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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com |
April 9, 2012
Manhattan-based 4AutoInsuranceQuote.org says its study “seeks to dispel the thought that ‘driving while stoned’ is dangerous.”
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By Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com |
December 16, 2011
A hard market now would be “purely for the purpose of price gouging buyers of insurance, particularly commercial-lines insureds,” according to an Americans for Insurance Reform report that says the industry’s “little understood economic cycle” has been used to victimize policyholders for 35 years.
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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com |
December 13, 2011
For the second straight quarter, all standard commercial lines showed an increase in pricing, but it isn’t enough to keep up with loss costs.
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By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com |
March 25, 2011
Carriers say commercial insurance prices were relatively unchanged for the eighth consecutive quarter, while accident-year loss ratios deteriorated on a year-to-year basis, according to a recent pricing survey from Towers Watson.
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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com, Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com, Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com, Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com |
March 18, 2011
In the wake of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, with insured-loss estimates reaching as high as $35 billion, analysts and rating agencies fell on either side of the debate about whether the event will cause a turn in the long-running soft-market cycle.
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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com |
March 16, 2011
A question similar to one that followed the New Zealand earthquake earlier this year now follows the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake: Will this event be the one to harden rates?
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By Associated Press |
March 1, 2011
The European Union's highest court on Tuesday barred the insurance industry from charging different rates for men and women, saying the widespread practices amounts to sex discrimination against millions.
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By Robert P. Hartwig, Ph.d. |
January 24, 2011
With 2010 in the rearview mirror, it is now time to focus on 2011.
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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com |
December 13, 2010
Reserve releases that have cast a smokescreen in front of negative earnings in commercial lines will dwindle as the industry's reserve margin worsens, Moody's said.
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By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com |
November 24, 2010
Low investment yields and tight regulatory standards together may spell lower profits for the global insurance industry and higher prices for policyholders, a just-released Swiss Re report warns.
