{"id":2654,"date":"2025-10-15T17:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/great-american-and-swiss-re-rise-in-illinoiss-booming-surplus-lines-market\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T18:04:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:04:54","slug":"great-american-and-swiss-re-rise-in-illinoiss-booming-surplus-lines-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/great-american-and-swiss-re-rise-in-illinoiss-booming-surplus-lines-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Great American and Swiss Re rise in Illinois&#8217;s booming surplus lines market"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Swiss Re\u2019s 96% premium surge in Illinois surplus lines, rising to nearly $60 million, is a standout of strategic placement in the excess property space. Kyle Burnett, head of E&amp;S Property for Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, credits the shift to both rising demand and the flexibility of the excess market: \u201cThe freedom of rate and form allows (Illinois) carriers to customize coverage to fit the needs of clients based on the economic climate, what they can afford and the coverage most needed to protect their assets,\u201d he said in the full report. Burnett\u2019s insight, combined with decades-long commentary from SLAI CEO David Ocasek, anchors the report\u2019s data analysis. Ocasek\u2019s SLAI tenure, stretching back to 1985, has seen Illinois\u2019s excess market balloon from just over $200 million in 1999 to $4.4 billion in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss Re\u2019s 96% premium surge in Illinois surplus lines, rising to nearly $60 million, is a standout of strategic placement in the excess property space. Kyle Burnett, head of E&amp;S Property for Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, credits the shift to both rising demand and the flexibility of the excess market: \u201cThe freedom of rate and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[245,1619,1076,1618,588,324,347,1620,1446],"class_list":["post-2654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-american","tag-booming","tag-great","tag-illinoiss","tag-lines","tag-market","tag-rise","tag-surplus","tag-swiss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2665,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions\/2665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}