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Are you building business resilience?
Building business resilience is more crucial than ever, given today’s global risks and complex insurance marketplace.
Risk Strategies subject matter experts across our industry and insurance product line practices have collaborated to provide the knowledge and insights necessary to navigate the challenges and opportunities within the current market environment.
Risks are not going away and continue to evolve and become more complex. Understanding the trends and conditions in your business sector is key to developing a risk management strategy that ensures long-term resilience, profitability, and success.
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Executive Summary
Welcome to the 2025 Initial Outlook and 2024 Wrap-Up of the Risk Strategies State of the Insurance Market Report.
Proactive risk management and strategic planning are at the core of fostering business resilience. This report features insights from insurance experts in our specialty practices and product lines who work with clients every day to stay ahead of risk.
As we advance into the last quarter of 2024 and look ahead to 2025, the insurance market presents both challenges and opportunities across various lines of coverage.
We have the following key observations for the insurance landscape.
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The insurance market continues to face considerable challenges in catastrophic property and auto lines, which continue to experience historic loss levels. This situation affects the availability of insurance and affordability for clients.
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Despite challenges, some insurance lines such as management liability, cyber, and workers’ compensation remain stable. These areas have adequate capacity and consistent rates, particularly for organizations with effective risk management strategies in place and good risk profiles.
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Catastrophic weather events are significant drivers in the market, contributing to substantial losses. Additionally, inflation and rising costs, including interest rates and supply chain issues, are impacting overall insurance costs.
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There is an upward trend in claims costs, driven by economic factors and social inflation (including higher litigation expenses and nuclear verdicts). Employers also face rising medical expenses, which affect employee benefits programs and require more customized approaches.
Recommendations
Recognize that many factors impact risk.
View insurance as part of a strategic business framework, rather than a mere annual renewal process.
Explore various options across the insurance spectrum, align them with business vision, and make informed, long-term decisions.
This is essential to building a comprehensive risk management strategy that ensures business resilience.
Work with a specialty insurance broker to understand global risks and the potential impact to your business and personal assets.
Ideally, you want a partner that understands your industry and risk — a broker with deep experience in the core insurance product lines, and with highly trained experts who support clients in that segment, and who has the right relationships in the marketplace to do so. This will help protect what matters most to you, positively impacting your outcomes in the near-term, while building security and stability for the future.
We invite you to explore the State of the Insurance Market Report and contact our specialists.
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Our industry and product line specialists have collaborated to provide an update on current trends and market conditions. We invite you to explore their insights by downloading our latest State of the Insurance Market Report.
The contents of this report are for general informational purposes only and Risk Strategies Company makes no representation or warranty of any kind, express or implied, regarding the accuracy or completeness of any information contained herein. Any recommendations contained herein are intended to provide insight based on currently available information for consideration and should be vetted against applicable legal and business needs before application to a specific client.