Chubb (CB) Stock Lags Industry YTD: Time to Hold or Fold?

By nature of its operations, Chubb has substantial exposure to losses from natural disasters and man-made catastrophes, which have been inducing volatility in its underwriting profitability and weighing on its combined ratio. Chubb had insured Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge. Following the Baltimore bridge collapse, Chubb has to dish out about $4 billion per an analyst in a report published in Insurance Journal. The report states that this insurer has braced up to pay the first installment of$350 mill ...