Susanne Sclafane

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2 04, 2025

Lemonade: 700K Customers on the Car Insurance Waitlist

By | April 2nd, 2025|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Lemonade: 700K Customers on the Car Insurance Waitlist

While Allstate’s CEO Tom Wilson named GEICO and Progressive when asked about the ability to grow auto insurance in 2025 as competitors do the same, no one on Allstate or Progressive’s earning calls addressed competition from Lemonade. The insurtech recently …

26 03, 2025

How Cincinnati Insurance Does E&S

By | March 26th, 2025|Uncategorized|Comments Off on How Cincinnati Insurance Does E&S

The Cincinnati Insurance Companies have grown business for 75 years through relationships with a carefully selected set of regional independent agents—and business in the surplus lines segment is no exception, executives report. That sets the insurer apart from other E&S …

17 01, 2025

Smoke, Coverage Issues Cloud Wildfire Forecast: $35-$45B Losses Insured

By | January 17th, 2025|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Smoke, Coverage Issues Cloud Wildfire Forecast: $35-$45B Losses Insured

CoreLogic announced a preliminary range of insured losses for the Eaton and Palisades Fires in Los Angeles of $35 billion to $45 billion, but there are a lot of factors that could change the numbers. “We don’t know,” Tom Larsen, …

15 11, 2024

Swiss Re Execs Sleeping Well After $2.4 Billion Q3 Reserve Boost

By | November 15th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Swiss Re Execs Sleeping Well After $2.4 Billion Q3 Reserve Boost

While a $2.4 billion boost in loss reserves for the third-quarter will help Swiss Re’s executives sleep better on a bigger cushion, across the industry, worsening trends in U.S. liability loss costs aren’t letting up, they said yesterday. In fact, …

7 06, 2024

Liability Reinsurance Crisis Could Be Looming, TransRe CEO Says

By | June 7th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Liability Reinsurance Crisis Could Be Looming, TransRe CEO Says

“There could be a liability crisis in reinsurance in a couple of years,” a reinsurance executive predicted this week. Ken Brandt, chair, president and chief executive officer of TransRe, offered the assessment during a 30-minute chat with S&P Global Ratings …

7 06, 2024

Social Inflation Fix: Insurers Can’t Be Out Front, Chubb’s Greenberg Says

By | June 7th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Social Inflation Fix: Insurers Can’t Be Out Front, Chubb’s Greenberg Says

Although insurers can help to stop the growth of social inflation, they can’t lead the effort, an industry executive said during an insurance conference this week. Evan Greenberg, chair and chief executive officer of Chubb Limited, explained that social attitudes …

6 06, 2024

Social Inflation Fix: Insurers Can’t Be Out Front, Chubb’s Greenberg Says

By | June 6th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Social Inflation Fix: Insurers Can’t Be Out Front, Chubb’s Greenberg Says

Although insurers can help to stop the growth of social inflation, they can’t lead the effort, an industry executive said during an insurance conference this week. Evan Greenberg, chair and chief executive officer of Chubb Limited, explained that social attitudes …

9 05, 2024

Progressive Set to ‘Maximize’ Growth, Building on Q1

By | May 9th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Progressive Set to ‘Maximize’ Growth, Building on Q1

When Progressive’s chief executive officer weighed the words that should go into the management discussion section of the company’s first-quarter 10-Q report, she considered two possibilities to describe anticipated growth for the balance of 2024. “Was ‘maximize’ growth the right …

19 04, 2024

Uncertainty Keeps Prices Up; No Prior-Year Loss Development: Travelers

By | April 19th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Uncertainty Keeps Prices Up; No Prior-Year Loss Development: Travelers

With its personal lines business benefiting from the impact of rate increases earning into the book, and the commercial lines insurance premium changes staying in double-digits, Travelers reported $1.1 billion in net income for the first quarter. Still, it was …

22 09, 2023

‘Hard But More Manageable’ Jan. 1 Renewals; Little Relief on Retentions

By | September 22nd, 2023|Uncategorized|Comments Off on ‘Hard But More Manageable’ Jan. 1 Renewals; Little Relief on Retentions

The hard reinsurance market in property-catastrophe reinsurance isn’t coming to an end at Jan. 1, 2024, but reinsurers are likely to deploy more of their capacity next year, broker executives said recently. Dorothée Mélis-Moutafis, North American brokering executive at Guy …