All the headlines from our Pricing Trends Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 6 2014 // A Missouri consumer group announced that it has sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the latest effort to obtain information used to justify the rates consumers will pay for insurance on the federally...
Oct 6 2014 // Ohio employers will receive another $1 billion rebate and workers will benefit from a major new investment in worker safety research and training, according to the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC).The...
Oct 6 2014 // Two insurance rating entities see slowing rate increases for the surplus lines segment in the coming months as competition grows.Moody’s Investors Service said that the U.S. excess and surplus lines sector is...
Oct 3 2014 // The New Jersey Assembly passed a measure that would make reverse rate evasion an insurance fraud and provide for civil and criminal penalties. The bill, A 2281, passed the state’s Assembly on Monday and is pending in...
Sep 23 2014 // Two insurance rating entities see slowing rate increases for the surplus lines segment in the coming months as competition grows.Moody’s Investors Service said that the U.S. excess and surplus lines sector is...
Sep 22 2014 // Demotech’s review of second quarter 2014 data, as recently reported by insurers to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, shows that workers’ compensation insurers reported a 5.1 percent increase...
Sep 22 2014 // Texas’ insurance commissioner has allowed the three largest home insurers to impose significant rate hikes on many policyholders despite the objections of a state consumer advocate.Insurance Commissioner Julia...
Sep 21 2014 // Rates for the almost 100,000 commercial property risks insured by Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. will rise an average 3.3 percent next February.The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has...
Sep 15 2014 // The Texas insurance commissioner has allowed the three largest home insurers to impose significant rate hikes on many policyholders despite the objections of a state consumer advocate.Insurance Commissioner Julia Rathgeber...
Sep 9 2014 // Commercial insurance prices continued to moderate in the 2014 second quarter. This time, they inched up 3 percent in aggregate, versus a 4 percent increase in the first three months of this year, a new Towers Watson survey...
Sep 8 2014 // Florida workers’ compensation writers have recommended a 2.5 percent rate decrease for 2015.The Office of Insurance Regulation has received the filing by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI), which...
Sep 8 2014 // What’s the big deal with a hard property/casualty insurance market?Everyone likes one, said Art Davis, president of Colony Specialty, a member of the Argo Group. “You make a lot of money, have good...
Sep 5 2014 // Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance (KEMI), the largest workers’ compensation insurer in Kentucky, announced that it plans to file for an overall rate reduction of 5 percent effective Jan. 1, 2015.KEMI said...
Sep 5 2014 // Oklahomans shopping for individual health insurance policies through the federal exchange will be able to choose from six different companies offering multiple plans, the Oklahoma Insurance Department announced.Rate...
Aug 26 2014 // Florida’s Office of Insurance Regulation announced it received the 2015 Florida workers’ compensation rate filing by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI), which proposes a statewide average...
Aug 22 2014 // Willis Group Holdings August Energy Market Review (EMR) highlights the decision by Oil Insurance Limited (OIL) to increase its per occurrence limit from $300 million to $400 million and the event aggregation limit from...
Aug 20 2014 // Ping An Insurance (Group) Co., China’s second-largest insurer, said first-half profit grew 19 percent as premium income climbed and banking revenue increased.Net income rose to 21.4 billion yuan ($3.5 billion), or a...
Aug 14 2014 // Technology is not an incentive when it comes to attracting and retaining millennials to the insurance industry but it can provide overall job satisfaction in terms of flexibility and career growth opportunities, according...
Aug 13 2014 // What’s the big deal with a hard property/casualty insurance market?Everyone likes one, said Art Davis, president of Colony Specialty, a member of the Argo Group. “You make a lot of money, have good...
Aug 11 2014 // “Tackling the cost of whiplash claims is essential to ensure UK motorists continue to benefit from lower average motor insurance premiums,” The Association of British Insurers said in a bulletin.According to...