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...Allstate, State Farm and AIG have stopped underwriting new homeowners’ policies in California because of the risk of destructive wildfires....
...California last month struck a deal with insurance companies to continue writing policies for property in disaster-prone areas, after big US names such as State Farm and Allstate stopped issuing any new...
...The US property and casualty insurance industry has suffered through a summer of devastating thunderstorms on the continent....
...Big insurers such as State Farm and Allstate said recently they had suspended offering home insurance to new customers in California....
...The company said the head of its insurance operations, Gilles Dellaert, would lead the combined unit....
...In recent months, both State Farm and Allstate have announced plans to stop writing new policies in fire-prone California....
...This trend has intensified in recent years with large insurers following suit: for example, Allstate, Chubb and AIG sharply scaled down operations in California citing onerous price regulation....
...Although the decisions by US insurers such as Allstate and State Farm to stop writing homeowners insurance in California may appear unduly harsh, they do serve to make the hazard risk explicit (“What happens...
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...Gaps in coverage are already emerging: US companies State Farm and Allstate have stopped accepting new home insurance policies in California thanks to the state’s wildfire risk....
...Zurich, one of Europe’s biggest insurance groups, released full-year results on Thursday, reporting a flat combined ratio — claims and expenses as a proportion of premiums — for its property and casualty...
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...But one can hardly blame the insurance companies for their reluctance to be in these markets given the rise in the accumulation of risk in disaster-prone areas....
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...The share price of two of the largest US car insurance companies — Take Allstate and Progressive — have fallen in the past month, reflecting the rising costs of underwriting auto insurance policies....
...It has also begun to manage the debt portfolios for large insurance companies, including AIG and Allstate....
...Allstate cited the growing bill from wildfires as among the reasons it paused selling new home insurance policies in California last year....
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