8 November 2016Insurance

Rate increases in UK non-life fail to stop profitability decline

Despite premium rate increases in some non-life lines of business in the UK during 2015 and the first half of 2016, the benefit was largely offset by a combination of higher claims, an increase in the level of insurance premium tax (IPT) and levies for Flood Re, according to AM Best.

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