Markel Corp. indicates talk of a hard market may be premature because insurers are not exhibiting the same underwriting discipline for new business as they are for renewals.

First-quarter net income at Nationwide was $508 million, compared to $501 million for the same period a year ago, but operating income fell more than 40 percent.

One of the largest writers of homeowners insurance in Florida reports a 29 percent drop in first-quarter earnings.

A reduction in catastrophe losses allowed XL Group to swing to a first-quarter profit after suffering a loss in 2011s first quarter.

A reduction in catastrophe losses allowed XL Group to swing to a first-quarter profit after suffering a loss in 2011s first quarter.

The head of American International Groups commercial-insurance division says the bailed-out insurers reputation is not an issue, and, in fact, competitors may have erred by not working harder to take AIGs insurance business when it was on the verge of collapse.

A recent survey leads The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers to declare that the commercial P&C market has definitely hardened.

A recent survey leads The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers to declare that the commercial P&C market has definitely hardened.