United States Property and Casualty Insurance Market - Growth, Trends, COVID-19 Impact, and Forecasts (2021 - 2026)

The US property and casualty insurance market is expected to register a CAGR of approximately 6% during the forecast period.

• Nine months of 2019 delivered solid underwriting gains and brought the industry surplus to a new record. Net written premium growth seems small when compared against the unusually high nine months 2018 level, but the two-year average growth rate is the strongest in years. The US property and casualty insurance industry saw its net underwriting gains increase to USD 5.4 billion in the first nine months of 2019 from USD 4.7 billion a year earlier. The industry’s surplus grew in every quarter of 2019 so far, reaching a new all-time-high value of USD 812.2 billion as of September 30, 2019, after USD 802.2 billion as of June 30, 2019 and USD 742.1 billion as of December 31, 2018.
• In the first nine months of 2019, earned premiums grew by 4.7% to USD 463.2 billion, while LLAE (Losses and loss adjustment expenses) grew 5.5% to USD 327.1 billion; other underwriting expenses grew by 2.3% to USD 129.2 billion, and policyholders’ dividends increased to USD 1.6 billion from USD 1.5 billion a year earlier. As a result, the industry reported a USD 5.4 billion net underwriting gain, up from the USD 4.7 billion net underwriting gain for nine months in 2018.
• Net written premiums rose to USD 481.3 billion in nine months of 2019 from USD 468.4 billion in nine months of 2018. Net written premium growth slowed to 2.7% from 11.4% for nine months in 2018. Net earned premium growth was 4.7% in nine months of 2019, slowing from 9.3% for nine months in 2018.