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A Near-Term Return to Underwriting Profit in Auto ‘Highly Unlikely’: AM Best

Apparently nothing has changed within the last several months to change AM Best’s negative outlook on the U.S. personal lines insurance segment. Tuesday the insurance industry rating agency said it was maintaining its view, first revised in September, primarily because …

Workers’ Compensation Underwriting Results Again Beat Other Lines in 2020

Workers’ compensation underwriters have been consistently generating better underwriting profits than other property/casualty lines of business, and did so again in 2020 amid the pandemic. According to an AM Best report, underwriting results of workers’ compensation insurers remained strong in …

Marsh Agrees: Soft Pricing Persisted Despite Catastrophe Losses in Q1

Catastrophe losses approached record levels in the first quarter but despite this commercial property/casualty insurance rate increases were confined to loss-affected exposures. In regions and for classes of business not affected by recent losses, there was little change in market …