All the headlines from our Pricing Trends Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 10 2022 // Directors and officers liability pricing fell 14.7% in the third quarter, according to a recent survey.Aon’s Financial Services Group’s Q3 2022 pricing index for the quarter ending on September 30 decreased to...
Nov 9 2022 // Aviva plans “regular and sustainable” investor payouts, its CEO said on Wednesday, as the British insurer reiterated plans for a share buyback program alongside its 2022 results and posted a rise in nine-month...
Nov 8 2022 // The Florida insurance commissioner has approved a decrease in overall workers’ compensation rates for 2023, and he did not demand a sharper decrease from actuaries.The National Council on Compensation Insurance in...
Nov 7 2022 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready announced that businesses should see another rate decrease in workers’ compensation insurance beginning on January 1, 2023. The Oklahoma Insurance Department has approved...
Nov 7 2022 // Agency errors and omissions premiums have risen on average for three years in a row, according to Insurance Journal’s annual Agency E&O survey.Some 70.5% of respondents saw an increase in their agency E&O...
Nov 4 2022 // The North Carolina Rate Bureau is requesting an average 87.5% increase in insurance rates for mobile home fire policies over the next two years, and a 53.4% increase in casualty policies.The rate requests may seem large,...
Nov 3 2022 // Progressive’s Flo won’t reappear on TV screens in every state, but the insurer she pitches for is comfortable pursuing business growth, company leaders said yesterday.That means potentially using more...
Oct 28 2022 // Swiss Re reported a third-quarter loss of $442 million driven by claims tied to the damage from hurricane Ian, and signaled that renewal prices would jump next year.The Zurich-based reinsurer’s key unit saw $2.5...
Oct 27 2022 // Global insurance pricing continued to rise, although at a slower pace, during the third quarter, which saw commercial insurance premiums increase an average of 6%, down from 9% in Q2, according to Marsh’s Global...
Oct 25 2022 // It has been three weeks since Hurricane Ian struck Florida on Sept. 28, 2022. The storm took at least 119 lives and caused estimated insured losses ranging from $31 billion to $74 billion, with most estimates in the $60...
Oct 21 2022 // While the total impact of Hurricane Ian won’t be realized for some time, the effect on an “already stressed property market will be significant,” said John Q. Doyle, group president and COO of Marsh...
Oct 18 2022 // The Idaho Department of Insurance accepted a 11.5% reduction in rates, effective January 1, 2023. This follows the National Council on Compensation Insurance submission of its annual rate recommendation to the Idaho...
Oct 12 2022 // European reinsurers will miss their earnings targets in 2022 – for the sixth year in a row – which is pressuring the industry to raise rates and continue improving the quality of their portfolios, according to a...
Oct 11 2022 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon approved a significant rate hike for Louisiana Citizens residential property insurance policies, a move the insurance department blamed on rising costs of reinsurance.Donelon...
Oct 5 2022 // Indiana Department of Insurance Commissioner Amy L. Beard recently approved a decrease of 10.3% on average for Workers‘ Compensation rates recommended by the Indiana Compensation Rating Bureau (ICRB), effective...
Oct 3 2022 // A comparison of workers’ compensation direct premium written indicated an overall increase of approximately 10.1% for the first six months of 2022 compared to the first six months of 2021. Twenty of the Top 25...
Sep 30 2022 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California released its Quarterly Experience Report, which reflects an increase in written premium due to economic recovery from the pandemic.The report is an...
Sep 21 2022 // Bundling home and auto insurance may have hit a roadblock as consumers have started to break up policies largely due to increases in auto insurance premiums, according to J.D. Power.Overall satisfaction and retention rates...
Sep 20 2022 // The heightened perception of risk stemming from cyber attacks, the climate, pandemics and even inflation are just a few of the volatile factors fueling a demand-side need for more specialized coverage approaches, which...
Sep 20 2022 // Higher auto loss costs are here to stay, according to the leader of Allstate, who also said that his company will be pushing up auto insurance prices higher, and at a faster pace, for the balance of the year.Speaking at...