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...Mayhem persists among the US’s property and casualty insurers. Auto-insurance businesses are still losing money....
...No premiums for insurtech Once high-flying insurance start-ups like Lemonade, Hippo and Root have emerged as the biggest casualties of the broader sell off in tech stocks, the FT’s Ian Smith writes....
...Swiss insurer Zurich is to expand in the US with its $3.9bn acquisition of MetLife’s property and casualty insurance business....
...People are locked in their properties and can’t move on and sell them, while service charges and insurance mean vastly increased costs . . ....
...Empty property insurance can be much more expensive than conventional home cover. One reader found the empty property premium was £800 on a property worth £75,000....
...Casualty Insurance Association....
...The UK property market is emerging from a period of deep freeze — and that’s bad news for house prices (and homeowners)....
...Although he and his wife are asset rich with two properties and six-figure sums invested in Isas and pensions, they receive little in the way of regular monthly income....
...The high costs of natural disasters in recent years have led to rising prices for reinsurance, and Swiss Re said that premiums in its property and casualty reinsurance business rose 17 per cent in the first...
...Property and casualty cover is seen as a far more natural home....
...Cash is with the Nationwide....
...growth in property re-insurance lines, where rates should continue to harden....
...delivery company....
...Exane likes Sampo and Lancashire as the most defensive of the property and casualty insurers....
...He was previously chief executive of Barclays Private Bank for Europe, Emea and Monaco. Rodney Cook has quit as chief executive of Just Group after a turbulent year for the life insurance company....
...Shipping companies warned that the risks to their operations are as high as they have been in more than a decade and that they face higher insurance costs....
...Henry Pryor, property expert @HenryPryor This year, I really am going to make a back-up file on a USB stick with all my passwords, bank accounts, a copy of my will and life insurance details for my family...
...It is how insurance companies get out of paying for medical treatment abroad because of “pre-existing conditions”....
...In a note on Monday, credit ratings agency Moody’s warned that primary property and casualty insurers, as well as reinsurers and alternative capital providers such as catastrophe bonds, are all likely to...
...The marketing power of drug companies and laissez-faire attitude of doctors has fuelled one of the worst public-health epidemics of modern times, which ended up proving ruinous for De La Rosa and millions...
...Given AIG’s particular troubles with property and casualty insurance, some analysts think it would be wise not to choose another person short of industry experience....
...“Insurance assessors are not stupid, and will have done their research before they come and visit.” Anyone considering letting out their property should also inform their mortgage lender....
...HSBC recently raised interest rates on some of its 2, 3 and 5-year fixed-rate home loans by up to 0.2 percentage points. This follows increases by Barclays, NatWest, Nationwide and Santander....
...Lindsay Cook is co-founder of MoneyFightClub.com, which offers online resources and consumer workshops....
...Nationwide and TSB also pay 5 per cent annual interest on limited balances....
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