All the headlines from our Pricing Trends Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 20 2010 // The North Carolina Court of Appeals has declined to upset a 2008 agreement between the state’s former insurance commissioner and insurers that hiked insurance rates for some coastal homeowners up to 30 percent and...
Apr 19 2010 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. filed a lawsuit against the Texas Department of Insurance after the state agency took the unprecedented move of publicizing on its Web site recent rate hike proposals by the...
Apr 19 2010 // Homeowners who are dependent on Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort will see rates increasing by an average 7 percent statewide. Rate increases — as well as decreases — will vary widely, especially in...
Apr 19 2010 // A judge in Austin has blocked regulators from posting on the Texas Department of Insurance Web site some documents on two rate rate filings by State Farm Insurance Cos. that would increase homeowners insurance premiums for...
Apr 19 2010 // Commercial insurance buyers continue to benefit from lower prices and steady or increasing insurance capacity in property/casualty markets, reports the nation’s largest insurance broker.In its newly published Lockton...
Apr 16 2010 // For the fourth year in a row, most physicians and surgeons in Oregon will see a decline or no change in medical professional liability insurance rates, according to rate changes reviewd by the state Department of Consumer...
Apr 15 2010 // Seven years and running, the soft market shows few signs of loosening its grip on commercial insurance pricing, according to a new industry study.Average premiums in every line tracked by the RIMS Benchmark Survey, fell in...
Apr 9 2010 // North Dakota’s workers compensation agency is proposing a 3.3 percent average increase in its rates, starting in July.Agency director Bryan Klipfel says most of the increase is because of North Dakota’s rising...
Apr 5 2010 // Homeowners who are dependent on Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort will see rates increasing by an average7 percent statewide.However, rate increases – as well as decreases – will vary widely,...
Apr 2 2010 // The recession may be over, but recovery is not happening quickly enough for insurers and brokers. From unemployment rates hovering at about 10 percent to still rising business bankruptcies, the lingering effects of the...
Mar 31 2010 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. has filed an average 9.9 percent rate increase request for homeowners coverage in Louisiana, according to the Associated Press.State Farm is Louisiana’s largest home insurer with just...
Mar 30 2010 // Questions about aging river levees in metro Albuquerque, N.M., could mean insurance premium hikes as high as $2,000 annually for thousands of property owners.The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has rated the condition of the...
Mar 18 2010 // Mobile’s fire-rescue chief says a downgrade in fire protection rating is likely to boost insurance premiums the most for homeowners just outside the city limits.Fire-Rescue Chief Steve Dean said that while city...
Mar 11 2010 // The number of overall traffic fatalities reported at the end of 2009 reached the lowest level since 1954, declining for the 15th consecutive quarter, the U.S. Department of Transportation reported.According to early...
Mar 10 2010 // Iowa’s largest health insurance provider will delay a planned premium increase after Gov. Chet Culver raised questions about the higher rates to the state insurance commissioner.Culver sent a letter to Insurance...
Mar 3 2010 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said she opposes an insurance industry request to raise workers’ compensation premiums by about four percent this year. She said the hike would put an “additional...
Mar 3 2010 // DeRidder, La.-based workers’ compensation insurer Amerisafe Inc. reported net income of $6.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2009, an increase of 15 percent over the $5.7 million recorded in the fourth quarter of...
Mar 2 2010 // Massachusetts workers’ compensation insurance rates would rise an average of 4.5 percent under a new rate proposal submitted by the Workers’ Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau.The bureau is the licensed...
Feb 26 2010 // Los Angeles-Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr., who has an ongoing investigation into possibly illegal practices by some California health insurers, has subpoenaed financial records and other documents from...
Feb 26 2010 // The median six-month auto insurance rate in Arizona has increased approximately 2 percent over the past six months to reach $829 according to InsWeb, an online insurance comparison provider.Among the other statistics the...