Florida Domestic Insurer Market Update – December 2024

In this article, we discuss how recent legislative reforms and improved market conditions have helped stabilize Florida’s homeowners insurance market, attracting new insurers and improving financial performance.

P&C Mutual Insurance Market Overview

In the following review we provide an update on the state of the P&C mutual insurance market based on 6 months 2024 financial results.

U.S. Life Insurers’ Bermuda Reinsurance Exposure

The U.S. Life Insurance Industry has long utilized foreign reinsurance as part of its risk and capital management strategies. In recent years the use of foreign reinsurance (particularly via Bermuda reinsurers) has

U.S. Surplus Lines – 2024

A.M. Best recently released its annual review of the surplus lines industry which it has published for the last three decades. ALIRT uses this opportunity to refresh its own 50 Company Surplus

BBB-rated Bond Exposure for Life Insurers

In this article, you’ll read about the significant increase in NAIC Class 2 bond holdings by U.S. life insurers since the 2008-2009 financial crisis, driven by a search for higher yields amidst

Advantage Capital and the Fallout from 777 Re

In this report we explore ACAP’s relationship with 777 Re and the possible lingering ties that the ACAP life insurers may have to this now defunct reinsurer and its parent company 777

U.S. Life Insurer Exposure to Less Liquid Bonds

Life insurers have long held a mix of assets with various liquidity profiles, from the very liquid to the nearly illiquid. In this review we highlight some of the less liquid components

A.M. Best Negative Rating Actions 2023 – 1Q2024

It is now common knowledge that calendar year 2023 was a difficult one for property insurers, whether those focused on personal lines (homeowners and auto physical damage) or commercial lines (fire and/or