{"id":414,"date":"2025-11-25T11:20:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.virinchisoftware.com\/clc\/?p=414"},"modified":"2025-12-11T07:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:14:07","slug":"clear-soft-market-conditions-for-commercial-p-c-lines-in-q3-says-ciab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.virinchisoftware.com\/clc\/clear-soft-market-conditions-for-commercial-p-c-lines-in-q3-says-ciab\/","title":{"rendered":"Clear Soft Market Conditions\u2019 for Commercial P\/C Lines in Q3, Says CIAB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Council of Insurance Agents &amp; Brokers (CIAB) quarterly survey, commercial property\/casualty premiums across all account sizes in the third quarter 2025 rose by 1.6%, as premium increases in all lines of business were either flat or lower than the last quarter when premiums for all accounts increased 3.7%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQ3 2025 showed clear soft market conditions across the board,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ciab.com\/resources\/soft-market-clear-in-q3-2025-according-to-the-council-of-insurance-agents-brokers-quarterly-p-c-market-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0said CIAB in its report<\/a>. Lines that saw premiums decrease in Q3 were business interruption, commercial property, cyber, D&amp;O, employment practices, and workers compensation.<\/p>\n<p>Survey respondents cited aggressive competition in Q3, notably for small business. Multiple respondents highlighted carriers\u2019 appetite for smaller accounts, CIAB reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ciab.com\/resources\/soft-market-clear-in-q3-2025-according-to-the-council-of-insurance-agents-brokers-quarterly-p-c-market-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-848305 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CIAB-market-survey-Q3-2025.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CIAB-market-survey-Q3-2025.png 531w, https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CIAB-market-survey-Q3-2025-300x154.png 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cost of cyber insurance fell most out of all lines, down an average of 2.6% in Q3. CIAB said 43% of respondents indicated an increase in cyber underwriting capacity, with about 25% calling the increase \u201csignificant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Commercial property premiums decreased for the first time in eight years, down an average of 0.2%. The reason cited most by respondents was an influx of additional capacity, outweighing demand. New carriers and managing general agents have entered the market as well as returning carriers that left during hard-market conditions. Also, the commercial property reinsurance market has improved, which has trickled down as a benefit to insureds.<\/p>\n<p>Even the rate of premiums increases for umbrella coverage decreased in Q3, CIAB said the line had seen average increases of 11.5% in Q2. In Q3, the increase was an average of 5.5%. \u201cIt\u2019s not yet clear what may be influencing this abrupt reversal in the magnitude of average premium increases for the line,\u201d CIAB added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Council of Insurance Agents &amp; Brokers (CIAB) quarterly survey, commercial property\/casualty premiums across all account sizes in the third quarter 2025 rose by 1.6%, as premium increases in all lines of business were either flat or lower than the last quarter when premiums for all accounts increased 3.7%. \u201cQ3 2025 showed clear soft market conditions across the board,\u201d\u00a0said CIAB in its report. Lines that saw premiums decrease in Q3 were business interruption, commercial property, cyber, D&amp;O, employment practices, and workers compensation. Survey respondents cited aggressive competition in Q3, notably for small business. Multiple respondents highlighted carriers\u2019 appetite for smaller accounts, CIAB reported. The cost of cyber insurance fell most out of all lines, down an average of 2.6% in Q3. CIAB said 43% of respondents indicated an increase in cyber underwriting capacity, with about 25% calling the increase \u201csignificant.\u201d Commercial property premiums decreased for the first time in eight years, down an average of 0.2%. The reason cited most by respondents was an influx of additional capacity, outweighing demand. New carriers and managing general agents have entered the market as well as returning carriers that left during hard-market conditions. Also, the commercial property reinsurance market has improved, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,8,6],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-property-casualty","tag-commercial-lines","tag-market","tag-property-casualty"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/demo.virinchisoftware.com\/clc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AdobeStock_864976005-scaled.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.virinchisoftware.com\/clc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.virinchisoftware.com\/clc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.virinchisoftware.com\/clc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.virinchisoftware.com\/clc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.virinchisoftware.com\/clc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.virinchisoftware.com\/clc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/demo.virinchisoftware.com\/clc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.virinchisoftware.com\/clc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.virinchisoftware.com\/clc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.virinchisoftware.com\/clc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.virinchisoftware.com\/clc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}