CNA's David Haas Provides Key E&S Market Insights

Ahead of the 2025 WSIA Marketplace, Risk and Insurance^® examines Excess and Surplus market trends.

These include details on a sixth year of double-digit increases in U.S. domestic direct premiums. David Haas, President, Global Specialty at CNA provides insights into the strongest performing lines:

"Shared and layered property and management liability lines are performing better than ground-up property, long-tail liabilities and health care risk profiles. This may also be a function of the sheer level of capital being deployed in those areas tied back to relatively tame storm seasons. But, in general, we’re seeing sharp increases in the automobile-driven business as well as tough products risks, which is enabling the market to strike better relativity and program structures where the hope is that long-term performance will be better."

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