Personal Lines

Snowmobile accidents are more common than you'd think. Foremost Insurance provides safety tips for snowmobile enthusiasts this winter to help avoid filing a claim.

Personal-lines insurers should show year-over-year profit improvement when they report 2013 results, and the combined ratio for both personal auto and homeowners should come in under 100, according to a Fitch Ratings personal-lines dashboard update.

Personal-lines insurers should show year-over-year profit improvement when they report 2013 results, and the combined ratio for both personal auto and homeowners should come in under 100, according to a Fitch Ratings personal-lines dashboard update.

The Chevrolet Spark was the only minicar out of 11 tested to earn an acceptable rating in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safetys small overlap front-crash test, which was introduced in 2012.

Lower catastrophe losses helped send The Travelers Companies, Inc.s 2013 fourth-quarter net income soaring 225% to $988 million, compared to 2012 fourth-quarter net income of $304 million.

European insurers investments are becoming riskier, and that could mean negative ratings implications for the carriers, Fitch Ratings says.