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March 2025

Growing Clout of Independent Agents: In the competition for independent agents, carriers are turning to technology and expanding their communication efforts.

In This Issue

Technology, Communication Are Front and Center as Insurers Vie for Independent Agents’ Business

AM Best Reviews Potential Changes to Ratings Criteria Methodology for Fast-Growing Captives Categories

Lower-Cost Cell Captives Emerge as Groups’ Risk Management Program

ISSUES & ANSWERS: Specialty Coverage

What Insurance Marketers Should Know About Insurance Data

Market Watchers: Annuity Surrenders May Continue Their Momentum in 2025

Life Insurers’ Investment Complexity, Reliance on Offshore Reinsurers Raise Concerns About Stability

Oliver Wyman Partner: Private Capital, Asset Management Reshape Life Insurance Sector

AM Best: Outlook Remains Stable for India Non-Life Insurance Segment

AM Best: Data and Analytics Are Key to Insurance Industry’s Advancement

Emerging Leaders Panel: Tech Is the Great Equalizer in Insurance Industry

AM Best: Pet Insurance Evolving as Inland Marine Niche Business Post-Pandemic

Largest Published, Rated Single-Parent Captive Insurers – 2025 Edition

Largest India Insurers - 2025 Edition

Largest Multiperil Crop Insurers – 2025 Edition

Largest Private Crop Insurers – 2025 Edition

Navigating the Changing Homeowners Insurance Market

Independent Action

Lloyd’s Chief Executive Officer Announces Plans To Join Aon as Global CEO of Reinsurance, Global Climate Solutions Chairman

Web Traffic: Visits to India Insurer Sites

February 2025

In Pursuit of Innovation: For many insurers, innovation moves from ‘nice to have’ to core competency.

In This Issue

Insurers Discover Value in Innovation Culture

Lloyd’s Chief Commercial Officer: Accelerator Nurturing More Than 100 New Insurance Startups

Innovation Hubs Attract Interest, Support From Insurance Companies

Tech Panel: AI Will Displace Jobs but Also Create Opportunities for Upskilling

In Memoriam: Insurance Industry Leaders of 2024

Changes at the Top: Industry Leaders Announce Retirement Plans in 2024

Weekly Lunches and No Silos: A Life Insurance Chief Executive’s Hands-On Philosophy

Montana Insurance Commissioner Grants First ‘Sandbox Waiver’ to Workers’ Comp Program

Trust Re CEO: Regional Insurers Should Resist Foreign Expansion, Focus on Local Opportunities

Largest Surety Insurers – 2025 Edition

Largest MENA Insurers – 2025 Edition

‘Build vs. Buy’ in the Digital Age

Atari 2600 or iPhone? Innovation Can Spring From Unusual Sources

An Innovation Snapshot

Prudential Financial Names International Executive as Next CEO, Fills New Global Head of Insurance and Retirement Post

Web Traffic: Visits to MENA Insurer Sites

Claims Pressures, Inflation Drive US Personal, Commercial Lines

Product Delivery Is a Key Ingredient in Bakeries’ Recipe for Risk

USAA Hiking California Homeowners Rates In Move Prior to 2025 Los Angeles Fires

Uncovered: How Crises, Coverage Gaps Shaped the US Insurance Landscape

January 2025

Guide to Understanding the Insurance Industry: An overview for those working with and in one of the world’s most interesting and vital industries.

In This Issue

Reinsurance/Alternative Risk Transfer

Delegated Underwriting Authority Enterprises

Fiscal Fitness & AM Best

AM Best: Social Inflation, Driver Shortage, Inexperience Compound Commercial Auto Difficulties

AM Best: This Time, It’s Different for AI in Insurance in Tech Upswing

AM Best: Changing Trends Continue To Push Demand for Health Reinsurance

Cyber Panel Warns of Longer-Tail Business Interruption Risks Claims

Private Equity Seeks Liquidity, Growth From DUAE Investments

AM Best: Insurers Face Post-Pandemic Surge in US Nuclear Verdicts

World’s Largest Insurance Companies – 2025 Edition

Top 25 US Holding Companies – 2025 Edition

Top Global Brokers — 2025 Edition

Top 25 US Property/Casualty Writers – 2025 Edition

Top 25 US Property/Casualty Companies — 2025 Edition

US Property/Casualty – 2023 Direct Premiums Written by Line – 2025 Edition

Top 25 US Life/Health Insurers — 2025 Edition

December 2024

Lessons Learned: Since 1899, AM Best has maintained a laser focus on the insurance industry. From the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to the COVID-19 pandemic, AM Best’s core mission to provide unbiased, factual reports on insurers’ financial health has not changed.

In This Issue

Standing the Test of Time: Keys To Surviving and Thriving in Business

AM Best Through the Years

Top Audit and Actuarial Firms

Gauging New Risks, Auditors and Actuaries Examine Technology, Judgments, COVID-19’s Aftermath

ISSUES & ANSWERS: Life Reinsurance

For Some Insolvent Insurance Carriers, ‘Giving Away the Pen’ to MGAs May Have Contributed to Their Undoing

Why Insurers Believe Incubating Technology Helps Them Succeed

Canadian Life/Annuity Segment: Insurers Navigate Industry Challenges and an Uncertain Economy

AM Best: Gradual Increase in Insurers’ Private Equity Investments in 2023

Top 25 US Ocean Marine Writers – 2024 Edition

Top 25 US Inland Marine Writers – 2024 Edition

Top 25 US Fire and Allied Writers – 2024 Edition

US Fire and Allied Lines – Top Writers by State, Canada and US Territories – 2024 Edition

Professional Liability Coverage Sees Social Inflation Remaining

AM Best Through the Years

Lloyd’s Chair To Wind Up Eight-Year Term as Company Welcomes Former UK Treasury Official, Consultant as Successor in May 2025

Web Traffic: Visits to Largest US Inland Marine Insurance Sites

AM Best: FAIR Plan Policies Nearly Double in Five Years

Braking Bad: Faulty Parts, Poor Design Among Top Risks for Bike Manufacturers

Texas Regulator: TWIA’s 10% Rate Increase Proposal ‘Unjust’ and ‘Unfair’ to Coastal Property Owners

November 2024

Pushing Back the Risk Frontier: How Insurers Are Co-Opting the Insurtech Playbook: Insurers have found success in incubating, launching and managing technology in an evolving industry.