No Sign Of Profit Demise In First Half

As property-casualty insurers tuned into The Weather Channel, worried that storms might drown their profit pictures, NU's data wizards compiled an early snapshot of first-half 2004 results and found profits almost everywhere.

According to preliminary data compiled by National Underwriter Insurance Data Services, the industry's combined ratio was 94.6 for first-half 20045.6 points better than the combined ratio reported for full-year 2003.

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