Insurance Marketplace Realities 2025 – Marine hull and liability

Rate predictions*: Marine hull and liability

	Trend	Range*
Hull and machinery (U.S.)		Flat to +2.5%
Hull and machinery (London/international)		Flat to +2.5%
P&I (U.S.)		+2.5% to +5%
P&I (International Club)		+5% to +7.5%
Marine liability (primary U.S.)		+2.5% to +5%
Marine liability (excess U.S.)		+5% to +7.5%
Marine liability (London)		+2.5% to +7.5%
USL&H mutual		Flat to +2.5%

*All rate projections shown above are subject to good loss record accounts with higher end of range on accounts with greater risk exposure. Increased rates for accounts with adverse loss experience.

Rate trends for marine hull and liability

Marine underwriters are requiring premium increases for claim inflation.

• Crew and third-party liability larger verdicts
• Hull & machinery and marine property — increases in raw material costs
• Larger and more frequent NatCat and nuclear verdicts — increased costs of insurance and reinsurance

Market restrictions

• Excess liability underwriter review of non-marine underlying coverages (auto liability) — some markets are requiring higher underlying attachment points for fleets of significant size, reduced capacity and higher pricing.
• Markets are preferring to quota share primary and first layer excess placements due to challenging first excess layer lack of market appetite and increased working layer of losses.
• Markets tend to offer higher primary limits as long as it is quota shared.

Global political environment ongoing

• Ukraine/Russia, Black Sea, and Southern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden (Israel/Houthi rebels) remain areas of uncertainty, causing high hull war risk rating and restrictions from the market.

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