Best’s Briefing: Fundamental Changes to Underwriting, Pricing Practices Drive U.S. Commercial Lines Insurance Outlook to Stable

OLDWICK, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A.M. Best is revising its outlook on the commercial lines segment of the U.S. property/casualty industry to stable from negative for 2018, citing an embedded change in the sophistication of the segment’s pricing and underwriting infrastructure and the segment’s resilience amid a variety of macroeconomic and insurance market issues in recent years. The Best’s Briefing, titled, “Market Segment Outlook: U.S. Commercial Lines,” notes that while the pricing environmen