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The rise and fall of the P&C industry’s financial results

January 22, 2024 by David Gambrill

As the Alan Parson Project once sang, “What goes up, must come down,” and predictions about industry profitability made two years ago are unfortunately coming true — including a marked downward trend of financial results in 2023, says one veteran

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Why broker commissions are going down

January 3, 2024 by David Gambrill

Broker commissions in Canada’s property and casualty insurance industry were down by about 5% to 7% in personal lines last year, as noted in the Canadian Council of Insurance Regulators’ 2022 Annual Statement on Market Conduct Public Report. In personal

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What’s behind Aviva Canada’s 2023 Q1 growth

June 12, 2023 by David Gambrill

Aviva Canada grew its overall property and casualty gross written premiums (GWP) by 9% in 2023 Q1, largely on the strength of rate increases, a benign catastrophe season, and despite the fact claims frequency is increasing to pre-pandemic levels. In

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How the reinsurance sector netted out after renewals

March 23, 2023 by David Gambrill

Inflation took a small bite of out of global reinsurers’ generally profitable combined ratios, and rising interest rates made a 27% dent in the reinsurers’ shareholder equity, but overall the global reinsurance sector came out of 2022 in decent shape,

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Why Deloitte doesn’t anticipate a soft market ‘for the next few years’

August 15, 2022 by David Gambrill

Canada’s commercial P&C insurance market may not soften “for the next few years,” said a report on the industry published by Deloitte. “While there may be products where the market becomes more competitive on new business with good claims experience,

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Who was the world’s biggest brokerage in 2021?

June 7, 2022 by David Gambrill

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the biggest brokerage of them all? Marsh McLennan, with revenue of US$9.5 billion and a global market share of approximately 15.4% in 2021, said a new report by Insuramore, a London, U.K.-based insurance and

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Winners and losers of the COVID-19 quarter

September 24, 2020 by David Gambrill

Although COVID-19 infected the underwriting results of the entire P&C insurance industry, it did not affect all insurance organizations equally, as recent data released by MSA Research shows. “The overall picture that emerges at the end of June is one

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Aviva Canada’s approach to navigating the economic recession

August 7, 2020 by David Gambrill

Whether or not an economic recovery in Canada is just around the corner — speculation of which is fuelled by the developments in researching a COVID-19 vaccine — Aviva Canada is committed to sticking to its three-year financial targets established

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COVID’s impact on Aviva’s first-half results

August 6, 2020 by David Gambrill

Aviva Canada overcame high claims costs related to pandemic losses and severe-weather catastrophe events in Alberta to trim its combined operating ratio (COR) down from 98.1% in the first half of 2019 to 95.5% during the first half of this

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Cats a significant driver in Everest Re Group’s posting US$639.4 million net loss in 2017 Q3

October 31, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

Losses from hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria (HIM) and the Mexico City earthquake contributed to Everest Re Group, Ltd. posting a US$639.4 million net loss for 2017 Q3 compared to net income of US$295.4 million for the prior-year quarter. For the

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Hurricanes expected to deliver 1.4 billion euro hit to Munich Re in third quarter, total tally estimated at 2.7 billion euros

October 26, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

Exceptional major-loss expenditure related to hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria (HIM) are expected to result in Munich Re posting a loss of 1.4 billion euros in 2017 Q3, reducing the (re)insurer’s previously anticipated full-year profit. Emphasizing that current estimates “are

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Global reinsurers’ first-half 2017 results reflect pricing pressure, consolidation expected: Fitch

August 21, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

Global reinsurers’ first half 2017 results provide further evidence of continuing pressure on pricing and earnings, Fitch Ratings said in a report released on Monday. “Intense competition among global reinsurers and the abundance of capital invested in the sector mean