November 20, 2012
A number of insurers have begun issuing their Sandy loss estimates in the weeks since the superstorm devastated the East Coast. The SNL Financial compiled these company-specific loss estimates in a new report this week. United Fire Group Inc. expects …
July 2, 2012
RLI Corp. tops the list of property/casualty commercial lines carriers ranked by financial performance for the 12 months ending March 31, based on a review by SNL. RLI beat out Chubb, Dorinco Reinsurance and Argo Group for top honors. RLI, …