All the headlines from our Pricing Trends Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 11 2008 // Marsh’s London office has issued a new “global benchmarking report,” which examines the use of captive insurance companies by today’s global firms. The report -“Next Generation Captives...
Apr 11 2008 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner, Mike Chaney, approved an average 11 percent rate reduction request filed by the Mississippi Windstorm Underwriting Association.The reductions will vary according to geographic zones and...
Apr 9 2008 // The U.S. commercial lines property/casualty insurance “soft” pricing cycle will likely mean outlooks on some commercial lines insurers will be revised to negative in the second half of 2008, according to...
Apr 7 2008 // It starts with the housing market. Then it seeps into construction, typically residential followed by commercial. Then it travels to manufacturing, then retail, then hospitality. It differs by region. It might be worse in...
Apr 7 2008 // When it comes to dealing with a recession, independent agents in Michigan carry the dubious distinction of having more experience than their counterparts in other Midwest states.Michigan has been knee deep in a recession...
Apr 7 2008 // It starts with the housing market. Then it seeps into construction, typically residential followed by commercial. Then it travels to manufacturing, then retail, then hospitality. It differs by region. It might be worse in...
Apr 7 2008 // The following interview with Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Information Institute, took place with Insurance Journal‘s Andy Simpson in mid-February.How would a recession affect Main Street...
Mar 31 2008 // Haeaii’s biggest health insurer wants to hike health insurance premiums by more than 12 percent next year, the biggest increase in nearly two decades.The proposed rate hikes would affect 144,000 members and...
Mar 21 2008 // Wilmington, DE – March 2008 – The Target Markets Program Administrators Association announced today that the Association’s Strategic Partner Benfield Inc. will be collecting data from TMPAA Program...
Mar 21 2008 // The failures of the Sea Launch rocket carrying the NSS-8 satellite, the Proton carrying JCSat 11 and the recent failure of the Proton rocket carrying the AMC-14 satellite, could cause space insurers to increase premiums by...
Mar 20 2008 // When Bobbie Cameron became pregnant with her third child, she reluctantly chose a new doctor to oversee her care. Her longtime physician had dropped out of the birthing business because of soaring malpractice insurance...
Mar 18 2008 // Stating it’s the first rate change in two years for its “Texas Family Home Policy,” Farmers Insurance Group, through Texas Farmers Insurance Company, filed a rate increase for the policy with the Texas...
Mar 10 2008 // The members of the California Insurance Wholesalers Association (CIWA) play a vital role in the state’s insurance market. To find out how wholesalers are faring in California’s increasingly soft market,...
Mar 10 2008 // Car insurance rates for Colorado drivers on average have dropped 35 percent since the state changed its auto insurance system nearly five years ago, according to an independent study released by Gov. Bill Ritter’s...
Mar 7 2008 // Aon’s recently published “Aerospace Insurance Market Review 2007” highlights the year’s “soft market driven by high capacity and historically low claims.”Aon determined that the...
Mar 4 2008 // The North Carolina Insurance Commissioner received the annual auto insurance rate filing from the North Carolina Rate Bureau, according to Insurance Commissioner Jim Long.The Bureau, which represents the auto insurance...
Mar 4 2008 // Florida-based Foremost Insurance Group of companies filed a 72.9 percent increase on mobile homeowners’ insurance rates, according to the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation.The group’s companies, including...
Mar 3 2008 // Bloomington, Ill.-based State Farm Insurance said recently that many drivers in Nebraska should see lower car insurance rates because there have been fewer accidents. State Farm insurance says its auto insurance rates in...
Feb 28 2008 // Directors’ and officers’ liability insurance costs for financial institutions significantly increased in the fourth quarter of 2007, according to a D&O pricing index released by Aon Corp.Authored by Aon...
Feb 27 2008 // Aon’s “Airline Insurance Market Review of 2007” cites the “high level of hull and liability claims, at US$1.7 billion, coupled with the lowest amount of lead hull and liability premium since 2000...