All the headlines from our Pricing Trends Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 4 2007 // The rate of nonfatal occupational injury and illnesses in Wyoming is on the decline, according to a Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses conducted by the Wyoming Department of Employment, Research and Planning,...
Nov 4 2007 // California’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau has recommended that pure premium rates in the state be increased to 5.2 percent, instead of the 4.2 percent recommended earlier in September.In...
Nov 4 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner along with officials from California State Automobile Association Inter-Insurance Bureau (CSAA-IIB, or AAA of Northern California) in Sacramento and San Francisco announced...
Nov 4 2007 // The market for management liability coverages is soft. Premiums are down, which means revenues are down. Yet there still are tremendous opportunities for proactive agents and brokers to sell the coverages, according to...
Nov 4 2007 // The countrywide prospective return on equity for the homeowners line of insurance for 2007 is 7.0 percent, up from 5.4 percent in 2006, according to an analysis by Aon Re Global, a unit of Aon Corp. The year-over-year...
Oct 31 2007 // Florida insurance regulators approved the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s amended rate filing for workers’ compensation insurance rates. On Oct. 22, Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty ordered...
Oct 30 2007 // Kansas could become the ninth state to allow a modernized rating system for personal lines of insurance. A state task force studying rate modernization has issued a recommendation proposed by the National Association of...
Oct 27 2007 // Two administrative law judges in Texas on Oct. 5 rejected State Farm’s plan to increase homeowner insurance rates, calling the hike too excessive.State Farm Lloyds Inc. had appealed to the State Office of...
Oct 27 2007 // According to Gail Sheehy, growth demands a temporary surrender of security. Although it is unlikely she was speaking of property and casualty insurance industry marketshare when she made this comment, it seems to me that...
Oct 24 2007 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty disapproved the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s latest rate filing for workers’ compensation insurance rates, due to become effective next year.McCarty...
Oct 24 2007 // The countrywide prospective return on equity for the homeowners line of insurance for 2007 is 7.0 percent, up from 5.4 percent in 2006, according to an analysis by Aon Re Global, a unit of Aon Corp. The year-over-year...
Oct 24 2007 // The board that oversees a subsidized health-insurance plan for nearly 800 small businesses in Montana indicated it will try to hold down premium increases by cutting plan benefits.Jim Edwards, a member of the Insure...
Oct 22 2007 // California’s Workers’ Comensation Insurance Rating Bureau has recommended that pure premium rates be increased to 5.2 percent, instead of the 4.2 percent recommended earlier in September.In September, WCIRB...
Oct 22 2007 // Small businesses with state-subsidized health insurance through the Insure Montana program face double-digit race increases next year, officials said.Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana, the company that sells and...
Oct 19 2007 // The rate of nonfatal occupational injury and illnesses in Wyoming is on the decline, according to a Survey of Occupational INjuries and Illnesses conducted by the Wyoming Department of Employment, Research and Planning,...
Oct 17 2007 // On Oct. 15, Travis County District Judge Margaret Cooper ruled in favor of Allstate Texas Lloyd’s in the company’s quest to preserve an already-implemented homeowners rate increase.Cooper granted the...
Oct 16 2007 // Florida officials have subpoenaed Allstate Insurance and its subsidiaries to get the insurer to explain why it is not lowering homeowners insurance rates in the state and to defend its dealings with the industry’s...
Oct 9 2007 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation disapproved a rate increase filing submitted by United Services Automobile Association, USAA Casualty Insurance Co. and USAA General Indemnity Co.As a result of the disapproval,...
Oct 9 2007 // A lawsuit against a major reinsurance broker for alleged antitrust activity in Connecticut is being used to raise broader questions about the largely unregulated reinsurance business.Connecticut Attorney General Richard...
Oct 8 2007 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance recently disapproved a request made by the National Council on Compensation Insurance to increase loss costs statewide by 23.7 percent.NCCI State Relations Executive, Amy Quinn,...