All the headlines from our Pricing Trends Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 11 2000 // According to figures released by the Surplus Line Association of Arizona, written surplus line premium volume in the state totaled $106.9 million in 1999, compared with $90.2 million in 1998–an increase of 18.5...
May 1 2000 // Standard & Poor’s (S&P) took rating actions on three Irvine-based stock companies. The “BBpi” financial strength rating on Irvine-based Developers Insurance Company (DICO) was affirmed by...
Apr 27 2000 // As expected, the European Central Bank (ECB) raised interest rates on the Euro today, but only by what most analysts considered a paltry 25 basis points. The move, which raised the effective rate to 3.75 percent,...
Apr 4 2000 // Excess capacity, intense competition, inadequate premium rates and a high level of claims resulted in a very poor earnings performance in the New Zealand nonlife insurance market in 1999. So said Ian Thompson, Standard...
Feb 29 2000 // The distinct possibility that damage awards arising from automobile accident claims will substantially increase in the U.K. has prompted the Association of British Insurers (ABI) to warn of possible big increases in...