Global Q2 Commercial Insurance Rates Remain Flat, Ending 7 Years of Price Hikes: Marsh July 24, 2024 Global commercial insurance rates remained flat during the second quarter of 2024 (down from a 1% increase in Q1 2024),...
J.D. Power: Auto Insurance Shopping Hits New High, Could Drop With Rate Adequacy July 24, 2024 The national auto insurance shopping and quoting rate reached a new high between April and June, but many insurers appear...
Personal Auto Driving P/C Insurers to 2024 Underwriting Profit July 23, 2024 By Susanne Sclafane S&P Global Market Intelligence is forecasting a combined ratio of 99.2 for the U.S. P/C insurance industry overall in 2024,...
British Insurers Propose Green Infrastructure Funding Model July 23, 2024 By Huw Jones Britain’s insurers set out plans on Monday on how to channel billions of pounds freed up from their safety buffers...
US Severe Storms Continue to Drive Global Natural Disaster Losses: Gallagher Re July 22, 2024 By L.S. Howard US severe convective storms (SCS) continued to drive global natural catastrophe losses during the first half of 2024. Of the...
Somali Piracy Revives Sharply After Years of Quiet July 22, 2024 By Eleanor Thornber Somali piracy — the scourge of merchant shipping more than a decade ago — has had a resurgence this year,...
Tesla’s California Car Registrations Fall for Third Straight Quarter July 19, 2024 By Akash Sriram and Hyunjoo Jin Registrations of Tesla cars in California fell 24% in the April to June period, marking the third consecutive quarter that...
Study Urges Rethinking of Disaster Management in Era of Compounding Events July 18, 2024 By Allen Laman A new report warns that compounding natural disasters introduce new, interconnected, and complex risk scenarios — and points to a...
Hard Market Conditions Expected to Ease in 2025 as Claims Inflation Softens: Swiss Re July 18, 2024 By L.S. Howard Hard market conditions in the global non-life insurance sector will continue this year, but will begin to ease in 2025,...
Parametric Insurance Helps Farmers and Others Hit Hard by Extreme Weather July 15, 2024 By Bill Spindle, Cipher News Joemar Flores, a spindly 28-year-old, gestured across his family’s farmland, nestled between a steep hill and a river, and expressed...