All the headlines from our S&P Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 26 2025 // With a combined ratio of 89.1 for third-quarter 2025, the U.S. property/casualty insurance industry had its best quarter in at least a quarter of a century—and maybe longer, S&P Market Intelligence said.In a research...
Sep 9 2025 // Swiss Re tops the list of the world’s 40 largest reinsurers in 2025, followed by Munich Re and Hannover Re, according to S&P Global Ratings.Berkshire Hathaway Insurance Group comes in at number four, while...
Sep 8 2025 // As natural catastrophes become more frequent and destructive, a key backstop intended to help cover losses has gotten harder to access.The reinsurance industry, which exists to help primary insurers cope with losses when...
Aug 14 2025 // Earlier this month, Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings announced another downgrade for State Farm General Insurance Co., lowering the California company’s financial strength rating to A- in spite of a show of...
Jul 23 2025 // Competition among European non-life primary insurers is increasing, despite rising claims inflation, according to S&P Global Ratings in a report on the European insurance sector.Property/casualty commercial insurers...
Mar 5 2025 // Australia’s largest property and casualty (P/C) insurers should be well placed to manage claims stemming from tropical cyclone Alfred, which could top A$2billion (US$1.3 billion), according to a report published by...
Feb 26 2025 // Potential downgrades of State Farm’s California homeowners insurer came closer to reality yesterday when S&P Global Ratings put the “AA” financial strength and issuer credit ratings of State Farm...
Oct 25 2024 // As the third-fastest growing company on a list of the world’s top 50 largest insurers, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. continued to rank No. 1, according to research S&P Global Market...
Sep 26 2024 // State Farm was the only one of 10 major players in the homeowners insurance market reporting a worse second-quarter loss ratio for the line than it did in 2023, according to a new analysis.The outlier result came even as...
Jun 28 2024 // In the topsy-turvy world of homeowners insurance, first-quarter loss ratios have been bouncing around for the last five years—from below 50 in 2020 to over 70 in 2021 and 2023, a new analysis shows.The S&P Global...
May 23 2024 // The U.S. homeowners insurance segment posted its worst underwriting results in over a decade in 2023, according to an analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence.The net combined ratio for the homeowners business,...
May 22 2024 // S&P Global Market Intelligence weighed in on the U.S. cyber insurance marketplace, reporting that premium dipped in 2023 to end several years of rapid growth.The overall 0.7% decline in cyber insurance direct written...
May 16 2024 // The U.S. property/casualty industry’s net combined ratio improved in 2023 to 101.7 from 102.5 the prior year, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.The combined ratio for the industry’s personal...
May 2 2024 // MS Reinsurance, the reinsurance subsidiary of MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, has received rating upgrades from AM Best and S&P Global Ratings.On April 26, 2024, AM Best announced it had upgraded the...
Apr 5 2024 // Women’s representation in senior level positions at US companies faces an “alarming turning point,” with steady growth showing signs of fatigue for the first time in two decades, according to a new...
Apr 4 2024 // The severe drought which has forced the Panama Canal, one of the world’s busiest trade passages, to limit daily crossings could impact global supply chains during a period of high demand, S&P Global said on...
Mar 22 2024 // Florida’s beleaguered property insurance market is starting to look normal again, with the top insurers in the state showing a collective profit for the first time in seven years, S&P Global Market Intelligence...
Mar 6 2024 // California’s high rainfall in 2023 is continuing into 2024 but has yet to have a material effect on credit quality for cities and counties rated by S&P Global Ratings, however the longer-term effects on issuers...
Dec 15 2023 // S&P Global Ratings has revised its financial strength rating for Lloyd’s of London to “AA–”, outlook stable, from “A+”, outlook stable.The rating upgrade reflects the improvement in...
Nov 20 2023 // S&P Global Market Intelligence projects that personal auto results will improve from 2022’s worst-in-decades combined ratio of 112.2%, though not as rapidly as the organization’s experts previously...