All the headlines from our Pricing Trends Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 16 2009 // Southern California home sales rose for the 11th consecutive month in May as sales of $500,000-plus homes started to come back, according to the real-estate research company MDA Dataquick.The median price paid increased...
Sep 14 2009 // A new survey by Willis concludes that “the commercial sector continues to resist the sharp rate increases for Directors & Officers insurance seen in the financial institutions sector, with the average premium...
Sep 14 2009 // Insurance rates are going up for many Alabama homeowners.Officials with three of the four companies that insure the most homes in Alabama say that they are raising rates. The company that sells the most homeowners...
Sep 14 2009 // Policyholders of Louisiana’s state-backed property insurance company will see an average statewide rate increase of about 10 percent next year, under a proposal preliminarily approved by the firm’s board on...
Sep 14 2009 // Homeowner insurance premiums in Arkansas are expected to rise this year by an average of 10 percent as the industry works to rebound from 2008’s dual blows of foul weather and nasty financial markets.The Arkansas...
Sep 9 2009 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes has laid out what she sees as the “fair” range of auto insurance premium increases for those drivers insured through the state’s residual market.In a...
Sep 7 2009 // As I write this article, the unemployment rate in the United States was reported to be 9.4 percent as of the end of July. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was reported to shrink by 1 percent in the second quarter of 2009....
Sep 7 2009 // Prices for workers’ compensation insurance in the United States declined in 2008 and, in general, that trend is likely to continue in throughout 2009, according to the National Council on Compensation Insurance...
Aug 26 2009 // According to figures released by Marsh “insurance premium rate reductions slowed for property and casualty business across Europe, the Middle East and Africa in the first half of 2009.”Marsh also concluded that...
Aug 26 2009 // Flood insurance premiums and deductibles are increasing by about 8 percent for thousands of homeowners across South Carolina.The National Flood Insurance Program is raising monthly premiums and doubling deductibles...
Aug 26 2009 // Transportation insurance rate decreases seem to be moderating and are down on average between 1 percent to 10 percent, according to a recent industry survey on availability and rate trends in the transportation insurance...
Aug 25 2009 // State Farm is looking to raise coastal homeowners insurance rates in Mississippi an average 45 percent but the state regulator isn’t very receptive to the idea.“I am not going to approve the present...
Aug 24 2009 // The Iowa Insurance Division reported that the National Council on Compensation Insurance has made a rate filing which affects the premium rates for workers’ compensation insurance.The rate filing proposes an overall...
Aug 20 2009 // Nationally, family premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance increased 119 percent between 1999 and 2008, and could increase another 94 percent to an average $23,842 per family by 2020 if cost growth continues on...
Aug 17 2009 // The governing board of Louisiana’s state-backed property insurance firm on Aug. 13 approved a reduction in a fee imposed on policyholders, money that goes to pay off debt incurred because of Hurricane Katrina...
Aug 17 2009 // Roy H. Williams is an author and marketing consultant. He is known for his Wizard of Ads trilogy. He founded the Wizard Academy Institute. Although he is credited with saying “Consequently, a young business often...
Aug 13 2009 // The WCIRB will submit a filing to the California Department of Insurance (CDI) recommending an approximate 22.8 percent increase in pure premium rates (or “claims cost benchmark”) effective Jan. 1, 2010. The...
Aug 13 2009 // The chief executive of Louisiana’s state-backed property insurance company is seeking a 9.2 percent average rate increase for 2010, though he said some policyholders will probably see their rates decrease.John...
Aug 12 2009 // The Virginia State Corporation Commission will consider a request to raise workers’ compensation premiums at a meeting in October.The National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc. (NCCI), a rate service...
Aug 6 2009 // Beacon Marketing, Inc. – “Helping to guide your prospecting needs to new destinations”Beacon is coming up on their 2nd year with helping agents across the country write new business and they have been...