All the headlines from our Pricing Trends Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Feb 20 2008 // In a bulletin released in advance of Marsh’s National Oil Companies Conference to be held next week, the broker warned that oil companies run the risk of being under insured as world oil prices reach record...
Feb 20 2008 // Indiana doctors and hospitals will catch a break on the rates they pay to support a malpractice payout fund starting next month. But the deal probably won’t translate into lower patient bills.Patient’s...
Feb 19 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 today by Gov. Bill...
Feb 1 2008 // For excess and surplus lines brokers, identifying available insurance markets not sought by the standard market may be the key to surviving and thriving in the soft market.The answer to growth in a soft market is simple,...
Jan 30 2008 // The Chubb Corp. reported that net income in the fourth quarter of 2007 was $650 million or $1.68 per share, compared to $654 million or $1.56 per share in the fourth quarter of 2006.Operating income increased to $620...
Jan 30 2008 // The state’s new insurance commissioner says Mississippi Gulf Coast residents can expect an insurance rate increase this year.Commissioner Mike Chaney spoke Monday at the opening of the Insurance Department’s...
Jan 29 2008 // The Hanover Insurance Group Inc. in Worcester, Mass. reported a rise in earnings for the fourth quarter and last year overall while its chief executive officer expressed confidence the company has “momentum leading...
Jan 27 2008 // Crime rates dropped for the first time in two years, according to a newly released report of the most recent data collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Nationwide, violent crime fell 1.8 percent and property...
Jan 27 2008 // In the largest survey of its kind, fewer than half of California’s 10,000 business insurance agents see California’s business economy improving, either for themselves or for their clients, in 2008.The study...
Jan 27 2008 // Washington’s largest writer of medical malpractice coverage for physicians and surgeons has reduced premiums for 2008 by 12.5 percent, following what appears to be a record-setting year of profits for the company in...
Jan 18 2008 // In the largest survey of its kind, fewer than half of California’s 10,000 business insurance agents see California’s business economy improving – either for themselves or for their clients – in...
Jan 18 2008 // In its latest energy review, Willis warns that “sharp increases in the price of oil, steel, building materials and contractor day rates have resulted in significantly increased exposures to energy...