Volkswagen AGs diesel-cheating affair deepened as the European Union urged all 28-member countries to start their own investigations and the scandal threatened to ensnare rival BMW AG.
More competitive P&C insurance premium rates plus higher catastrophe losses in 2015 are leading to toward break-even underwriting results and lower ROEs.
Things are looking up in the construction industry. Private nonresidential construction spending increased nearly 13% to $187.5 billion in the first seven months of 2014, according to Fitch Ratings, compared to just more than 1% last year. Through August, housing starts were up 8% from the prior year, according to...
Surplus lines underwriters outperformed the P&C insurance industry's combined ratio by an average of 10 percentage points for the 2009 to 2013 period, according to a new report by Fitch Ratings.