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Strong 2025 Underwriting Income Masks Persistent Property/Casualty Insurance Pressures
Limited catastrophe impacts supported P&C underwriting profitabilityJERSEY CITY, N.J., March 25, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, preliminary U.S. property and casualty (P&C) insurance underwriting results for full year 2025 were released by Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK), a leading strategic data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry, and the American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA), the primary national trade association for home, auto and business insurers. A
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