All the headlines from our Pricing Trends Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 16 2017 // Catastrophe losses from the recent U.S. hurricanes and Mexican earthquakes will lead to price rises on London market insurers’ loss-affected lines and could also affect wider market pricing trends, according to Fitch...
Oct 16 2017 // The Idaho Department of Insurance has received a proposal from the National Council on Compensation Insurance for an overall rate drop of 5.8 percent percent to workers’ compensation insurance. The decrease is to...
Oct 2 2017 // The Idaho Department of Insurance has received a proposal from the National Council on Compensation Insurance for an overall rate drop of 5.8 percent percent to workers’ compensation insurance.The decrease is to...
Oct 2 2017 // New Hampshire employers could pay less for their workers’ comp insurance next year because of a filing that lowers rates and loss cost factors insurers use to develop prices. This move would mark the sixth year in a...
Oct 2 2017 // Workers’ compensation insurers reported a modest increase in direct written premiums — a 1.0 percent increase — during the first six months of 2017 versus the same period in 2016.Workers’...
Oct 2 2017 // Damage left by Hurricanes Irma and Harvey will lead to a hardened property market and pricing correction, at least in the short-term according to a new KPMG survey.In related analysis, a new Morgan Stanley report...
Sep 28 2017 // The top three challenges facing London market companies are the soft market, Brexit and regulatory compliance, according to a survey of International Underwriting Association (IUA) members.In an online questionnaire,...
Sep 26 2017 // Insurance rates aren’t expected to go up in Ogden neighborhood where a wildfire destroyed three homes and caused the evacuations of hundreds.But authorities are warning the residents to be on high alert for...
Sep 18 2017 // Damage left by Hurricanes Irma and Harvey will lead to a hardened property market and pricing correction, at least in the short-term according to a new KPMG survey.In related analysis, a new Morgan Stanley report...
Sep 18 2017 // Just under a year since Florida workers’ compensation rates shot up by 14.5 percent, Florida businesses may get some relief in their workers’ comp premiums.The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI)...
Sep 18 2017 // Direct premium written (DPW) for property/casualty insurance companies continues to increase, albeit gradually. At year-end 2016, approximately $606 billion of DPW was reported, a record high for the industry. For 2016,...
Sep 15 2017 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau has completed its report on statewide workers’ comp insurer loss and premium experience through June 30.The major findings of the report include: California...
Sep 12 2017 // New Hampshire employers could pay less for their workers’ compensation insurance next year because of a filing that lowers the rates and loss cost factors insurers use to develop prices. This move would mark the...
Sep 5 2017 // Global reinsurance rates are likely to fall by up to 7.5 percent at Jan 2018 renewals due to strong competition, despite the impact of Hurricane Harvey, ratings agencies said on Tuesday.Reinsurers, which help insurers...
Aug 31 2017 // Just under a year since Florida workers’ compensation rates shot up by 14.5 percent, Florida businesses may get some relief in their workers’ comp premiums.The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI)...
Aug 21 2017 // QBE reported a healthy profit hike during first half of 2017, despite heightened claims activity in its Emerging Markets’ division, which reported a combined ratio of 110.8 percent. This poor performance has led to...
Aug 18 2017 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau has submitted its Jan. 1, 2018 pure premium rate filing to the California Department of Insurance proposing advisory pure premium rates that average $2.01 per $100 of...
Aug 16 2017 // Global insurance renewal rates fell for the 17th consecutive quarter in the second quarter of 2017, according to Marsh’s Q2 2017 Global Insurance Market Index.Despite the continuing decline, Q2 marks the sixth...
Aug 16 2017 // Health insurance premiums for many customers on the Obamacare individual insurance markets would be 20 percent higher in 2018 if U.S. President Donald Trump follows through on a threat to stop billions of dollars of...
Aug 11 2017 // When Micah Carr-Hill wanted to insure Chief, the Labrador that helps with his son’s autism therapy, he found an ally in Munich Re, the world’s biggest reinsurer.The German company had just teamed up with a U.K....