All the headlines from our Pricing Trends Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 11 2005 // Teaming up to challenge the near doubling of medical malpractice insurance premiums by GE Medical Protective, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut State Medical Society and the Connecticut Trial...
Jan 11 2005 // Oklahoma vehicle owners could combat an April 1 increase in auto insurance rates if a bill proposed by Rep. Jerry Shoemake (D-Morris) passes the Oklahoma Legislature.Shoemake has filed a petition to override a law,...
Jan 5 2005 // Thirteen Florida insurance companies have requested 11 to 60 percent premium rate increases from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR). Regulators will be reviewing the requests this month and will either...
Jan 3 2005 // Each year the Insurance Information Institute invites a panel of Wall Street stock analysts and industry professionals to review the prospects for the industry in the current and coming year. This year, III invited experts...
Dec 30 2004 // The New York State Insurance Department has scheduled a public hearing for Friday, Jan. 7, 2005 to consider the application of the New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board for a workers’ compensation insurance...
Dec 29 2004 // The Illinois Division of Insurance has approved a 0.1% increase in the advisory rate for workers’ compensation insurance in Illinois for 2005—that’s one-tenth of 1 percent. For comparison’s sake, the...
Dec 28 2004 // MetLife Auto and Home Insurance is the latest company in Florida to request permission to raise its rates, citing non-hurricane-related losses and asking to increase policyholder’s premiums by an average of 17...
Dec 20 2004 // Homeowners who buy insurance from independent insurance agents in Texas should be seeing lower premiums and better coverages, according to a survey conducted by the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas of its 1,800-member...
Dec 20 2004 // Independent agents and brokers in New York see premium rates continuing to increase and coverage choices failing to improve for most lines of property casualty insurance in the state despite industry and press reports to...
Dec 20 2004 // Florida homeowners can expect an 8.3 percent statewide increase in the cost of homeowner’s insurance according to Bob Lotane, spokesman for the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation. He said worst hit areas will...
Dec 17 2004 // Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Friday announced that Michigan’s business climate will benefit from an expected drop in the Workers’ Compensation insurance rates by an average 11.2 percent in 2005. Granholm...
Dec 17 2004 // South Carolina’s new flex-rating law for personal lines property insurance is already helping to bring lower premiums to many homeowners, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI).State...
Dec 16 2004 // Almost a million motorists in the volunteer state will soon pay less for their car insurance. State Farm has announced they it will lower insurance rates for drivers in Tennessee by an average of 2 percent in 2005. Overall...
Dec 10 2004 // Each year the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.) invites a panel of Wall Street stock analysts and industry professionals to review the prospects for the industry in the current and coming year. The survey reveals...
Dec 9 2004 // Independent agents and brokers in New York see premium rates continuing to increase and coverage choices failing to improve for most lines of property casualty insurance in the state despite industry and press reports to...
Dec 7 2004 // Tillinghast’s Directors & Officers (D&O) liability insurance premium index dropped 10 percent from 2003 to 2004, the first decline since 1999, according to the 2004 Directors & Officers Liability...
Dec 6 2004 // According to MarketScout, the November composite rate increase for property and casualty insurance remained at 2%.Richard Kerr, chairman and CEO of MarketScout (www.marketscout.com) commented, “We expect the market...
Dec 6 2004 // State Farm Florida Insurance Co. has requested permission from the State Insurance Commission to increase rates 5 percent on all its homeowner and condominium policies due to what it calls, the higher costs of doing...
Dec 6 2004 // California Insurance Comm-issioner John Garamendi called for a 2.2 percent reduction in pure premium rates for workers’ compensation insurance in a Nov. 17 conference call to the media.“My current advice to the...
Dec 3 2004 // Homeowners who buy insurance from independent insurance agents in Texas should be seeing lower premiums and better coverages, according to the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas. The claim is based on results of a...