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Aon says insureds can expect commercial property rates to continue their modest rise through the first half of 2013, with Superstorm Sandy victims bearing the brunt of that increase.

Federal Emergency Management Agency officials are girding for sticker-shock outrage from consumers as they prepare to implement across-the-board rate increases in the flood-insurance program.

Federal Emergency Management Agency officials are girding for sticker-shock outrage from consumers as they prepare to implement across-the-board rate increases in the flood-insurance program.

Commercial-lines rates in the U.S. and abroad continued their recent trend of moderate increases last month, according to two recent analyses.

Power-generating companies have had at least one major loss in excess of $25 million each year since 2005, and the continuing trend could lead to price and capacity issues if insurers begin to leave the market, according to a report from insurance-broker Marsh.

Reinsurers earnings rebounded during the first half of 2012, a function of relatively low catastrophe losses so far this year and higher rates in the aftermath of the colossal natural-catastrophe losses that pounded the insurance industry in 2011, according to John Welch, president of XL Re America Inc.

The sun shone on Bermudas reinsurers during the first quarter of 2012, but regulatory changes and cat losses still lurk in the water.

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