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...Allstate’s 2Q underwriting results (as measured by its “combined ratio”) highlights what can happen when weather and economic conditions turn against property and casualty insurers....
...Mayhem persists among the US’s property and casualty insurers. Auto-insurance businesses are still losing money....
...The US property and casualty insurance industry has suffered through a summer of devastating thunderstorms on the continent....
...The US property and casualty (P&C) industry recorded a $26.5bn net underwriting loss in 2022, says rating agency AM Best....
...Big insurers such as State Farm and Allstate said recently they had suspended offering home insurance to new customers in California....
...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...
...Early estimates have pegged potential insured losses from Hurricane Ida at between $15bn and $25bn. All this should be bad news for property and casualty insurers....
...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....
...MMC in May took legal action against rival NFP Property & Casualty Services in the US over the departure of 13 former JLT staff....
...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....
...tax to product liability, medical negligence, insurance and bankruptcy....
...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...
...In the middle, the company has further debt at intermediate holding companies — such as “Altice Luxembourg”, an entity that sits above the company’s French and international businesses and has €6.2bn of...
...ZhongAn Online Property & Casualty Insurance has priced its initial public offering at HK$59.70, raising $1.5bn, according to people familiar with the deal....
...China listed its first major fintech company in 2017 with the listing of ZhongAn Online Property and Casualty Insurance in September, which raised $1.5bn....
...Both companies provide property and casualty cover in the state, writes Alistair Gray in New York....
...However, you could say there are climate refugees, in the form of property and casualty reinsurers and their competitors from the capital markets fighting each other for shrinking premium revenues and that...
...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....
...Investors in the biggest US property and casualty insurers were initially relatively relaxed about the impact of the disaster on the industry....
...Ben McKay, senior vice-president of federal government relations for the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, said: “Property casualty insurers are not highly leveraged or interconnected and...
...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....
..., as well as property and casualty insurers and pension funds....
...Lloyd Thompson....
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