Latest Property Casualty Headlines

All the headlines from our Property Casualty Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Monahan Returns to Appalachian Underwriters in Florida as P&C Senior Broker

Feb 17 2021 // Appalachian Underwriters, Inc. (AUI) has appointed Kimberly Monahan to its Brokerage Department as a property and casualty broker.Monahan is located in Daytona Beach, Fla., and will be working to cover the Northeast Coast...

Applied Underwriters Acquires Oklahoma Property and Casualty Insurance

Feb 16 2021 // Applied Underwriters’ affiliate, North American Casualty Co., has completed its acquisition of Oklahoma City-based Oklahoma Property and Casualty Insurance Co. (OP&C).Applied Underwriters plans to make various...

P/C Insurers’ Net Income for 9 Months Fell 27% on Effects of Catastrophes

Feb 9 2021 // In the first nine months of 2020, net income for the U.S. property/casualty insurance industry dropped 27.5% to $35.1 billion and net underwriting gains declined to $0.3 billion, from $5.4 billion a year earlier as the...

P/C Insurtech Funding Reaches $4.7B Record in 2020 – A Story in Charts

Feb 1 2021 // After a slow start in 2020, insurtech funding reached a record level of $7.1 billion for the year, with $4.7 billion earmarked for property/casualty startups, according to a quarterly tracker of insurtech funding...

AM Best Upgrades Credit Ratings of Kemper P/C Group and Its Subsidiaries

Jan 29 2021 // AM Best has upgraded the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) to A (Excellent) from A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) to “a” from “a-” of the property/casualty...

Title Insurer First American to Exit P/C Insurance with Transfers to Safeco, Heritage

Jan 27 2021 // Title insurer First American Financial Corp. reported recently that its property/casualty insurance subsidiaries have entered into book transfer agreements with Safeco Insurance and Heritage Insurance Holdings.The...

Allstate to Sell Life Insurance Company to Blackstone for $2.8B to Grow in P/C

Jan 27 2021 // The Allstate Corp. is selling Allstate Life Insurance Co. to entities managed by investment firm Blackstone for $2.8 billion.Explaining the move from Allstate’s perspective, Allstate CEO Tom Wilson referred to a...

Bearley Promoted to President of Great American’s P/C Group Bond Unit

Jan 20 2021 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Group has promoted Kenneth (Ken) R. Bearley to divisional president within its Property/Casualty Group’s Bond Division.Bearley joined Great American in 1994 as an...

Willis Towers Watson Adds Shanghai to Global Markets Property/Casualty Hub

Jan 14 2021 // Willis Towers Watson, the global advisory, broking and solutions company, announced the addition of Shanghai to its global property and casualty hub, aimed at enhancing the company’s global placement model for...

Cohen Promoted to Divisional Group President in Great American’s P/C Group

Jan 13 2021 // Great American Insurance Group, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, promoted Jason M. Cohen to divisional group president within its Property & Casualty Group. Cohen will continue as the divisional president of Strategic Comp,...

Outlooks Revised to Negative for Iowa’s United Fire Group, Property/Casualty Subs

Dec 21 2020 // AM Best has revised the outlooks to negative from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) of “a” of the property/casualty...

Zurich and Farmers Agree to Buy MetLife’s U.S. P/C Business for $3.94 Billion

Dec 11 2020 // Zurich Insurance and Farmers Exchanges have agreed to buy MetLife’s U.S. property and casualty business for $3.94 billion, the insurers said on Friday, after the COVID-19 pandemic made motor and home insurers more...

Credit Ratings of Chicago’s Echelon Property & Casualty Insurance Downgraded

Dec 10 2020 // AM Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating to C+ (Marginal) from B- (Fair) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to “b-” from “bb-” of Echelon Property & Casualty Insurance Co....

NFP Hires Franznick to P&C Division as Senior Vice President

Dec 3 2020 // NFP, an insurance broker and consultant that provides property and casualty, corporate benefits, retirement and individual solutions, has hired Jonathan Franznick to its P&C division as a senior vice president.In this...

AmWINS to Acquire Bermuda-Based International Specialty Brokers Ltd.

Dec 1 2020 // AmWINS Group Inc., a global distributor of specialty insurance products and services, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire International Specialty Brokers Ltd. (ISBL), a Bermuda-based P&C wholesale...

D.C. Postpones All P/C Insurance Rate Increases During COVID Crisis

Dec 1 2020 // The Washington D.C. Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB) issued a new insurance bulletin to notify all property and casualty insurers that for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic, all filed rate...

Zurich Insurance in Talks to Acquire MetLife Unit for $4 Billion

Nov 22 2020 // Switzerland’s Zurich Insurance Group AG is in advanced talks to acquire MetLife Inc.’s U.S. property and casualty (P&C) car and home insurance unit for close to $4 billion, according to people familiar with...

Etier Appointed Assistant VP at Dwight Andrus Insurance

Nov 19 2020 // Dwight W. Andrus Insurance Inc. in Lafayette, La., has appointed Brandt Etier as assistant vice president of Property and Casualty Sales.Etier began his insurance career with Dwight Andrus Insurance in 2010, where he...

Swiss Re Names Kitsikis as Head of Client Markets P&C for Canada, English Caribbean

Nov 17 2020 // Swiss Re announced the appointment of Agis Kitsikis as head of Client Markets P&C for Canada and English Caribbean, effective immediately. Kitsikis succeeds Stefan Behr, who recently accepted the position as Swiss...

Prime Property & Casualty Insurance Inc. Successfully Resolved Trucking Case in Florida Jury Verdict of Just Under $412M

Nov 17 2020 // Chicago, IL, November 13, 2020 – Prime Property & Casualty Insurance Inc. (“PPCI”) successfully resolved a trucking case that went to jury trial in Florida resulting in a jury verdict of just under...