The property-casualty insurance sector's investment position is such that it can easily ride out events like Tuesday's stock market dive, economic and equities analysts said.
A continuing stock slump might impact merger activity, one said, but otherwise they doubted there would be much of an effect.
Robert P. Hartwig, Insurance Information Institute president and chief economist, said p-c companies have only 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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