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Following a surprise 1% rate increase across U.S. commercial property and casualty (P&C) lines during July, rate movements remained flat in August, in line with the trend witnessed from March through June, according to the latest industry commentary from MarketScout and KBW.

Abundant insurance and reinsurance market capacity, assisted by the influx of alternative capital, coupled with a lack of large loss events, has contributed to a decline in global insurance rates for the ninth quarter running, according to analysts at Marsh.

Global insurance and reinsurance firms feel the industry is adequately or over-capitalised, exacerbated by a continued lack of large catastrophe losses as well as competition from new entrants, according to Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM).

U.S. commercial property and casualty (P&C) rates remained flat in April, ensuring prices as measured by a composite rate index stayed the same in the month as in April 2014, according to MarketScout’s latest Insurance Market Barometer.

The latest Insurance Market Barometer from MarketScout reveals U.S. commercial property and casualty (P&C) rates were flat in March, on track with the trend seen in December and January, ensuring a slowdown from February’s 1% gain.

Commercial property and casualty (P&C) insurance rates could turn negative in 2015 after December saw flat year-on-year rate increases, bringing an end to the positive but decelerating rate hikes seen in November (1% y/y) and throughout last year.

The rate trajectory of commercial property and casualty (P&C) insurance rates in the U.S. continued to be positive in September, with rates actually rising faster than in August. But analysts suggest that overall a deceleration of P&C rates will continue.

The trajectory of commercial property and casualty (P&C) insurance rates in the U.S. continues to be upwards, but rate increases have slowed dramatically coming in at a 1% year-on-year increase in August and may turn to negative later this year.