All the headlines from our Pricing Trends Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 20 2004 // Workers’ compensation premiums would increase an average of only 3.7 percent next year under a proposal issued by the Washington Department of Labor and Industries (L&I). The increase is the lowest in three...
Sep 17 2004 // New Jersey urban residents may see their car insurance premiums rise under a state proposal that would give insurance companies more freedom to hike rates.The state Department of Banking and Insurance is considering a plan...
Sep 14 2004 // Three years after it launched an initiative to level the playing field among employers in the construction industry, the Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) has seen a dramatic increase in the amount of unpaid...
Sep 9 2004 // Workers’ compensation premiums would increase an average of only 3.7 percent next year under a proposal issued by the Washington Department of Labor and Industries (L&I). The increase is the lowest in three...
Sep 6 2004 // The Associated Press reported New Mexico medical malpractice insurance premiums have increased an average 9.8 percent this year, according to R. Kevin Clinton, president of American Physicians Capital Inc. Last year, rates...
Sep 6 2004 // Insurance Services Office has lowered its rating on Yuma, Ariz.’s family home building codes, a move that could result in higher homeowners rates, according to the Associated Press. Yuma received a grade six grades...
Sep 2 2004 // Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry is urging state regulators to reject a proposed increase in workers’ compensation insurance rates, citing a new actuarial report that indicates a rate hike is not necessary.The report in...
Aug 31 2004 // The Associated Press reported that an insurance company that had threatened to stop offering medical malpractice coverage to doctors in West Virginia has been granted a 9.5 percent rate increase, according to Gov. Bob...
Aug 25 2004 // A national insurance organization has lowered its rating on Yuma, Arizona’s family home building codes, a move that could result in higher home insurance rates here.The Insurance Services Office reviewed the codes...
Aug 16 2004 // The high cost of medical care just got higher.R. Kevin Clinton, president of American Physicians Capital Inc., told leaders of the New Mexico Medical Society that medical malpractice insurance premiums have increased an...
Aug 9 2004 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced that workers’ compensation rate filings illustrate a downward trend, but still fall short of his pure premium rate advisory of minus 20.9 percent issued on...
Aug 5 2004 // Worker’s compensation insurers operating in Oklahoma want a significant increase in the premiums they charge for coverage, the Associated Press and The Oklahoman reported.An industry group representing the companies...
Jul 22 2004 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau will propose a 3.5 percent average increase in the advisory pure premium rates for policies incepting on or after Jan. 1, 2005, based on an analysis of loss and loss...
Jul 21 2004 // The commercial property/casualty insurance market showed signs of continued softening in the second quarter of 2004, with one-third of the small accounts and more than half the medium and large accounts experiencing...
Jul 20 2004 // West Virginians paid more for auto insurance in 2001 than people in all but 15 other states, according to statistics from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, the Associated Press and the Charleston Gazette...
Jul 19 2004 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio announced that the majority of New York State’s 50,000 physicians will see a 7 percent rate increase in their medical malpractice insurance premiums for the...
Jul 19 2004 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi released a statutorily mandated report on the State Compensation Insurance Fund’s (SCIF’s) potential to reduce workers’ comp rates based on his review of...
Jul 15 2004 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio today rejected the filing submitted by the New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board (CIRB) that sought an overall increase of 29.3 percent in workers’...
Jul 15 2004 // In the continuing march toward a soft market, most commercial insurance buyers renewed their policies at the same or lower premiums last quarter, according to a survey of corporate risk managers.Data from the survey shows...
Jul 14 2004 // For the second consecutive year, ICBC will not be increasing basic automobile insurance rates, the corporation announced. ICBC’s submission to the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC), which sets basic...