Most Popular Commercial Lines Headlines This Year

The most viewed headlines from our Commercial Lines Topic Page over the last year.

#1 Aon to Buy Middle-Market Broker NFP for $13.4 Billion

Dec 20 2023 // Aon plc this morning said it has a $13.4 billion deal in place to purchase broker NFP to expand its middle-market segment.The purchase price will be funded by $7 billion in cash and $6.4 billion of Aon stock. Closing is...

#2 Soft Commercial Market Ahead: Prepare for Underwriter ‘Herd Behavior’

Oct 29 2024 // Executive Summary: During the period 2013 through 2018, the U.S. did not become less litigious nor did Atlantic sea surface temperatures get less warm. Yet rates for U.S. excess liability and Atlantic hurricane both...

#3 Ohio Manufacturer Fined $314K Following Fatal Workplace Incident

Apr 23 2024 // An Ohio subsidiary of one of the world’s largest automotive suppliers could have prevented a 26-year-old employee in Franklin from being fatally crushed in October 2023 if the company had provided proper machine...

#4 QBE to Non-Renew $500M of North American Mid-Market Biz

Jun 19 2024 // QBE announced that it will start shutting down the middle-market segment in North America to focus on North American businesses where it has more meaningful market position, relevance and scale.Three core businesses...

#5 Aon Completes $13B Acquisition of Middle-Market Broker NFP

Apr 26 2024 // Aon plc said late Thursday that it has completed its $13 billion acquisition of middle-market P/C broker NFP.The purchase price will be funded by $7 billion in cash and $6 billion of Aon stock. Closing was earlier than...

#6 Farmers to Resume Offering Key Lines of Business Insurance in California

May 14 2024 // Farmers Insurance said it will resume accepting new business commercial multi-peril applications for auto service & repair, habitational, manufacturing, real estate and wholesale distribution policies in California.The...

#7 Employer Can’t Deny Comp Claim in Shooting Then Argue Immunity, Court Says

Apr 26 2024 // An employer cannot deny a workers’ compensation claim on the grounds that a shooting injury was not work-related then turn around and argue it has immunity from a tort lawsuit because the incident happened at work, a...

#8 25 Straight Quarters of Premium Increases for Commercial Lines: CIAB Survey

Mar 4 2024 // Overall commercial property/casualty premiums increased slightly for all account sizes to 7% on average in the fourth quarter 2023, continuing a trend that has now last more than 6 years.According to The Council of...

#9 Construction Defects Are Not Covered Property Damage in Commercial Liability Policy

Aug 16 2024 // A home builder is not covered under the property damage coverage in its commercial liability policy for construction defects for which it was responsible.A three-judge panel of the Massachusetts Appeals Court has held for...

#10 CIAB: Clear Evidence of Softening Commercial P/C Market Conditions in Q2

Aug 20 2024 // Commercial property/casualty premium increases in the second quarter 2024 were flat or down from the previous quarter for all lines of business—evidence of a softening insurance market, according to The Council of...

#11 Aon-NFP Merger a Win-Win for Middle Market Segment, Aon Says

Dec 22 2023 // A merger between Aon and NFP will be a win-win for both brokers, creating a company that will be greater than the sum of its parts. While those weren’t the exact words used by Aon’s CEO Greg Case, they were...

#12 Report: 2023 Combined Ratio Forecast at 103.9, Commercial Lines Performed Best

Feb 1 2024 // The 2023 net combined ratio for the property/casualty industry is forecast to be 103.9, with commercial lines at 97.7 and personal lines at 109.9, according to the latest underwriting projections by actuaries at the...

#13 Marsh: US Commercial Insurance Rates Up 3% on Hikes in Casualty

Oct 24 2024 // Commercial insurance rates during the third quarter in the U.S. increased 3%, with casualty rates up 10%.According to Marsh’s Global Insurance Market Index — which noted the first decline in global commercial rates...

#14 Landlords Face a $1.5 Trillion Commercial Real Estate Maturity Wall

Sep 3 2024 // Landlords for offices, apartment complexes and other commercial real estate have $1.5 trillion of debt due by the end of next year, and about a quarter of that borrowing could be hard to refinance, according to Jones Lang...

#15 Report: 2023 Combined Ratio Forecast at 103.9, Commercial Lines Performed Best

Feb 19 2024 // The 2023 net combined ratio for the property/casualty industry is forecast to be 103.9, with commercial lines at 97.7 and personal lines at 109.9, according to the latest underwriting projections by actuaries at the...

#16 Commercial Property Insurance Market Proving More Stable, Capitalized: USI

Jun 6 2024 // Following last year’s historically challenging property insurance market, 2024 is proving to be “a more stable and capitalized market,” USI Insurance Services reported in its latest Commercial Property...

#17 Commercial Property Rates Not Expected to Increase at Same Pace as 2023: USI

Jan 16 2024 // A new USI Insurance Services report forecasts that in 2024, commercial property insurance rates “are expected to increase, but not at the same pace as seen in 2023.”“Our forecast calls for 5% to 15% rate...

#18 Commercial Lines Not at Top of Cycle; ‘Thieves’ Fuel Social Inflation: CEOs

Jul 9 2024 // It’s not waning market discipline but the scourge of social inflation that industry leaders of commercial lines insurance businesses see as a potential threat to future profits, a trio of property/casualty chief...

#19 CIAB: Commercial P/C Premiums Increase 7.7% in Q1 2024

May 20 2024 // Overall commercial property/casualty premiums increased slightly for all account sizes to 7.7% on average in the first quarter 2024.According to The Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers’ Q1 Market Survey, the 7.7%...

#20 For Small Commercial Businesses, Insurance Satisfaction Is a Matter of Trust

Sep 4 2024 // Trust impacts customer satisfaction, loyalty and brand advocacy more than other factors when small businesses choose a commercial insurance provider.J.D. Power’s 2024 U.S. Small Commercial Insurance Study found that...