Regulation & Compliance
After 18 Straight Years, Favorable Loss Reserve Development Streak Could End
In a new article published late last week, Fitch Ratings noted the prospect that 2024 could mark the end of a run of almost two decades of aggregate loss reserve releases for the U.S. ...
When Higher Pricing <> Underwriting Profit or Double-Digit Returns
In spite of premium increases that primary insurance carriers will record for 2023, the U.S. property/casualty industry as a whole won't report an underwriting profit or a double-digit return for the ...
More P/C Carriers With Less Surplus: Aon Ward Analysis
As we head into 2024, many property/casualty companies are primed to grow their businesses, but not all have adequate levels of surplus to support premium growth, an Aon Ward executive said during a ...
No Sugarcoating: Availability Before Affordability, Calif. Regulator Says
If the old adage "As California goes, so goes the nation" is true, then 2024 will be another year of industry retooling as insurers and regulators set a path for the future of the U.S. P/C property ...
Saying Goodbye to 2023: When Will California’s Insurance Crisis End?
"Sorry, America,
Your Insurance
Has Been Canceled"
The words were ...
AM Best Revises James River Group Outlook to Negative
AM Best has revised the outlook for James River Group Holdings Ltd and most of its subsidiaries and has downgraded the credit ratings of JRG Reinsurance Company.
Title Insurer Reports Another Cybersecurity Event; Fitch Monitoring Ratings
Less than a month after New York insurance regulators said a title insurer would pay $1 million for violations of a cybersecurity regulation stemming from a 2019 breach, the holding company for the ...
California Commish Warns Insurers About Auto Insurance Consumer Complaints
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara issued an official notice to insurers regarding consumers who have been reporting issues obtaining auto insurance coverage. The California Department of ...
Florida Insurers Got Creative About Reinsurance in ’23: KBRA
Things are looking up in the buffeted Florida market, but reinsurance rates will continue to rise for the next two years, and a 2024 hurricane season could be busy. It all suggests that property ...