All the headlines from our Pricing Trends Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 20 2007 // Homeowners on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast face another insurance rate hike in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath.Mississippi insurance regulators this week approved a statewide rate increase of 29 percent for Allstate...
Apr 20 2007 // State Farm will reduce auto insurance rates an average of 6 percent in Illinois effective May 14, the company said in a statement this week.Premiums will dip by an average $40 a year statewide, though amounts will vary...
Apr 19 2007 // Workers’ compensation insurance is costing less for most Vermont employers since new rates became effective April 1.The Vermont Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration approved...
Apr 12 2007 // A new Mississippi insurance wind pool board on Tuesday approved a 142 percent increase for commercial premiums, a rate that’s significantly lower than it could have been because of $30 million from the federal...
Apr 9 2007 // Analyzing the economic rhymes and reasons of soft and hard market cycles in the insurance industry would make for a challenging university-level business course. Theories abound on why and when these cycles occur, but no...
Apr 9 2007 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California Governing Committee submitted a rate filing to the California Department of Insurance recommending a 11.3 percent decrease in advisory pure premium...
Apr 9 2007 // Analyzing the economic rhymes and reasons of soft and hard market cycles in the insurance industry would make for a challenging university-level business course. Theories abound on why and when these cycles occur, but no...
Mar 29 2007 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California Governing Committee has approved the filing of a 11.3 percent decrease in advisory pure premium rates, effective July 1, 2007 on new and renewal...
Mar 14 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance reported that on March 8, 2007, the Travis County District Court affirmed an earlier order by Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin requiring Allstate Texas Lloyds to reduce its...
Mar 7 2007 // The Illinois Division of Insurance has granted the Illinois FAIR Plan a rate change for Dwelling Property policies. The overall increase is 7.7 percent, effective March 1, 2007. The last increase in the FAIR Plan rate was...
Mar 5 2007 // Florida homeowners could see average property insurance savings ranging from around 10 percent in the Panhandle to more than half the cost of their policy in South Florida because of a new law, state insurance officials...
Feb 26 2007 // The Ohio Department of Insurance recently announced that the average rates for the state’s top 10 auto and homeowners insurers — which represent 72 percent of both markets — decreased 1.2 percent and 0.8...
Feb 26 2007 // Changing corporate governance practices and excess capital in the insurance market have made directors’ and officers’ liability premiums drop in recent years, and rate level erosion in almost every line of...
Feb 26 2007 // Virtually all industries respect and demand top line growth. Publicly traded companies, competing for capital, are required to demonstrate an ability to facilitate top line growth. In stark contrast to other industries,...
Feb 25 2007 // The Ohio Department of Insurance recently an-nounced that the average rates for the state’s top 10 auto and homeowners insurers — which represent 72 percent of both markets — decreased 1.2 percent and 0.8...
Feb 25 2007 // Changing corporate governance practices and excess capital in the insurance market have made directors’ and officers’ liability premiums drop in recent years, and rate level erosion in almost every line of...
Feb 25 2007 // Virtually all industries respect and demand top line growth. Publicly traded companies, competing for capital, are required to demonstrate an ability to facilitate top line growth. In stark contrast to other industries,...
Feb 25 2007 // 12 months ending Sept. 30, 2006, versus Sept. 30, 2005 (000 Omitted)DPW Change DWP DWP DWP $ DWP %Rank Company Name 9/30/2006 9/30/05 Change Change1 Lexington Insurance Co. $4,811,668 $3,836,214 $975,454 25.43%2 American...
Feb 15 2007 // The Ohio Department of Insurance recently announced that the average rates for the state’s top 10 auto and homeowners insurers – which represent 72 percent of both markets – decreased 1.2 percent and 0.8...
Feb 12 2007 // Despite slow-down, industry still anticipates underwriting profitsMost insurance industry analysts predict slower P/C premium growth for 2007, according to an Insurance Information Institute’s annual survey of Wall...