Overview and Outlook for the P/C Insurance Industry: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities: Focus on Wisconsin Markets

This PowerPoint report, presented by Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Information Institute, before a meeting of the Fox Valley and Northern Wisconsin CPCU, provides an overview and outlook of trends, challenges and opportunities for the property/casualty (P/C) insurance industry, with a focus on Wisconsin. Sections provide a P/C insurance industry financial overview, noting that ROE growth is critical; a review of economic factors impacting growth, including a regional analysis and by line impacts; and a discussion of catastrophe loss trends. Other sections offer a P/C growth analysis, a look at reinsurance and growth of alternative capital, a discussion of investments and the challenge of persistently low interest rates, and a P/C performance analysis.