Allstate CEO Says Insurance Premiums Will Have to Increase More

Premiums will have to climb further for insurers to recoup some of the expenses lost to inflation, Allstate Corp. Chief Executive Officer Tom Wilson said.

“We have to raise our prices,” Wilson said Monday in a Bloomberg Television interview. Premiums have already increased 6.5% in the past six months, “and we think we’ll have to go higher from there.”

WATCH: Allstate Corp. CEO Tom Wilson says all insurers are raising their premiums due to higher inflation.

Source: Bloomberg

Inflation will be affecting the U.S. economy for awhile, Wilson said. The consumer price index increased 8.5% in March, its most aggressive pace since 1981, according to the Labor Department. Wilson said that’s contributed to a 40% surge in used-car ...