All the headlines from our Pricing Trends Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 22 2021 // Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Mark Afable has approved an overall 5.44 percent decrease in worker’s compensation insurance rates, effective Oct. 1, 2021.This is the sixth straight year of rate decreases in...
Jul 20 2021 // Surplus lines premium exceeded $24 billion and premium bearing transactions exceeded 2.6 million through the first six months of 2021, according to the 2021 Midyear Report of the U.S. Surplus Lines Service and Stamping...
Jul 16 2021 // Robust global economic recovery, higher risk awareness and the strongest rate hardening for 20 years in non-life insurance commercial lines will combine to push premiums 10% above pre-COVID-19-crisis levels this year,...
Jul 15 2021 // The Citizens Property Insurance Corporation’s Board of Governors approved rate adjustments that will raise average premiums by an additional 2.3% in February 2022.The board for the state-backed insurer unanimously...
Jul 2 2021 // Pacific Gas & Electric asked regulators Wednesday to grant a $3.6 billion rate hike to help it pay for hardening its power systems to prevent deadly wildfires.The nation’s largest electric utility requested the...
Jun 21 2021 // The expectation that hundreds of so-called zombie companies will fail over the next few years and drag on the economy is among the major concerns prompting insurers to reduce risk and charge higher premiums, a trend likely...
Jun 17 2021 // Researchers report increasing evidence is that motor vehicle crash rates rise when states legalize recreational use and retail sales of marijuana, although what effects marijuana by itself has on drivers remains...
Jun 15 2021 // Severe weather trends and an increase in claims are impacting the price of homeowners insurance in Missouri, regulators say.A recent report issued by the Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance shows that homeowners...
Jun 8 2021 // The expectation that hundreds of so-called zombie companies will fail over the next few years and drag on the economy is among the major concerns prompting insurers to reduce risk and charge higher premiums, a trend likely...
May 28 2021 // Total direct written premium in the California workers’ compensation system fell by 11.4% in 2020, dropping to an eight-year low driven by the ongoing decline in insurers’ average charged rates and relatively...
May 27 2021 // U.S. insurers offering cyber coverage have been implementing significant pricing and underwriting actions in 2021 in response to a spike in cyber claims, according to Fitch Ratings.Fitch predicts that immediate improvement...
May 19 2021 // This wrap-up of international People Moves details recent appointments at Ed Broking, Price Forbes, NFP, Guy Carpenter & Co., and Specialist Risk Group (SRG).A summary of these new hires follows here. Ed, the...
May 17 2021 // As insurance markets harden across most lines, many in the industry are looking at the impact of social inflation: Increased litigation, broader contract interpretations and larger jury and settlement awards are driving up...
May 13 2021 // Written premium for 2020 was 13% below the previous year, and was at the lowest since 2012, a new report out on Thursday shows.The Workers’ Compensation Rating Bureau of California Quarterly Experience Report, which...
May 5 2021 // Global commercial insurance pricing continued its double-digit growth in the 2021 first quarter, but the rate of increase dipped for the first time since late 2017, Marsh found in its latest market index...
May 3 2021 // The environment for many of the U.S. property/casualty (P/C) insurers lines remains competitive despite the need for rate increases for key commercial lines of coverage such as property catastrophe, commercial automobile,...
May 3 2021 // Medical liability insurance premiums have begun an upward trend after holding more or less steady during the past decade, according to a new analysis from the American Medical Association (AMA). In 2020, during the height...
Apr 29 2021 // The Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) reported that the state has seen record-breaking premiums in the first quarter of 2021, with a total of $2 billion in premium representing a 20.1% increase over the same...
Apr 29 2021 // Record premiums haven’t been enough to reverse U.S. directors and officers (D&O) insurers’ underwriting losses, and the sector will still lose money in the near term as a result, Fitch Ratings said.Premium...
Apr 26 2021 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has approved the FAIR Plan’s rate changes. The changes resulted in overall statewide average rate increases for homeowners, dwelling, condominium and renters policies.On Jan....