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TWIA Board Reviews 2025 Budget After $455 Million Loss from Hurricane Beryl

Nov 19 2024 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association Board of Directors met last week to review information related to the agency’s 2025 budget.The meeting presented new information on TWIA losses from 2024 storms as projected...

Spain’s Record-Breaking Floods Push Insured Losses Above €4 Billion ($4.2 Billion)

Nov 18 2024 // Total insured losses from recent floods in Spain are expected to exceed €4 billion (US$4.2 billion), according to credit rating agency Morningstar DBRS.This insured price tag includes losses absorbed by the Consorcio de...

Chubb Continues ‘Record’ Year With 13.8% Jump in Q3 Net Income

Nov 18 2024 // Chubb recorded an 11.7% increase in P/C underwriting income with a combined ratio of 87.7 as part of third quarter net income of about $2.2 billion, up 13.8%.CEO Evan G. Greenberg said the Whitehouse Station, New...

Economic, Social Inflation Influence Drop in Commercial Auto UW Profits: Triple-I/CAS

Nov 18 2024 // Commercial auto insurance has struggled to achieve underwriting profitability, even before inflationary conditions affected property/casualty lines in recent years. The trend has been accompanied by steady growth in net...

Would Letting Roofers Do More Wind-Mitigation Work Help Reduce Florida’s Insured Losses in Storms?

Nov 18 2024 // A recent photograph of destruction left by Hurricane Milton’s wind tells the story: An entire roof section on a residential complex in Bradenton, Florida – including rafters and ceiling joists – was...

Texas Workers’ Comp is Growing, Profitable, Adding Doctors

Nov 14 2024 // Texas’s worker’s compensation market is stable and steadily growing.The workers’ compensation market is one of the few consistently profitable lines in the state, according to the Worker’s...

2024 More of the Same in Commercial Auto Segment After $5B Net Loss in 2023

Nov 14 2024 // After the U.S. commercial auto insurance segment sustained a $5 billion net loss in 2023, a new AM Best reports indicates further deterioration in the first half of 2024.Despite targeted underwriting initiatives, including...

Liberty Mutual Quadruples Q3 Net Income Despite Catastrophe Losses

Nov 7 2024 // Liberty Mutual Holding Company said consolidated third quarter net income more than quadrupled to $897 million compared to $215 million during the same period a year ago.Catastrophe losses remained elevated at nearly $1.1...

Zurich’s Exposure to Hurricanes Helene, Milton Below $360M as Catastrophe Losses Rise

Nov 7 2024 // Zurich Insurance Group said on Thursday that its exposure to Hurricanes Helene and Milton, which recently wreaked havoc in the United States, would be less than $360 million, as insurers face increasing losses from natural...

Swiss Re Cuts 2024 Profit Target After Raising US Reserves

Nov 7 2024 // Swiss Re AG said it was raising reserves in its US Property & Casualty business by $2.4 billion in the third quarter, a move analysts said was positive despite a resulting downgrade to full-year profit...

AIG CEO Zaffino on Approach to Catastrophe Losses in Today’s Reinsurance Market

Nov 6 2024 // American International Group CEO Peter Zaffino said he expects the reinsurance market’s attachment points to remain on top of losses generated by the frequency and severity of natural catastrophes.Losses will instead...

NHTSA Closes Probe Into 411,000 Ford Vehicles Due to Loss of Power

Nov 5 2024 // The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Monday it has closed a probe into 411,000 Ford SUVs and pickup trucks over a potentially defective engine that could lose power without warning.In July 2022, the...

AIG General Insurance Underwriting Profit Falls 28% in Q3

Nov 5 2024 // American International Group saw third quarter underwriting income in its general insurance segment fall 28% to $437 million due to higher catastrophe losses and lower favorable development on prior year reserves.The...

Berkshire’s GEICO Turns in Strong Q3 but Overall Insurance UW Income Slips

Nov 4 2024 // Third quarter underwriting income with Berkshire Hathaway’s insurance units fell about $1.7 billion to $750 million due to estimated losses of about $565 million from Hurricane Helene and increases in losses from...

Would Letting Roofers Do More Wind-Mit Work Help Cut Florida’s Insured Losses?

Nov 4 2024 // A recent photograph of destruction left by Hurricane Milton’s wind tells the story: An entire roof section on a residential complex in Bradenton, Florida – including rafters and ceiling joists – was ripped off,...

Natural Disaster Losses Below Average Through Q3, Despite Higher Frequency: Report

Nov 4 2024 // Although 2024 has seen significant global natural catastrophe activity, economic costs were slightly below average through the third quarter, according to Gallagher Re’s latest Nat Cat report.The total economic loss...

Lemonade Remains in the Red With $68M Loss in Q3

Oct 31 2024 // Insurtech Lemonade reported a third quarter 20243 net loss of nearly $68 million and a year-to-date loss of $172.2 million.Results were in comparison to a net loss of $61.5 during the same quarter and a loss of $194.5 as...

‘Pivotal’ Q3 Sees Insurtech Root Achieves Net Income Profit for the First Time

Oct 31 2024 // For the first time in the company’s history, Root Inc. recorded a quarterly net income profit.The Columbus, Ohio-based parent company of Root Insurance founded in 2015 recorded third quarter net income of about $23...

Allstate Turns in Net Income of $1.2B After Q3 Hurricanes

Oct 31 2024 // Allstate Corp. said its net income attributable to common shareholders for the third quarter was about $1.2 billion compared to a loss of $41 million during the same time a year ago.The Northbrook, Illinois-based insurer...

Chubb Continues ‘Record’ Year With 13.8% Jump in Q3 Net Income

Oct 29 2024 // Chubb recorded an 11.7% increase in P/C underwriting income with a combined ratio of 87.7 as part of third quarter net income of about $2.2 billion, up 13.8%CEO Evan G. Greenberg said the Whitehouse Station, New...