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...The US property and casualty insurance industry has suffered through a summer of devastating thunderstorms on the continent....
...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....
...Rob Francis, who runs healthcare underwriting at ProAssurance, a US property and casualty insurer, reels off a list of this year’s payouts, including $230m a Baltimore hospital was to ordered to pay in July...
...Property and casualty cover is seen as a far more natural home....
...Exane likes Sampo and Lancashire as the most defensive of the property and casualty insurers....
...Shares of Travelers, one of the largest US property and casualty insurance companies, weighed on the broader Dow Jones Industrial Average with a drop of 3 per cent at the start of trading on Monday, after...
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the day flat at 21,808, thanks in part to a 2.5 per cent decline for property and casualty insurer Travelers — one of several insurers that took a leg lower as investors...
...Travelers, one of the biggest property and casualty insurers in the US, in March paid £400m for Simply Business, a UK-based small business insurer that had been sold for £120m just a year earlier....
...Mr Greenberg created the Chubb of today when in 2015 he struck the biggest deal in property and casualty insurance history. He was CEO of Ace, the Zurich-based insurer he joined in 2001....
...In one case, Travelers Indemnity, an insurance company, asked a federal court in 2014 to rule that a general liability policy it sold to PF Chang did not cover a breach of customer data at the US Chinese...
...Both companies provide property and casualty cover in the state, writes Alistair Gray in New York....
...Chubb will give Ace a bigger footprint in the US, where it is a leading middle-market underwriter for commercial property and casualty insurance....
...Hartford Financial, a smaller rival, jumped more than 6 per cent to a fresh seven-year high of $44.19 and Travelers Companies rose 2.73 per cent to $99.30....
...In property casualty insurance, periods of rising and falling premium rates, and therefore ups and downs in earnings and stock prices, come and go. In recent years, rates have been increasing....
...Hard times in property casualty insurance are a good thing....
...Last month’s purchase by Travelers of Canadian insurer Dominion at 1.5 times tangible net asset value also demonstrated the worth of having a foothold in Canada’s property and casualty insurance sector,...
...US property catastrophe insurance prices are up 7 per cent this year according to insurance advisory group Guy Carpenter....
...Since markets reopened, shares in top US property and casualty insurers have lost only 0.2 per cent more than the benchmark S&P 500 index....
...At $35, AIG’s shares still trade at about half the company’s book value while more profitable rivals in the insurance industry, such as Chubb, Travelers and ACE Limited, trade in line with or above book...
...Spinning off the Travelers property and casualty business was not the move of a sentimentalist....
...Over the last year, we understand that a number of AIG’s 100,000+ employees have left A.I.G. to join the company’s direct competitors in the global property and casualty and life insurance businesses....
...Citigroup was formed in 1998 from the merger of Travelers Group and Citicorp. In 2002, Citigroup gave up control of Travelers Property Casualty through a share listing and subsequent spin-off....
...By December 2001, Mr Weill even turned his back on a big part of his legacy, moving to spin off Citigroup’s Travelers property and casualty insurance arm – which had given Mr Weill his corporate name and...
...It is the largest insurance industry deal since St. Paul merged with Travelers in a $16bn deal in 2003....
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