Personal Lines

Progressive says its net income for the first nine months of this year is down by 14 percent, or $106 million, to $653 million.

Mobile-home owners in Florida insured by the states residual property insurer will see rates rise by an average of 0.3 percent, the states Office of Insurance Regulation said late yesterday.

Mobile-home owners in Florida insured by the states residual property insurer will see rates rise by an average of 0.3 percent, the states Office of Insurance Regulation said late yesterday.

State Auto Financial Corporation will see a dramatic drop in third-quarter catastrophe losses, but the insurer says it must increase reserves for prior periods due to adverse claims development in a commercial auto trucking program that the company canceled as April 1, 2012.

Insured losses resulting from natural catastrophes in the U.S. and Europe totaled just over $280 million during September, says a new report.

Commercial-lines rates continued to climb in September, rising by 5 percent compared to the same month a year ago, according to MarketScouts latest analysis.