All the headlines from our Pricing Trends Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 9 2010 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has received the 2010 workers compensation rate filings from the North Carolina Rate Bureau, the organization that represents the state’s workers compensation...
Sep 8 2010 // At a hearing yesterday before the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, Citizens Property Insurance Corp. officials blamed sinkholes as the major reason the public insurer needs a rate increase.Testifying at the public...
Sep 7 2010 // Florida’s Office of Insurance Regulation will hold a hearing on proposed rate increases for several lines of insurance from Citizens Property Insurance Corp. at 1 p.m. on Sept. 7, 2010, in Tallahassee. The lines of...
Sep 6 2010 // Sufficient funds are not available to meet the liabilities of Iowa’s Second Injury Fund, so the state is imposing a $4 million assessment on insurers and self-insured employers in Iowa. Notices were mailed from the...
Sep 6 2010 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association recently filed for 5 percent increases in both its residential and commercial rates, effective Jan. 1, 2011. While indications are those hikes won’t bring the rates for the...
Sep 6 2010 // As expected, the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has submitted a pure premium rate filing to the California Insurance Commissioner recommending a 29.6 percent increase in pure premium...
Sep 6 2010 // The Arizona Supreme Court is weighing in on the state’s uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage selection form – a decision that could dramatically increase insurance agency’s errors and omissions...
Sep 6 2010 // Approximately one year ago, I discussed the premium growth reported by insurers with the top 25 gains in workers’ compensation insurance premium volume. As I wrote that article, the unemployment rate in the United...
Sep 6 2010 // The U.S. property/casualty industry experienced modest growth in premiums written but overall the industry saw deterioration in underwriting profitability in second-quarter 2010, fueled by trends among personal lines...
Sep 1 2010 // A group of 19 U.S.-based property/casualty reinsurers wrote $12.3 billion of net premiums during the six-months ended June 30, 2010, a decrease from the $12.8 billion net premiums written in the first six months of...
Aug 26 2010 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association recently filed for 5 percent increases in both its residential and commercial rates, effective Jan. 1, 2011. While indications are those hikes won’t bring the rates for the...
Aug 25 2010 // California health insurance providers would be prohibited from raising their rates more than once a year under a bill moving through the state Legislature.The state Senate voted 21-13 in favor of AB2042. The bill now moves...
Aug 25 2010 // Sufficient funds are not available to meet the liabilities of Iowa’s Second Injury Fund, so the state is imposing a $4 million assessment on insurers and self-insured employers in Iowa. Notices were mailed from the...
Aug 20 2010 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association has filed for 5 percent increases in both its residential and commercial rates, effective Jan. 1, 2011.The state’s insurer of last resort provides wind and hail coverage in...
Aug 20 2010 // Louisiana homeowners who get their insurance coverage from five companies owned by Allstate Corp. will start paying higher rates in either November or December.Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon recently approved rate...
Aug 20 2010 // As expected, the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has submitted a pure premium rate filing to the California Insurance Commissioner recommending among other things a 29.6 percent increase...
Aug 19 2010 // The U.S. property and casualty industry experienced modest growth in premiums written but overall the industry saw deterioration in underwriting profitability in second-quarter 2010, fueled by trends among personal lines...
Aug 17 2010 // A $46 million round of grants will help U.S. states boost oversight of health insurance premium hikes and keep down costs, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Monday.All but a few states will receive...
Aug 16 2010 // If insurance actuaries had their way, rates for homeowners insured through Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance would be going up 55.9 percent on average. But there’s a cap on how much state-backed Citizens...
Aug 16 2010 // Insurance rates in the power sector are expected to soften further in 2010, despite the existence of many of the conditions that would normally presage a hardening market, according to the latest Power Market Review from...