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Washington Proposes 4.9% Increase in Workers’ Comp Rates for 2024

Sep 20 2023 // The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries is proposing a 4.9% increase in the average hourly rate employers and workers will pay for workers’ compensation insurance next year.If adopted, the increase...

Woodruff Sawyer: Softer D&O Market Still Offers Concerns for Underwriters

Sep 19 2023 // While concerns about a “tsunami of pandemic-related litigation” never quite materialized, according to Woodruff Sawyer in its latest D&O Looking Ahead Guide for 2023, those fears have been replaced with a...

Australia’s New Hope to Ramp Up Coal Output, Sees Modest Insurance Premium Hikes

Sep 19 2023 // Australian miner New Hope Group’sCEO Rob Bishop said on Tuesday plans are progressing to double output over the next three years to meet an expected surge in demand for coal-fired power, after reporting a nearly 11%...

California Regulators Propose Higher Rates for PG&E Customers to Reduce Wildfire Risk

Sep 15 2023 // Power bills for about 16 million people in Northern California will likely increase after state regulators released two rate proposals for one of the nation`s largest utilities.The California Public Utilities Commission is...

Policygenius Finds Average Home Insurance Prices Up 21%

Sep 14 2023 // Online insurance marketplace Policygenius has found that home insurance premiums at renewal increased 21% on average from May 2022 to May 2023.The state that saw the highest average increase for homeowners insurance during...

Q2 US Commercial Lines Prices Up 6.1%: WTW

Sep 12 2023 // According to WTW’s Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey (CLIPS), commercial insurance prices in the U.S. continued to increase in the second quarter.The quarterly survey, answered by insurance carriers,...

Reinsurance Rates to Rise in 2024, Soften in 2025: Fitch

Sep 8 2023 // Reinsurance rates are likely to continue to rise in 2024, though at a slower pace than in 2023, and prices will start to fall in 2025, Fitch Ratings analyst Robert Mazzuoli told Reuters on Thursday.Reinsurers – who...

S&P Raises Reinsurance Sector View to Stable From Negative as Rates Keep Rising

Sep 5 2023 // S&P Global has raised its view of the global reinsurance sector to stable from negative, it said on Tuesday, due to higher reinsurance rates and increasing investment income, while rival Moody’s kept its outlook...

Private Flood Insurers See Opportunity as NFIP Increases Rates

Sep 4 2023 // While the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) rolls out a new rating program generating premium increases for many policyholders, the private flood insurance market has seized the opportunity to grow its market share...

Rate Hikes Not Bringing Profit to US Auto Insurers: Fitch

Sep 4 2023 // Jumps in rates and written premiums did little to move the needle on underwriting profits for U.S. personal auto insurers, Fitch Ratings reported based on a recent review of midyear results of nine big market...

Strategies and Key Steps to Get Through Today’s Hard Market

Sep 4 2023 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance market is experiencing the hardest insurance market cycle in a generation, resulting in many insurance agents and brokers, as well as drivers, homeowners and business owners needing to...

Hard Market Pressure: Surplus Lines Lifting Heavy Load in Turbulent Times

Sep 4 2023 // As the longest hard market in memory refuses to fade, standard property/casualty carriers are not only continuing to raise prices but also reimagining their books by shedding risks they no longer want.It’s affecting...

Veteran Insurance Pros Offer Strategies for Navigating a Hard Market

Sep 4 2023 // Everyone in the insurance industry knows that 2023 has become one of the hardest markets in decades, across the board.In a panel discussion — No One Said it Would be Easy. Navigating the Current Hard Market —...

Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Announces 3.9% Rate Reduction for Public Employers in 2024

Aug 30 2023 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation announced a 3.9% rate reduction for the state’s public employers, a rate cut that will go into effect Jan. 1, 2024.The rate reduction will result in nearly $8 million...

Dutch Insurer NN Says Extreme Weather May Make Further Premium Hikes Unavoidable

Aug 30 2023 // Dutch insurer NN Group NV may increase premiums further as extreme weather patterns become more prevalent, Chief Executive Officer David Knibbe said.While NN benefited from benign weather conditions in the first half of...

Car Premiums to Rise Again as British Insurers Feel the Heat

Aug 30 2023 // Motorists in Britain should brace for another year of steep insurance rises as providers confront cost pressures, industry figures have warned.Admiral Group Plc will continue increasing motor insurance prices and expects...

Reinsurers’ Cyber Rates Expected to Rise as They Seek to Regain Profitability: S&P

Aug 29 2023 // More cyber reinsurance rate increases can be expected as reinsurers seek to regain underwriting profits in their cyber portfolios, according to a report published by S&P Global Ratings.“Reinsurers had a difficult...

NCCI Calls for Average 15% Decrease in Florida Workers’ Compensation Rates

Aug 29 2023 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance has proposed an average 15.1% decrease in rates for Florida, starting Jan. 1, the latest and one of the largest reduction recommendations in more than a decade of rate...

Florida OIR Tells Citizens to Rethink Maximum Rate Increase on HO Policies

Aug 22 2023 // When Citizens Property Insurance Corp. in June filed for the maximum rate increases allowed by its statutory glidepath, many in the Florida insurance industry saw it as a good thing, needed to help steer policyholders back...

Private Flood Insurers See Opportunity as NFIP Increases Rates

Aug 21 2023 // While the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) rolls out a new rating program generating premium increases for many policyholders, the private flood insurance market has seized the opportunity to grow its market share...