Archive

  • Who's to blame for the US insurance crisis?

    01 September 2023

    Is the growing US property insurance crisis caused by greedy insurers or sleepy regulators? Sarfraz Thind speaks to industry and consumer groups to get their perspectives

  • Legal abuse and fraud, not natcats, threaten stability of US property insurers

    25 August 2022

    North American re/insurers have warned of a catastrophe that could bankrupt the insurance industry - and it's nothing to do with hurricanes or earthquakes, as Josh Geer reports

  • Covid-19 reveals the cracks in the US insurance system

    20 April 2020

    US insurers have been getting a beating in their response to the Covid-19 crisis. Their latest move to rebate auto premiums shows the fissures in their approach and the lack of a cohesive regulatory response. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • US motor insurers return $800m in premiums to customers hit by Covid-19

    07 April 2020

    Allstate and American Family move comes as lobbyists pressure insurance industry