1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (331+ words) Commercial property pricing fell 8.1% in the second quarter of 2026, deepening from a 7.1% decline in the first quarter and marking the fifth consecutive quarter of negative pricing, according to The Baldwin Group’s Q2 2026 Market Pulse report. Baldwin said primary pricing, reinsurance and…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (137+ words) Gallagher also cautioned that code compliance should not be equated with adequate protection, since building codes establish minimum life safety requirements rather than optimal risk-mitigation strategies. The report cited several 2025 events to demonstrate how quickly conditions can worsen even in…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1025+ words) California workers’ compensation insurers recorded a pre-tax underwriting loss of 2.8% of earned premium in 2025, or roughly $431 million, a reversal from the 0.8% underwriting profit posted in 2024, according to the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California. Total loss payments in 2025 split…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (1197+ words) Roger Crombie is a United Kingdom-based columnist for Risk & Insurance®. He can be reached at [email protected]. Uncle Sam’s birthday has overshadowed a more significant event that took place 100 years earlier. Unnoticed in the brouhaha of the American celebrations was…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1611+ words) U.S. property claim volume fell 8.9% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2026 and ran 13.13% below the five-year average, according to Verisk Property and Restoration Solutions’ Q1 2026 Quarterly Property Report. That decline came despite significant winter storm activity across the eastern U.S. and a…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1153+ words) U.S. commercial insurance buyers saw price increases continue to moderate in the first quarter of 2026, with aggregate pricing rising just 2.5% compared with the same period a year earlier, according to WTW’s Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey (CLIPS). The survey measured prices…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago   (669+ words) U.S. counties face aggregate uninsured residential flood loss exposure exceeding $375 billion under a 1-in-100-year flood scenario, with a nationwide insurance protection gap of more than 65%, a structural shortfall that Moody’s Ratings warns in a new report poses significant and growing…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1583+ words) Global construction activity is expected to grow from roughly $16 trillion in 2025 to nearly $22 trillion by 2030, fueled by data center buildouts, energy transition investments and resilient infrastructure demand, the report found. That growth is reshaping insurance needs across property, professional liability,…...

4+ mon, 13+ hour ago   (716+ words) Only one named storm made landfall in the U.S. during the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season. Still there were 23 individual weather and climate disasters with at least $1 billion in damages, according to the independent scientific organization Climate Central. The total, direct cost of…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1499+ words) The survey drew more than 100 C-suite participants and over 350 total respondents from across the insurance and financial services industries. Property and casualty insurance executives told a different story. Discrete extreme weather events topped their near-term concerns at 22%, followed closely by…...