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Ping An Profit Rises 32% as Higher Premiums Offset Stock Market Slump

Oct 28 2015 // Ping An Insurance (Group) Co., China’s second-largest insurer, said third-quarter profit rose 32 percent as higher premium income and banking revenue helped offset the impact of a stock market rout on investment...

Louisiana Workers’ Comp Insurance Rates Set to Decline Again

Oct 26 2015 // Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon reports that Louisiana businesses are expected to see a decrease in their workers’ compensation rates in 2016.The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) recently...

Qatar Insurance Posts 20% Premium Rise for 1st 9 Months of 2015

Oct 26 2015 // Qatar Insurance Company (QIC), the parent company of Qatar Re and Antares, has announced that for the first nine months of 2015 its gross written premiums increased by 20 percent from $1.23 billion to $1.48 billion.It also...

California Commissioner Approves Reduced 2016 Pure Premium Rate Filing

Oct 20 2015 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones approved workers’ compensation rates for 2016 that are 2 percent below the average approved in July.The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau submitted its...

Reinsurers See Further Price Declines for 2016 in Wake of Mergers

Oct 19 2015 // The world’s largest reinsurers are anticipating even bigger price declines when policies are renewed in 2016 than envisaged a month ago as a flurry of takeovers in the industry fails to absorb some of the excess...

E. Baton Rouge Refuses to Hike Employee Insurance Premiums

Oct 16 2015 // East Baton Rouge, La., city-parish government employees will not see an increase in their health insurance premiums.The Metro Council on Oct. 14 refused to raise health insurance premiums for city employees. The decision...

Idaho Workers’ Comp Rates to Increase Slightly For 2016

Oct 7 2015 // The Idaho Department of Insurance has received a proposal for an overall rate increase of 0.2 percent to workers’ compensation insurance for 2016 by the National Council on Compensation Insurance. NCCI collects...

Endeavour Appoints Price to Drive Growth of U.S. & Canadian Specialist Business

Oct 2 2015 // London-based Endeavour Insurance Services* has appointed David Price as divisional director to drive further growth of the company’s specialist business across its U.S. and Canadian accounts.Price’s role will...

Workers’ Compensation Premiums Up 5.3% in First Half of 2015: Demotech

Sep 25 2015 // Workers’ compensation insurers reported a 5.3 percent increase in direct written premiums during the first six months of 2015 versus the same period in 2014, according to actuarial firm Demotech’s review of...

Washington Labor Department Seeks 2% Workers’ Comp Rate Hike

Sep 24 2015 // The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries is proposing an average 2 percent rate workers’ compensation increase for 2016.Each fall L&I sets workers’ comp rates for the following year....

Mass. Senate Panel to Examine Recent Hikes in Home Insurance Rates

Sep 21 2015 // A Massachusetts Senate panel is examining recent hikes in homeowner insurance rates in Massachusetts. The Senate Post Audit and Oversight Committee has called insurance company officials and state regulators to testify at...

Texas Surplus Line Stamping Fee Rate to Increase Jan. 1

Sep 21 2015 // The surplus lines stamping fee rate in Texas will increase next year to 0.15 percent of the gross premium amount of surplus lines insurance policies, the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLSOT) reported.The...

New York Fears Audit of Insurer in Albany Probe Could Trigger Insolvency, Rate Hikes

Sep 21 2015 // New York doctors, some of whom already pay 10 times more for malpractice insurance than physicians in San Francisco, may see their rates soar thanks to a state audit beginning this month.Physicians’ Reciprocal...

Workers’ Comp Premiums Increase By 5.3% in First Half of 2015

Sep 21 2015 // Demotech’s review of second quarter 2015 data, as recently reported by insurers to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, shows that workers’ compensation insurers reported a 5.3 percent increase...

Commercial Insurance Prices Up But Barely: Survey

Sep 21 2015 // Commercial insurance prices increased in aggregate at a modest pace (one percent) during the second quarter of 2015, continuing a trend of ever smaller increases.That’s according to the latest Commercial Lines...

Commercial Insurance Prices Up But Barely: Survey

Sep 15 2015 // Commercial insurance prices increased in aggregate at a modest pace (one percent) during the second quarter of 2015, continuing a trend of ever smaller increases.That’s according to the latest Commercial Lines...

The Hard Market That Wasn’t

Sep 7 2015 // For the U.S., property/casualty industry recent events have mimicked the boxing idiom one, two punch. P/C industry professionals haven’t seen a combination of an underwriting cycle and an investment environment quite...

Stamping Offices Report Moderate Growth in U.S. Premium

Sep 7 2015 // Collectively, the 14 U.S. surplus lines stamping offices have reported moderate growth in surplus line premiums during the first half of 2015.Approximately 60 percent of all surplus lines insurance is processed by stamping...

Insurers Look to Cyber, M&A Coverage as Prices Decline: Marsh

Sep 7 2015 // Commercial insurance rates continued their global decline in the second quarter of 2015, a trend driven by an abundance of global capacity and a lack of large insured loss activity, Marsh said in its latest Global...

R.I. AG Sues Health Insurance Commissioner Over 10% Blue Cross Rate Hike

Sep 2 2015 // Rhode Island’s attorney general has sued the state’s health insurance commissioner for allowing Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island to hike premiums for some residents 10 percent.Attorney General Peter...