Aon Benfield expects an upswing in the U.S. homeowners insurance market

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This indicates that home insurers could be aligned to start seeing improvements in their returns. According to Aon Benfield, the current trend of improvement overall in homeowners insurance returns for this year was, in part, driven by a boost in prospective levels in the rates for premiums, and that the improvements are likely to continue. The insurer also said that the estimated catastrophe ratio has experienced a notable decline. The reason that ratio has declined is that there have been updates implemented for the vendor catastrophe models that were utilized…

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Allstate eyes return to homeowners insurance business

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Allstate beginning to make changes to business plan Allstate, one of the largest insurance companies in the U.S., is looking to get back into the homeowners insurance business. CEO Tom Wilson has announced that the company is working to improve customer loyalty after consolidating several independent agencies, acquiring smaller insurance providers, and a rate increase spree. Part of this effort is to begin expanding its flagging homeowners insurance business, which has shrunk by more than 1 million policies over the last four years. Homeowners insurance business may yield high returns…

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