All the headlines from our Pricing Trends Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 19 2012 // Commercial insurance prices increased an aggregate 3 percent during the fourth quarter of 2011, the fourth consecutive quarter during which prices for all standard commercial lines rose. Additionally, earned price...
Mar 19 2012 // A report on Arizona’s property/casualty insurers issued recently shows a drop in written premiums to $7.4 billion, and a large increase in losses incurred to $6.4 billion for 2010.The report, from the Arizona...
Mar 19 2012 // It’s been more than 10 years since Massachusetts raised its workers’ compensation average rates. Is it time for a rate hike? The state’s insurance commissioner Joseph Murphy will hold a public hearing on...
Mar 19 2012 // Commercial insurance prices increased an aggregate 3 percent during the fourth quarter of 2011, the fourth consecutive quarter during which prices for all standard commercial lines rose. Additionally, earned price...
Mar 19 2012 // Commercial insurance prices increased an aggregate 3 percent during the fourth quarter of 2011, the fourth consecutive quarter during which prices for all standard commercial lines rose.Additionally, earned price increases...
Mar 15 2012 // An annual report from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California shows that for the second consecutive year statewide workers’ compensation premiums levels rose in 2011, but that...
Mar 12 2012 // Commercial insurance prices increased an aggregate 3 percent during the fourth quarter of 2011, the fourth consecutive quarter during which prices for all standard commercial lines rose.Additionally, earned price increases...
Mar 8 2012 // Massachusetts insurance commissioner Joseph Murphy will hold a public hearing March 30 to examine a rate increase request from The Workers’ Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau of Massachusetts (WCRIB).The...
Mar 5 2012 // With interest rates low and looking like they will stay low for some time, property/casualty insurance companies will have to focus on making their profit on underwriting rather than on investments.However, P/C insurers...
Mar 5 2012 // The New York State Department of Financial Services said it has launched a wide-ranging probe of the accuracy of the data used by insurers and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to request health insurance rate...
Mar 1 2012 // A report on Arizona’s property/casualty insurers issued on Thursday shows a drop in written premiums to $7.4 billion, and a large increase in losses incurred to $6.4 billion for 2010.The report, from the Arizona...
Feb 24 2012 // With interest rates low and looking like they will stay low for some time to come, property/casualty insurance companies will have to focus on making their profit on underwriting rather than on investments.However, P/C...
Feb 16 2012 // The New York State Department of Financial Services has launched a wide-ranging probe of the accuracy of the data used by insurers and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to request health insurance rate...
Feb 7 2012 // Selective Insurance Group, based in Branchville, New Jersey, reported $16.1 million for its 2011 fourth-quarter net income, down 32 percent from one year ago when the insurer posted $23.8 million profit.For the 2011 full...
Feb 6 2012 // Mercury General Corp. announced on Monday that net premiums written were $618.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2011, a 0.2 percent increase compared from the fourth quarter of 2010, and net premiums were $2.6 billion for...
Feb 6 2012 // Property/casualty insurers are facing a difficult environment in 2012, according to a forecast from analysts at a Hartford, Conn., insurance consulting firm.The difficult environment will include volatility in the economy,...
Feb 6 2012 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is opposing a recently proposed home insurance rate request for 150,000 consumers, calling it illegally excessive. She made her remarks during her testimony before the...
Feb 6 2012 // Florida small businesses seeing their second workers’ compensation rate increase in as many years are calling on the state to reduce the increase because they fear it will harm the economy.A small business group is...
Feb 6 2012 // Six Northeastern states saw their annual average auto premium fall, according to the latest data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. They are: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,...
Feb 6 2012 // Travelers Companies Inc.’s business insurance had renewal premium rate gains of 8 percent for the fourth quarter 2011 and 10 percent for December, said CEO Jay Fishman. He offered his remarks during the earnings call...