Conning: Poor Investments Dim P-C Outlook

NU Online News Service, June 3, 9:53 a.m.EDT?Despite rate increases, property-casualty insurerswill not see any "dramatic improvement" in their financial resultsthis year or in 2004, partly because of poor investment yields andpotential reserve boosts, according to a Conning Research &Consulting Inc. study.

Michael Weinstein, Director of Research at New York-basedConning, said that benefits of rate increases have mostly beenoffset by the industry's declining investment income.

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