U.S. property/casualty insurers’ net income after taxes grew to $63.8 billion in 2013 from $35.1 billion in 2012, with insurers’ overall profitability as measured by their rate of return on average policyholders’ surplus climbing to 10.3 percent from 6.1 percent. …
Even though State Farm’s auto businesses suffered a loss in 2013, the property/casualty companies reported a $230 million underwriting gain, State Farm reported. The $230 million gain of $230 million on earned premium of $54.5 billion compared with an underwriting …
A relatively quiet year for catastrophes helped the U.S. property/casualty industry achieved an underwriting profit for the first time in four years, according to A.M. Best. The industry managed its way to a nearly 60 percent increase in net income …
Private U.S. property/casualty insurers’ net income after taxes rose to $43 billion in nine-months 2013 from $27.8 billion in nine-months 2012, with insurers’ overall profitability as measured by their annualized rate of return on average policyholders’ surplus increasing to 9.5 …
Zurich Insurance Group AG, Switzerland’s biggest insurer, said third-quarter profit rose 64 percent, beating analyst estimates, after a write-off related to its German business hurt earnings a year earlier. Net income rose to $1.1 billion from $672 million a year …
Progressive Corp., the fourth-largest U.S. auto insurer, said profit dropped 16 percent as investment income declined for a 12th straight quarter. Third-quarter net income decreased to $232.4 million, or 39 cents a share, from $277 million, or 46 cents, a …
