The property-casualty insurance sector's investment position is such that it can easily ride out events such as Tuesday's stock market dive, economic and equities analysts said.
A continuing stock slump might impact merger activity, one said, but otherwise they doubted much of an effect.
Robert Hartwig, Insurance Information Institute president and chief economist, said p-c companies have only a 17 percent of their assets in stocks so a drop in the price of shares would have only "a muted impact on the industry investment portfolio."
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