A year after recording the largest underwriting loss in the company’s 100-year history, State Farm eclipsed it in 2023. The underwriting loss figure climbed to $14 billion for 2023, with a nearly $5 billion underwriting loss for property lines outpacing …
Shares of Progressive Corp. fell the most since 2000 after the insurance company released second quarter results that missed analysts’ estimates. The stock tumbled by about 13% on Thursday, following the report that its combined ratio — a measure of …
The U.S. property/casualty industry is expected to report that 2018 was its third consecutive year with an underwriting loss. A new A.M. Best analysis projects an estimated net underwriting loss of $12.1 billion in 2018, which follows a $25.3 billion …
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said Friday that its third-quarter profit fell 43 percent because of a $1.4 billion insurance underwriting loss from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria and earthquakes in Mexico. The Omaha, Nebraska-based conglomerate owns Geico and several …
Private U.S. property/casualty insurers suffered a $4.7 billion net underwriting loss in 2016-following an $8.9 billion net underwriting gain in 2015-and experienced a 25 percent drop in net income after taxes to $42.6 billion from $56.8 billion a year earlier, …
Risk retention groups reported an underwriting loss but a net income gain in the first half of 2012, according to a review of their financial data by actuarial firm Demotech. RRGS continued to grow and improved their combined ratio in …