Is the reinsurance price-hiking party over before it even began?In advance of Jan. 1 renewals, reinsurers are already toning down previously optimistic comments about ...
Nearly $50 billion in direct insured property losses moved property-casualty industry financial results off their record-breaking pace for the year, but the nine-month combined ...
Hurricane Katrina losses have spurred higher prices in property and marine insurance and reinsurance segments, but they may not be sustainable, a rating analyst ...
Auto Trends Drive Industry Profit In 2004 All p-c insurance lines except homeowners reported improved loss ratiosFewer accidents on Americas roadways were a key factor ...
The fact that the property-casualty insurance industry is bouncing back quickly from the third-quarter's hurricanes, doesn't mean that executives are any smarter in ...
Berkshire Hathaway has reported third-quarter net earnings dropped 48.5 percent to $586 million, or $381 per share, with nearly $3 billion in hurricane losses ...
The extraordinary events of the last two years==producing $100 billion of catastrophic claims==will require catastrophe modelers to modify assumptions about storm frequencies and intensities, ...
Boston--Rescinding policies is never an easy road for professional liability insurers==and a recent court decision makes it even more difficult, a defense lawyer told ...
The insurance business absolutely needs federal support for terrorism insurance, but it does not need a national catastrophe fund, three insurance executives advised an ...
S%26P Lowers Transatlantic Re, Affirms AspenStandard & Poor's lowered the financial strength ratings of Transatlantic Reinsurance Co. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries to "double-A-minus" from ...