Personal Lines

Specialty commercial insurers continue to lead the way for property and casualty insurers underwriting results for this years first nine months, but results overall are down sharply compared to same period in 2010, according to a Fitch Ratings analysis.

Leadership in Florida seems committed to shrinking the size of the states exposures to a major hurricane, says Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Information Institute.

Homeowners rates in Massachusetts have been inflated due to the use of unproven and in some cases discredited hurricane models, according to the states attorney general.

Congress last night passed and sent to the President legislation extending the National Flood Insurance Program until Dec. 16.

The energy market is difficult to read, says a new report by Marshso much so that one official classified current conditions as a harft market.

It is unnecessary for P&C insurance companies to be overseen by the Financial Stability Oversight Council as potentially systemically significant, and Congress should move to take away that authority, NAMIC contends.