US Insurance Sector Outlook 2026: Returns, Risk & Reform
US insurance sector outlook for 2025-2026: capital strength, social inflation risks, P&C returns peak, Florida reforms, life insurance resilience and alt capital trends
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US insurance sector outlook for 2025-2026: capital strength, social inflation risks, P&C returns peak, Florida reforms, life insurance resilience and alt capital trends
Triple-I and Milliman forecast the US P&C industry’s lowest net combined ratio in more than 10 years for 2025, helped by a quiet hurricane season
Fitch Ratings expects U.S. P&C insurers to post resilient results in 2026, with softer profitability, stable capital, and rising legal and claims pressure
P&C insurance prices are falling in Europe and the US, with the UK and Ireland easing completely, claims pressure is rising, and France continues to tighten
Insurance stocks fell in Q3 while the S&P 500 gained nearly 7%. P&C names lagged, with analysts calling the quarter underwhelming after 2024’s strong run
Global property and casualty insurance market has doubled over the last two decades, reaching $2.4tn, according to Swiss Re Institute
The U.S. property and casualty (P&C) insurance sector is projected to remain profitable through 2026, driven by strong performance in private auto underwriting
U.S. P&C insurance industry entered 2025 with a mixed underwriting outlook, according to the Insurance Economics and Underwriting Projections
Lightning causes significant fire risk to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), resulting in annual damages of several billion dollars
Wider natural catastrophe exposure continues to pressure financial results across the property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry
Canada insurance market saw further rate declines in 2024, with property, casualty, financial, and cyber lines experiencing reductions. Property insurance rates fell 3%
U.S. P&C market in 2024 is expected to show improved underwriting results, according to the Insurance Economics and Underwriting
Los Angeles wildfires to be a major catastrophic event for the insurance industry. Analysts indicate that the re/insurance sector remains well-capitalized to manage losses
Cyber incidents, changes in climate, and business interruption are the chief risk concerns among key marketplace segments in the insurance industry
Statutory underwriting performance in the U.S. property and casualty insurance industry saw strong revenue growth, a return to underwriting profits in 2024
Hurricane Milton is not likely to affect credit for rated property and casualty insurers and global reinsurers given very strong capital levels
Primary insurers have varying levels of exposure to climate risk, with the property and casualty insurance markets in the US and Japan identified as the most sensitive
Artificial intelligence promises to revolutionize how P&C insurance business gets done. The exact ways AI will influence business are unknown
US P&C insurance industry continued to generate significant underwriting losses in 2024 despite strong premium growth
The intensity and spread of inflation is sending insurance claims costs soaring. Strong rate hardening in US commercial insurance lines and acceleration in personal lines rates
Reinsurance market — a critical piece of Florida’s property-insurance system — is improving as Florida insurers try to bounce back
The value of the worldwide market for insurance broking in terms of fees and commissions earned was around USD 151.4 billion
The P&C insurance industry has experienced challenges in recent years due, in large part, to increases in the frequency and severity of natural catastrophes
US property and casualty P&C industry underwriting results are likely to improve in 2024 as premium rates rise significantly in underperforming auto
2024 will be a difficult year for the US P&C industry: claims severities surged with inflation, natural catastrophe losses were elevated for a sixth straight year
A hard market, higher reinsurance costs and ongoing low M&A activity are in the cards for property and casualty insurers in the new year