All the headlines from our Pricing Trends Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 3 2012 // Farmers Insurance will raise homeowner premiums by nearly 10 percent after Texas regulators declined to object to the increase. The Dallas Morning News reported that the rate hike, set for mid-March, will apply to about...
Feb 1 2012 // W.R. Berkley Corporation reported net income of $117.9 million for its 2011 fourth quarter, a 7 percent decline compared to the same period one year ago when the company reported $126.9 million net income. The Greenwich,...
Jan 30 2012 // Chubb Corporation said its commercial insurance renewal rates were up 6 percent in the 2011 fourth quarter, as the pace of renewal rate increases continues to accelerate. Chubb also said it secured renewal rate hikes in...
Jan 25 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...
Jan 25 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 company...
Jan 25 2012 // Allstate Corp. is asking to raise rates for 144,000 Louisiana homeowners who get their insurance coverage from two Allstate companies.According to the state insurance department, Northbrook, Ill.-based Allstate wants an...
Jan 24 2012 // Travelers Companies Inc. reported a smaller profit for the fourth quarter, as it released less money from its reserves than a year earlier, though it also reported its biggest rate increases in eight years as the industry...
Jan 23 2012 // Property/casualty insurers are facing a difficult environment in 2012, according to a forecast from analysts at a Hartford insurance consulting firm.The difficult environment will include volatility in the economy, the...
Jan 23 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...
Jan 23 2012 // Amid the continued difficult economic conditions, a heightened frequency of catastrophic events in 2011 has resulted in nearly $40 billion of losses to insurers. The losses associated with these catastrophes have been...
Jan 20 2012 // Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA), headquartered in Austin, Texas, reported 19.5 percent growth in written property/casualty premiums in the third quarter of 2011, compared with the same period in 2010.CAA, whose 47...
Jan 20 2012 // Ohio’s relatively low rates for property insurance are expected to rise in 2012 due to the damaging storms of recent years.An insurance agent in Middletown in southwest Ohio says Mother Nature has had her way with...
Jan 16 2012 // Homeowners insurance premiums in Louisiana remain among the nation’s highest, but are rising much more slowly than they did in the first two years after Hurricane Katrina, new data from by the National Association of...
Jan 16 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...
Jan 9 2012 // A California consumer group is challenging a rate hike bid by Mercury Insurance because the group claims the company is trying to pass along the costs of its political campaigning.But the insurer says those costs are not...
Jan 9 2012 // Kansas’ top insurance regulator refused a proposed workers’ compensation rate increase and actually got the rate to drop slightly, the state insurance department announced.Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger...
Jan 6 2012 // Abram Interstate Insurance Services has added a new carrier that will provide competitive pricing and flexibility for hard-to-place accounts in California. Some of the products the new market will cover include roofing,...
Dec 22 2011 // A California consumer group is challenging a rate hike bid by Mercury Insurance because the group claims the company is trying to pass along the costs of its political campaigning.But the insurer says those costs are not...
Dec 22 2011 // Kansas’ top insurance regulator has refused a proposed workers’ compensation rate increase and actually got the rate to drop slightly, the state insurance department announced.Insurance Commissioner Sandy...
Dec 20 2011 // Florida condominium buildings that rent out 25 percent of their units will see no rate increase for now despite playing a key role in the state’s largest property insurer’s plan to reduce its policy count.Since...