Unbiased businesses maintain sturdy amid exhausting market

Regardless of the challenges posed by a tough market, the impartial company sector has maintained its market presence and achieved gradual progress in numerous enterprise strains as detailed within the Large “I” 2024 Market Share Report.

The 2024 report reveals that the impartial company channel accounts for 62.2% of all P&C insurance coverage written within the US.

In industrial strains, the impartial company channel held regular, inserting 87% of all industrial strains written premium. In private strains, the channel’s share elevated to 39% in 2023 from 38% in 2022, persevering with a five-year progress pattern. Direct written premiums rose to $952 billion in 2023, which is up from $861 billion in 2022.

Unbiased businesses noticed additional positive factors within the owners’ insurance coverage sector, growing to 51% in 2023 from 50% in 2022, and 46% in 2021. Through the exhausting market, businesses continued to depend on surplus strains, with a 9.3% utilization fee in 2023, up from 9% in 2022 and 6% over the previous 5 years.

Personal flood surplus strains remained well-liked, with a 46% utilization fee in 2023, in comparison with 45% in 2022 and 42% over the previous 5 years. This pattern in surplus line utilization is linked to a hardening market and provider withdrawals.

“Regardless of the numerous challenges posed by the exhausting market, impartial businesses’ market share held regular and even continued making positive factors in key strains—a testomony to the power of the impartial company channel,” Large “I” CEO Charles Symington mentioned.

“On this present surroundings, selection is extra essential to clients than ever earlier than, and impartial brokers proceed to show themselves as trusted advisors for his or her shoppers and indispensable companions within the insurance coverage market.”