2008 Special Report: U.S. Provider-Owned Health Plans – 2007 Financial Review. Overall, Gap Widens Between Most and Least Integrated Plans: A.M. Best’s 2007 Notching Model study results show that total capital and surplus for the study’s health plans increased 40% between 2004 and 2007, and 8% between 2006 and 007.
Date: 9/1/2008 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 8
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2008 Statistical Study: U.S. Property/Casualty -- 2007 Direct Premiums Written. by Line.: This statistical study presents the leading writers for U.S. property/casualty – 2007 direct premiums written by line.
Date: 8/18/2008 Source: Statistical Studies (PDF) Pages: 2
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2008 Special Report: U.S. Wildfires – Catastrophe Review. Wildfire Losses Set to Increase Industry’s Catastrophe Woes: After nearly $2 billion in claims from the Southern California wildfires in 2007, the insurance industry faces the prospect of another rough wildfire season and escalating losses in the years to come.
Date: 7/21/2008 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 12
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2008 Special Report: U.S. Hurricane – Catastrophe Review. Credit Crunch Clouds Outlook of Hurricane Insurers, Cat Funds: Turmoil in the credit markets could leave policyholders in limbo if a major hurricane strikes the United States this year, as investors show a limited appetite for capital-market offerings designed to raise cash for claims payments.
Date: 5/19/2008 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 14
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2008 Special Report: U.S. Property/Casualty – 1969-2007 Impairment Review. P/C’s Low Impairment Likely to Have Hit Bottom of Trough in 2007: The property/casualty industry recorded its lowest impairment count and the lowest impairment frequency rate in at least 38 years in 2007. Four property/casualty companies, two affiliated, became impaired, for an impairment rate of 0.12% – or one in 833 companies.
Date: 5/19/2008 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 61
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2008 Special Report: U.S. Health – 2007 GAAP Financial Review. Good Year Overall in 2007; But Income is Pressured in 2008: Across the board, GAAP results for health insurers were good in 2007, but some companies have already lowered their earnings guidance for 2008 as a result of lower interest rates and high claims experience from the winter’s flu season.
Date: 5/12/2008 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 8
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2008 Special Report: U.S. Mutual Accident & Health – 2007 Market Review. Mutual A&H Insurers Adapt to Changing Markets: U.S. mutual accident and health insurers must adapt and evolve to survive in a sector that that has driven many of them to niche positions in a world of health care dominated by managed care giants.
Date: 5/5/2008 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 8
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2008 Special Report: U.S. Property/Casualty – 2007 Financial Review. P/C Insurers Post Strong Results, First Drop in NPW Since 1943: Abstract quote: A strong fourth quarter capped another solid year for the U.S. property/casualty industry, but year-end 2007 results fell short of the record profits recorded in 2006.
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Date: 4/21/2008 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 8
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2008 Special Report: U.K. Protection & Indemnity Clubs – 2007/2008 Market Review. P&I Clubs Watch Claims Trends, Hone Underwriting, Boost Capital: Protection and indemnity clubs face a challenging underwriting environment: the International Group of P&I Clubs collectively has not made a technical profit in any financial year since 1999.
Date: 4/14/2008 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 7
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2008 Special Report: U.S. Provider-Owned Health Plans – 2007 Benchmarking Financial Review. Most Profitable Plans Linked with Strong Risk-Based Capital: A.M Best’s benchmarking study of 102 provider-owned health plans found a strong correlation between the most profitable companies and those with risk-based capital (RBC) scores. Two-thirds of those in the top quartile for profitability also were in the top RBC quartile.
Date: 4/7/2008 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 8
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2008 Special Report: U.S. Group Disability Income – 2007 Trend Review. Economic Woes Could Further Squeeze Group Disability Writers: The low interest-rate environment poses challenges for group disability income carriers. Competition in this market continues to be aggressive, with a moderate increase in mergers and acquisition over the past few years.
Date: 4/7/2008 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 6
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2008 Special Report: U.S. Auto – 2007 Massachusetts Market Review. Competition to Accelerate in Changing Mass. Personal Auto Market: Average Massachusetts automobile premiums are among the highest in the nation, but on April 1, 2008, the commonwealth’s “fixed-and-established” system of settling private passenger automobile insurance rates ends and the industry transitions to “managed competition.”
Date: 3/31/2008 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 7
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2008 Special Report: U.S. Life/Health – 2007 Rating Trend Review. Despite the Turmoil, Positive Rating Trends Continued in 2007: For the fifth year in a row, health rating upgrades easily outpaced downgrades in 2007, and for the first time in recent memory, life rating upgrades also were higher than downgrades.
Date: 2/11/2008 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 8
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2008 Special Report: U.S. Property/Casualty – 2007 Rating Trend Review. Upgrades Outweigh Downgrades with Strong P/C Industry Results: Rating trends in the U.S. property/casualty industry have improved steadily since earlier this decade, when nearly 10% of rating actions resulted in downgrades of rated entities.
Date: 2/11/2008 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 9
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2008 Special Report: U.S. Property/Casualty – Review & Preview. U.S. P/C Industry Records Strong Results – But for How Long?: Strong underwriting results and favorable investment returns are expected to generate 2007 net income of $59.2 billion for the U.S. property/casualty industry.
Date: 1/28/2008 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 28
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2008 Special Report: Insurance Stock Indexes – 2007 Trend Review. ‘AMBG’ Gains 36% in Three Years: Global insurance stocks as measured by the “AMBG” – A.M. Best’s flagship index of insurance stocks – advanced by 2.2% in 2007.
Date: 1/28/2008 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 20
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2008 Special Report: U.S. Health – Review & Preview. Health Insurers’ Financial Results Will Be Tested As Markets Evolve: Despite competitive pressures, health insurers and managed care companies have maintained strong earnings in recent years because of stable medical cost trends, improved case management and technology efficiencies. Insurers, though, will have to navigate a challenging operating landscape in 2008.
Date: 1/21/2008 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 16
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2008 Special Report: Earthquake – Catastrophe Review. Awareness Grows That Moderate Quakes Could Devastate Europe: This study provides historical perspective on European earthquakes and the insurance industry, as well as an examination of the ability of the insurance industry and the public to absorb losses from a “major” or “great” earthquake.
Date: 1/7/2008 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 24
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2007 Special Report: U.S. Property/Casualty – 9-Month Financial Review. U.S. P/C Industry Set to Post Another Underwriting Profit: Underwriting profits and investment returns drove a 4.4% increase in net income for the U.S. property/casualty industry through the first nine months of 2007, as the sector’s results withstood increasing competition. The U.S. industry is on course to report only its third underwriting profit since 1978.
Date: 12/31/2007 Source: Special Reports (PDF) Pages: 12
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2007 Statistical Study: U.S. Health – 2006 Medicare HMO Profitability: This statistical study presents the Medicare HMO profitability for 2006 as ranked by Medicare premiums.
Date: 12/24/2007 Source: Statistical Studies (PDF) Pages: 4
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