All the headlines from our Pricing Trends Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 28 2001 // Conning Corporation, a provider of asset management services to insurance companies and institutional investors based in Hartford, Conn., has predicted an increase in auto insurance premiums next year, reversing a trend in...
Apr 21 2001 // According to California Department of Insurance (CDI) filings, Farmers Insurance and 21st Century Insurance have requested premium hikes averaging 6.9 percent for their property policies. Farmers Insurance and 21st Century...
Mar 26 2001 // Allstate Insurance, which insures 2.1 million drivers in California, plans to raise premiums by 6.9 percent-a move that could force other companies to do the same. The increase is scheduled to take effect May 18. Rate...
Mar 16 2001 // A recent study released by Swiss Re, confirms that insured catastrophe losses for 2000 totaled $10.6 billion, falling significantly below those in 1999, which reached $32.9 billion.The survey also concluded that p/c...
Feb 26 2001 // Home insurance premiums are expected to increase by as much as 30 percent this year as building costs push up underwriting losses from weather-related claims. Royal and Sun Alliance, with a 28 percent market share in...
Feb 26 2001 // The long-awaited hardening of reinsurance rates may finally be occurring, as companies reassess their capacity commitments and take a more critical look at their risk exposures, particularly concerning natural...
Feb 19 2001 // The long awaited hardening of reinsurance rates may finally be occurring, as companies reassess their capacity commitments and take a more critical look at their risk exposures, particularly concerning natural...
Feb 16 2001 // Hurricane forecaster William Gray predicted Wednesday during the Windstorm Insurance Conference in Orlando, that the nation’s East Coast, particularly Florida, was at the beginning of a period of more frequent...
Feb 13 2001 // French reinsurer SCOR S.A. has reported a 14.5 percent increase in premium volume to 3.5 billion euros ($3.30 billion) in 2000. Prior to publication of its complete annual results in March, the Paris-based group announced...
Feb 12 2001 // Through its fourth quarter 2000 Commercial Insurance Market Index, The Council reported commercial property/casualty premium rates across all lines of the business and group medical coverage rose significantly over the...
Feb 7 2001 // France’s AGF, 51 percent of which is owned by Germany’s Allianz, posted strong growth in premium income in all sectors for the year 2000.Overall premium income rose 17.8 percent in 2000 to €15.74 billion...
Dec 8 2000 // Workers’ comp premiums will be reduced by an overall 2.3 percent next year, New Jersey Banking and Insurance Commissioner Karen L. Suter announced yesterday.At the same time, weekly benefits to injured workers for...
Dec 5 2000 // Automobile insurance rates are expected to rise by 1.5 percent this year, the first increase in three years. Additional increases of 2 percent to 4 percent are likely in 2001. Among the factors driving rates upward are...
Dec 4 2000 // Auto insurance giants Allstate and Progressive will raise liability premiums for sport utility vehicles, pickup trucks and big vans because of evidence they cause more damage in accidents. Until now, drivers with similar...
Nov 30 2000 // Both the Missouri Department of Insurance and a key industry group are recommending that several years of workers compensation rate reductions continue into 2001.“We have been prepared for this long cycle of rate...
Nov 27 2000 // German insurance giant Allianz AG announced that premium income for the first 9 months of the year reached a record €50.9 billion ($42.675 billion) a 15.5 percent rise over 1999. Property and casualty operations...
Nov 27 2000 // The building boom across much of the country resulting from nearly 10 years of economic expansion has also resulted in a business boom for artisan contractors. As individuals in some of the country’s hottest markets...
Nov 22 2000 // Missouri’s projected rate of uninsured passenger vehicles dropped by 18 percent—or 63,000 autos—during 1999, reaching the lowest levels since the state enacted its current mandatory insurance law in 1987,...
Nov 13 2000 // It’s finally here! Strike up the band, pass out the cigars, the hard market has arrived! We still have availability of product and our renewals are up at least 10 percent. Workers’ comp premiums are up an...
Oct 30 2000 // On Oct. 20, Insurance Commissioner Harry Low took a much-needed first step to improve the dire state of California’s workers’ comp market.Low approved the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of...