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A Solution For The Constant Price Hikes In Commercial Insurance

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June 22, 2021
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Global commercial insurance pricing jumped by 18% in the first quarter (Q1) of 2021, according to Marsh’s latest Global Insurance Market Index, marking 14 consecutive quarters of price increases. This is the longest stretch of consecutive price increases since Marsh began publishing the index in 2012.

Things do seem to be moderating slightly, with the average rate of increase dropping 4% from the 22% recorded in the final quarter of 2020 – a trend experienced in most geographies around the world. In the first quarter, the UK had a composite pricing increase of 35% (down from 44% in Q4) and the pacific region had an increase of 29% (down from 35% in Q4). Further, the rate of increase in the US was 14% (down from 17%), in Asia 8% (down from 11%), and in Latin America and the Caribbean 5% (down from 9%).

Marsh attributed the slightly lower price increases to improved rating stability in property insurance, as well as financial and professional lines. Global property insurance pricing was up an average of 15%, down from the 20% increase in Q4 2020. Meanwhile, casualty pricing was up 6% on average, from 7% in Q4, and pricing in financial and professional lines had the highest rate of increase among major insurance product categories at 40%, compared to 45% in Q4.

While the average price increases may have dipped, the increases themselves are still significant – especially after 14 consecutive quarters of upward change. This challenging insurance marketplace has driven many companies to consider alternative risk transfer solutions in order to reduce costs. Captives, in particular, have proven to be popular in recent years. These programs enable organisations to control their costs and improve their margins by increasing their risk retention and taking greater control of their insurance programs.

“It’s not difficult to see the correlation between a challenging insurance market and increased premiums into captives. At a simplistic level, it’s all boats rising,” said Lorraine Stack, international sales and advisory leader, Marsh Captive Solutions. “What’s happening is fascinating because it really highlights that captives and commercial insurers are all part of the same ecosystem, and really how interactive and interconnected the two areas of the ecosystem are.

“What we’re seeing is that companies who formed captives still buy insurance. They’re still operating in the insurance market, they’re just doing so in a more strategic and cost-efficient way. It’s not like there’s a flight of premium from the commercial insurance market into captives. In fact, what’s happening is that companies are actually looking to find that value and the inflection points (to determine) the right balance between risk retention and risk transfer – and most of them are using analytics to underpin those decisions.”

In particular, companies around the world are looking at their property programs, and their directors & officers (D&O) liability programs to see whether they can transfer some of that risk via a captive in order to free up capacity elsewhere. Increasingly, especially in the case of D&O insurance, companies are using what’s known as rent-a-cell captives (also known as protected cell captives), where they get the benefits of the traditional single-parent or wholly-owned insurance company captive, without the upfront costs, capital investment, or significant maintenance costs associated with forming and managing a wholly-owned captive.

“With D&O, the (average) 50% premium increase this year is on top of the 25% premium increase that we saw last year – and it’s just going up and up. What’s really happening on D&O is that you have companies who are putting a higher retention of their Side B and Side C coverage into a captive, which allows them to purchase more Side A coverage in the commercial insurance market,” explained Stack.

“We’ve also seen companies who can’t get Side A D&O coverage in the commercial insurance marketplace (and there are some that) start looking at cell captives (to transfer that risk), potentially enabling them to get coverage for Side B and Side C in the marketplace. We have a number that we’re forming in Bermuda, we’re actively forming a Side A D&O cell in Guernsey, and we’re very close to forming one in Malta as well. Of course, the timeline with all of this is critical. In the US, you can form a cell very quickly – in up to four weeks – and it’s possibly even quicker in Guernsey or Bermuda. It takes a bit longer in Malta because we’re still in a Solvency Two regime there, so it might take two or three months, but it’s still much faster than forming a single-parent captive.”

Source: Insurance Business America By Bethan Moorcraft
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