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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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Will reinsurers pass rate increases to consumers?

July 20, 2023 Alyssa Di Sabatino

Reinsurers reached a tipping point during their January renewal cycle that saw primary insurers bearing larger-than-usual rate increases. Which had the industry asking: How much of these reinsurance increases will make their way down to consumers? And do insurers have

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Can cyber coverage recover from past high loss ratios?

March 20, 2023 Jason Contant

The Canadian cyber market in general has suffered some “pretty bad loss ratios in the last couple of years,” said Jack Bottomley, senior consultant for cybersecurity with KPMG in Canada. Not long ago, the industry saw its cyber loss ratio

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Why P&C industry profitability is trending toward positive

January 23, 2023 by Jason Contant

Canada’s property and casualty insurers should see increased overall profitability and premium rate increases as the industry’s 2023 outlook trends to positive, ratings firm DBRS Morningstar said in a new report. “The credit rating trend for the majority of DBRS

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Why Canadian P&C profitability is improving: AM Best

September 8, 2022 by Alyssa DiSabatino

Good overall underwriting results and solid risk-adjusted capitalization left the industry in a resilient position in 2021, despite the headwinds Canada’s P&C industry has faced in the last two-and-a-half years, according to AM Best’s Canada Market Segment Report.  Headwinds the

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How profitable was Canada’s P&C industry last year?

April 7, 2022 by Jason Contant

Last year saw the lowest-ever combined ratio in the Canadian P&C insurance industry, making it the third most profitable year for Canada’s P&C insurance industry since 1975, according to the Property and Casualty Insurance Compensation Corporation (PACICC). “The 2021 industry

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Say what you want about the hard market, it’s working

March 22, 2022 by David Gambrill

The hard market may be the biggest challenge facing the broker channel, according to Canadian Underwriter‘s 2022 National Broker Survey, but statistics show it’s vastly improved the P&C industry’s financial health. Canada’s property and casualty insurance industry reported an underwriting

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Canadian P&C industry’s financial results take a turn for the better

June 18, 2021 by David Gambrill

Canada’s property and casualty insurance industry reported a much sunnier financial picture in 2021 Q1 than it did during the same time last year, according to a recent quarterly report by the Property and Casualty Insurance Compensation Corporation (PACICC). Financial

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What’s unique to this hardened real estate insurance market

September 17, 2020 by Adam Malik

At the same time insurers have a reduced appetite to take on real estate risks, real estate developers during a pandemic-induced economic recession have an aversion to investing a lot of money into risk-reduction measures. These twin dynamics are a

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How profitable have Canadian P&C insurers been so far this year?

December 18, 2019 by Jason Contant

Canada’s property and casualty insurers posted moderate profitability in the first nine months of 2019, but poor underwriting results and high loss ratios linger, notes an executive from the Property and Casualty Insurance Compensation Corporation (PACICC). For Q3 2019 year-to-date

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What makes for a profitable brokerage in Canada?

August 16, 2019 by Jason Contant

When it comes to brokerage profitability, size matters. Common characteristics of the most profitable Canadian brokerages are laid out in a recent report from P&C advisory and consulting firm Smythe Advisory. The Property & Casualty Insurance Brokerage Report 2019 analyzes

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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