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Personal Lines Underwriting Results Improve, Reducing Gap With Commercial Lines

Triple-I: Homeowners Insurance

property and casualty insurance industry experienced better-than-expected economic and underwriting results in the first half of 2024, according to the latest forecasting report by Triple-I and Milliman. points year-over-year improvement, with commercial lines continuing to outperform personal lines.

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Does a sagging floor constitute a “collapse”? Court finds ambiguity in “collapse.”

The Property Insurance Law Observer

Harleysville Insurance Company , 2024 WL 3792261 (D. 2024), the District Court of Massachusetts found that “collapse” provisions within a commercial property policy were ambiguous where a floor merely sagged without completely falling to the ground. Underwriters at Lloyd’s, London , 2012 WL 2020168 (D. Great Am.

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The Pressures of Operational Optimization

Majesco

If we don’t get down to addressing the loss ratio — underwriting, pricing, risk selection, and claims management — for many carriers, even if they cut costs by 100%, they’re still not going to be profitable. This isn’t just because of the size of their expense ratio. Here is a positive trend, for example.