2011 Cats Drive Underwriting Losses; 2012 Begins With Rate Increases
Phil Gusman, Mark E. Ruquet
Catastrophe losses in 2011 led to the U.S. P&C industrys largest underwriting loss since 2002, according to A.M. Best. And while the latest MarketScout barometer shows that 2012 began with another month of commercial-lines rate increases, Best maintains that a true hard market is likely at least a year or...