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| The National Association of Insurance Commissioners Life Actuarial Task Force is considering reinvestment guardrails for group annuities supporting pension risk transfer deals with the goal of better reflecting the actual investments.
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| Zurich Insurance Group Ltd. and Beazley plc agreed in principle to an £8 billion ($11 billion) deal that leverages Beazley's Lloyd's presence as part of a worldwide specialty underwriting platform.
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| The industry needs to focus on regulatory and legislative legal reform countrywide to improve automobile insurance rates and affordability, according to Allstate Corp. Chair, President and Chief Executive Officer Tom Wilson.
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| Data centers are a global growth opportunity for Chubb Ltd. and the rest of the insurance market worldwide with many announced projects, said its chief executive officer.
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| The decision to institute a 90-day suspension of new sales activity at Prudential of Japan could result in a hit to 2026 earnings of as much as $350 million, Prudential Financial Inc. Chief Financial Officer Yanela Frias said.
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| MetLife's U.S. head said paid family leave insurance stands to make up a bigger share of the group benefits business as it expands to more states across the country.
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| The Federal Trade Commission’s settlement with pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts Inc. will have a minimal impact on margins, according to the Cigna Group, which saw fourth-quarter net income total $1.23 billion.
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| Willis Towers Watson sees strong growth in the commercial broking market as the group seeks to consolidate or close on a number of acquisitions, its chief executive officer said.
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| Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. is coordinating its resources to take advantage of the "huge amounts of cover" needed to build new data centers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Pat Gallagher said during an earnings conference call.
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| Markel Group Inc. posted higher fourth-quarter net income as it closed a year of big structural changes capped byits exit from the $1.2 billion global reinsurance business, its chief executive officer said.
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| Radian Group Inc. becomes a global multiline specialty carrier with its $1.67 billion acquisition of Lloyd's specialty insurer Inigo Ltd., according to Chief Executive Officer Rick Thornberry.
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| Selective Insurance Group Inc. increased commercial automobile casualty loss cost by nearly 6% and upped its commercial auto liability expected severity trend to about 10%, President and Chief Executive Officer John Marchioni said during an earnings conference call.
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| Kemper Corp. swung to an $8 million loss in the fourth quarter from a $97.4 million net income a year earlier, stung by higher automobile claims frequency and severity and a $35 million excess-profits refund in Florida.
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| Liability claims severity trends seem to be leveling off, improving the carrier's ability to price coverage, according to Hanover Insurance Group Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer John "Jack" Roche. Claims are also moving faster through the courts, minus the post-COVID backlog.
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| Scor SE cited a competitive pricing environment for a selective approach to Jan. 1 property/casualty reinsurance renewals as it recorded modest gross premium income growth in traditional reinsurance and a double-digit alternative solutions increase.
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| American Financial Group Inc.'s fourth-quarter net earnings increased to $299 million from $255 million a year earlier, boosted by a 41% underwriting profit increase in its specialty property/casualty operations, said Co-Chief Executive Officers Carl H. Lindner III and S. Craig Lindner.
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| RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. swung to a fourth-quarter net profit as it expanded and diversified its reinsurance business even as property catastrophe rates fell at Jan. 1 renewals, said its chief executive officer.
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| Hannover Re saw significant price declines in some areas at Jan. 1 renewals as the reinsurer reported an average risk-adjusted price drop of 3.2% as treaty renewal premium income in traditional property/casualty reinsurance rose 3.3%.
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| Jan. 1 reinsurance renewals revealed continued property price softening as Everest Group Ltd. deployed capital selectively while seeing growth in specialty lines, its chief executive officer said.
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| Sampo plc posted sharply higher fourth-quarter profit as the group's chief executive officer said digital and commercial lines advanced amid competitive pressure in certain areas.
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| (Includes Verisk's loss estimate data throughout.) Snow, ice, wind and freeze impacted more than 30 states during a winter storm event that started on Jan. 23, according to KCC, leaving insurers with $6.7 billion in estimated losses. Verisk's catastrophe and risk solutions group said insured property and automobile losses could reach $4 billion.
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| Mutual insurer USAA is lowering personal automobile rates an average 7% in Florida in May, although rates in a number of other states had continued to rise through year end.
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| Meiji Yasuda Group has completed its $2.3 billion acquisition of Banner Life Insurance Co. and William Penn Life Insurance Co. of New York, a deal that includes the U.S. term life and pension risk transfer business previously owned by Legal & General Group plc.
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| K2 Insurance Services said it acquired Rising Edge's management liability underwriting business and will form a new division rebranded as K2 Executive Risk Ltd.
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| A bill that would overhaul the California Fair Plan is being championed by the state insurance commissioner as vital reforms, but industry trade groups say it would cause the insurer of last resort’s policy count to grow at a faster rate.
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| The Massachusetts Division of Insurance approved a plan that will see three Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. Inc. affiliates convert to stock insurers, then merge.
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| More than 30 new insurance companies entered the New Hampshire market in 2025, which also saw 742 new producers and 45 new resident adjusters register in the state, the insurance department said.
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| Democrats in the Iowa House of Representatives released a bill that would ban insurers from using credit scores when underwriting or rating an automobile policy.
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| Perils AG raised its insurance loss estimate to A$1.51 billion ($1.05 billion) from A$1.1 billion for a series of convective storms on Australia's east coast in late October.
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| Stefan Holzberger, executive vice president and chief operating officer, AM Best, advises emerging leaders to determine use cases for artificial intelligence and where they can leverage technology to make their work more efficient and to price risk and handle claims more effectively. He spoke with AM Best TV at the 2026 Emerging Leaders Conference in Nashville.
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Research |
Following years of consistent and substantial growth, the flow of business from admitted insurance carriers into the U.S. excess and surplus (E&S) lines market has shown signs of tapering off, according to a new AM Best report.
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Members of AM Best’s insurance ratings division will share their views on the European insurance and reinsurance markets at its annual market briefing taking place in Paris on Tuesday, 10 March 2026. Florence Lustman, president of the French Insurance Federation, will deliver comments during the half-day morning programme.
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