LA Wildfires by the Numbers: Insured Losses, Total Losses, Ratings, Rates January 24, 2025 By Don Jergler The impact of the historic Los Angeles-area wildfires is being broadly examined and continually refined, with updates almost daily on...
Hurricane Milton Could Use Up P/C Insurers’ 2024 Catastrophe Budgets October 10, 2024 S&P Global Ratings said potential losses from Hurricane Milton could fully deplete the 2024 natural catastrophe budgets for rated U.S....
Auto Insurance Results ‘Historically Bad’ in 2022: S&P May 12, 2023 In 2022, the U.S. private auto insurance industry reported its worst underwriting results in over two decades, according to a...
U.S. E&S Premiums Continue Growth in 2022: S&P November 30, 2022 By Chad Hemenway According to an analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence, the U.S. excess and surplus market continued to grow in 2022,...
Q3 Combined Ratio for U.S. P/C Industry Highest in 5 Years November 23, 2022 The U.S. property/casualty industry posted a combined ratio of about 106.6 in the third quarter – the highest in five...
Self-Fulfilling Rankings Boost Rating Agency Power: Researcher June 6, 2022 Agencies that rate and rank nations, corporations and colleges wield enormous power, influencing investment flows and prompting leaders to pursue...
Tesla Cut From S&P 500 ESG Index, and Elon Musk Tweets His Fury May 19, 2022 By Ross Kerber An S&P Dow Jones Indices executive told Reuters on Wednesday it has removed electric carmaker Tesla Inc. from the widely...
Assured Guaranty to Offer City of Hartford Refinancing Plan to Avoid Bankruptcy September 26, 2017 By Bhanu Pratap and Parikshit Mishra Securities insurer Assured Guaranty Ltd. said on Monday it would grant Hartford, the capital of Connecticut, a municipal bond that...
Insurers Unlikely to Be Impaired by Claims From Tianjin Port Explosion: S&P August 21, 2015 Insurers are unlikely to be impaired by the loss claims from the explosions in the Chinese Port of Tianjin last...
P/C Insurers Must Manage Emerging Risks Including the Next Big One June 10, 2014 Learning how to manage increasingly complex and evolving risks is essential if property/casualty insurers are to serve the needs of...