Commercial Lines

Non-public property and casualty insurance carriers are reporting continued rate increases as direct premium written increased about 4 percent in 2011 compared to paltry growth of less than 1 percent in 2010, according to a report from SNL Financial.

Non-public property and casualty insurance carriers are reporting continued rate increases as direct premium written increased about 4 percent in 2011 compared to paltry growth of less than 1 percent in 2010, according to a report from SNL Financial.

I.I.I. President Robert Hartwig on industry surplus, Brown & Brown Chairman and acting President and CEO J. Hyatt Brown on the state of the market, and more.

I.I.I. President Robert Hartwig on industry surplus, Brown & Brown Chairman and acting President and CEO J. Hyatt Brown on the state of the market, and more.

PC360 visits the insurance-research labs at a trio of major carriers: Chubb, FM Global and Liberty Mutual. While on site, we witnessed explosions, earthquakes, flammable-liquid fires, treacherous test tracks and the awesome force of hurricane winds.

Chubb Corp. says the first quarter saw renewal rate increases across the board in U.S. commercial and specialty lines while first quarter net income for 2012 fell slightly to $506 million.