All the headlines from our Property Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 7 2025 // Reinsurance renewal rates continued dropping during January renewals, but U.S. property/catastrophe reinsurance pricing is likely to stabilize during the coming midyear renewals, according to a report from Moody’s...
Apr 7 2025 // Higher premiums and longer wait times make property owners less satisfied with their insurers.These not-very-surprising results from J.D. Power’s 2025 U.S. Property Claims Satisfaction Study align with today’s...
Apr 7 2025 // Commercial property insurance rates continue to fall for most accounts after most property insurers saw profitable books in 2024. That’s good news for insureds, commercial property brokers say, as clients begin to...
Apr 1 2025 // A California bill requiring insurers to provide a notice to homeowners before conducting an inspection with aerial imaging is set for a committee hearing on Wednesday.Assembly Bill 75 requires insurers to provide a notice...
Mar 31 2025 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara approved a filing from the California FAIR Plan Association to increase commercial property coverage limits.Related: New Fire Maps Put Nearly 4M Californians in Hazardous...
Mar 24 2025 // Property data provider CoreLogic is rebranding to Cotality.The rebrand includes a new name, logo and brand identity. “The property ecosystem underpins the prosperity of individuals, businesses, governments, and...
Mar 20 2025 // Higher premiums and longer wait times make property owners less satisfied with their insurers.These not-very-surprising results from J.D. Power’s 2025 U.S. Property Claims Satisfaction Study align with today’s...
Mar 18 2025 // Rokstone, the international speciality re/insurance MGA that is part of the Aventum Group, announced it is expanding its property direct and facultative (D&F) portfolio with a new binder backed by Lloyd’s Somers...
Mar 17 2025 // A northern Virginia judge determined embryos are not property that can be divided up, rejecting a previous analysis by the court saying such fertilized eggs could be considered divisible “goods or chattel”...
Mar 14 2025 // Reinsurance renewal rates continued dropping during this year’s January renewals, but US property/catastrophe reinsurance pricing is likely to stabilize during the coming midyear renewals, according to a report from...
Mar 14 2025 // Specialty insurer Beazley appointed Lindsay Shipper as head of commercial property, North America, effective April 1.She will report to Richard Montminy, group head of property risks, and will be based in Atlanta. Shipper...
Mar 7 2025 // Tonya Courtney Nationwide, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, appointed Tonya Courtney to lead its new excess and surplus (E&S) brokerage property unit with the goal of opening for business in the second half of the...
Mar 6 2025 // RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. announced the launch of an Irish-domiciled property catastrophe bond fund, RenaissanceRe Medici UCITS Fund (Medici UCITS).A sub-fund of RenaissanceRe Medici ICAV, Medici UCITS is purpose-built...
Feb 27 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Beazley and BMS Re.A summary of these new hires follows here. Beazley Taps Generali’s Foucher as Head of Commercial Property, EuropeBeazley, the...
Feb 12 2025 // Wildfire Defense Insurance Services Inc. has launched wildfire only coverage for E&S commercial property in California. The product is available for a range of commercial property classes of business. The target class...
Feb 6 2025 // Wildfires are intensifying the problems in California’s property insurance market, according to a new commentary from AM Best.Those problems include a major insurer pullback from California in the past year, followed...
Feb 3 2025 // RenaissanceRe expects to incur about $750 million in losses from the January 2025 California wildfires—and anticipates that industrywide impacts should halt the drop in property-catastrophe reinsurance prices observed at...
Jan 30 2025 // E&S property insurance market conditions were a recurring talking point on two recent earnings conference calls, but the leaders of specialty insurers offering commentary were not perfectly in lockstep in their...
Jan 27 2025 // Itasca Re chairman Stephen Weinstein has launched a new Florida-domiciled insurance carrier, known as Mangrove Property Insurance, with plans to assume thousands of policies from Citizens Property Insurance Corp.Mangrove,...
Jan 27 2025 // The commercial property market is showing signs of stabilization, and buyers with favorable risk profiles will see rate decreases or low-single-digit increases this year, according to USI Insurance Services’ 2025...