More than lucky as RSA profits jump 24 per cent

Evening News - Scotland;  August 10, 2006 ;     257 words ......2006 guidance of a combined ratio of around 95 per cent for the group. He said...commercial business saw a combined ratio of 92.4 per cent from 90.8 per cent...meant the overall UK combined ratio was 91.5 per cent, an improvement on...

Lloyd's sees profits rocket by 127 per cent

Evening News - Scotland;  April 8, 2004 ;     444 words ......Prettejohn said Lloyd's combined ratio had fallen to 90.7 per cent from 98.6 per cent in 2002 and was outperforming...international peer group. The combined ratio measures claims and...compares with an average combined ratio of 101.2 per cent for United States...

Something's gotta give.: when the industry chalks up a combined ratio of...

Canadian Underwriter;  May 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......good year. An ROE of 3 per cent, which is whittled down...Claims growth of 11.6 per cent outpaced the 7.8 per cent premium growth for 2001, producing a 2.7 per cent increase in the loss ratio...preliminary IBC statistics). The combined ratio increased to 110.3 per cent from ...

Paul Haigh: Decimated, but only by ten per cent.(Sports)

The Racing Post (London, England);  July 27, 2000 ;     639 words ...TEN per cent may not sound very much. It's only what your...used to have to pay on every bet. Ten per cent off the price of an item wouldn't normally...gimme, gimme just because he's seen 10 per cent extra free on a bar of chocolate or a can...

Boom & doom; Scots house values soar by 16 per cent as pricey South faces...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  January 3, 2003 ;     662 words ......HOUSE prices across Scotland rose by 16 per cent last year - the highest growth rate since...last year - an increase of about 25.3 per cent. The figure for Scotland was just pound...Scotland are expected to rise around 10 per cent in 2003, but the study predicts London...

82 Per cent want a referendum on the constitution

The Spectator;  April 26, 2003 ;     625 words ...Only 15 per cent of people in Britain are aware that the EU is drafting a constitution. That's up 5 per cent from the month before (our YouGov poll for...things it might contain. Thirty-nine per cent approved of the general idea of creating...

Swiss Re introduces new combined ratio

Canadian Underwriter;  May 1, 2006 ;     225 words ......introduced a new dimension to the conventional combined ratio, called the "economic combined ratio" [ECR]. According to Swiss Re, the ECR...advantages when compared to the conventional combined ratio: * The ECR isolates the underwriting results...

European plastics demand up 6 per cent. (Materials Marketplace).(Brief...

British Plastics & Rubber;  July 1, 2000 ;     500 words ...EUROPEAN demand for thermoplastics increased 6 per cent during 1999 to more than 30 million tonnes...PS, PVC and PET -- account for around 93 per cent of demand, and their share was up 6.4 per cent to more than 28 million tonnes in 1999. The...

Chubb Reports First Quarter Net Income per Share of $1.58 After 2-for-1...

PR Newswire;  April 24, 2006 ;     700+ words ......4 in 2005. This was by far the best combined ratio and most profitable quarter in Chubb...Catastrophes had virtually no impact on the combined ratio in the first quarter of 2006. Catastrophe...and accounted for 0.6 points of the combined ratio. The expense ratio for the first ...

Chubb Reports 4th Quarter Net Income of $2.39 per Share; Operating Income...

PR Newswire;  February 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......reserve strengthening in both years, the combined ratio for the fourth quarter was 88.1 in...million (0.4 percentage points of the combined ratio) in 2004, compared to $32.5 million...Chubb Re, premiums increased 8. The combined ratio for 2004 was 92.3 -- the best combined...

Chubb Reports First Quarter Net Income of $360.7 Million or $1.88 Per...

PR Newswire;  April 26, 2004 ;     700+ words ......accounted for 3.5 points of the combined ratio. In the first quarter of 2003, catastrophe...accounted for 4.1 points of the combined ratio. Excluding catastrophe losses, the first quarter combined ratio was 89.1 in 2004 and 91.2 in 2003...

Terrorism losses to hike combined ratio up to 120. (Late Breaking...

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management;  November 26, 2001 ;     634 words ......insurance industry a record-poor year-end combined ratio of 119.9, according to the Insurance...City-based ISO said that the projected 2001 combined ratio--the percentage of each premium dollar...Sept. 11 alone have deteriorated the combined ratio by 6.3 points for the calendar ...

Exports rise by record 11.8 per cent in Japan

China Daily;  November 26, 2004 ;     537 words ...Japanese exports rose 11.8 per cent to a record in October, led by steel, ships...trillion yen (US$11.3 billion), 8.8 per cent higher than a year earlier. From the previous month, exports rose 3.2 per cent, seasonally adjusted, after falling 2.4...

Combined Ratio News No Good.

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management;  March 29, 1999 ;     102 words ...The 1998 combined ratio for the property-casualty insurance...N.J.-based A.M. Best. The 105.6 combined ratio was 4.0 points worse than 1997...said the industry's normalized combined ratio of 101.3, which excludes catastrophes...

House prices on rise again; PROPERTY: Home inflation at 1.8 per cent in...

Birmingham Mail (England);  January 16, 2006 ;     287 words ...HOUSE prices rose by 0.6 per cent during November, wiping out falls recorded...the month, following a drop of 0.6 per cent in October, according to the Office of...inflation picked up slightly to reach 2.5 per cent for the year to the end of November...