For the second time this month, a personal auto insurance giant devoted an investor conference to the topic of rate hikes, with Allstate executives also assuring listeners the carrier has various other tools to return to profitability. “Looking back to …
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway said it reached an agreement with Alleghany Corp. to buy the New York-based property and casualty insurer for about $11.6 billion. Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire will acquire all outstanding Alleghany shares for $848.02 per share in cash …
Taking a deep dive into the world of managing general agents and other delegated underwriting authority enterprises, AM Best reports that premiums generated by DUAEs are climbing, and interest in MGA acquisitions remains high. In a March 1, 2022, report …
At the end of an interview with the founder of Quantiv Risk, an insurtech that helps carriers make sense of performance data from vehicles with advanced driver assistance systems, Carrier Management posed a big picture question: Who owns the data—the …
Tesla and other car makers represent a growing threat to incumbent auto insurers, even though they have little direct impact on the insurance market today, Moody’s Investors Services said. In a report titled, “Tesla’s insurance venture puts incumbents under added …
While he didn’t say that distribution of Root Insurance products through independent agents was off the table in 2022, the insurtech’s chief executive officer did say during a recent earnings call that the company is now laser-focused on embedded insurance. …
Taking a deep dive into the world of managing general agents and other delegated underwriting authority enterprises, AM Best reports that premiums generated by DUAEs are climbing, and interest in MGA acquisitions remains high. In a March 1, 2022 report …
Directors and officers liability insurance premium rate hikes have not had the anticipated impacts on loss ratios that carriers had hoped for, AM Best reported Monday, citing the impact of social inflation on rising claims and defense costs. Separately, in …
With unfavorable development and product mix changes propelling fourth-quarter and full-year loss 2021 ratios into the 90s—up 20 points over comparable 2020 periods—Lemonade guided shareholders that results will get worse in 2022. “2022 is expected to be our year of …
The trailing impacts of premium and loss trends on the books of property/casualty reinsurers makes the 2022 outlook for reinsurers rosier than the profit outlook for primary insurers, a Fitch Rating analyst said. Longer term, a prolonged period of inflation …
