CNA Financial Corp. on Monday reported net income of $260 million for the first quarter of 2017, nearly quadruple its profit in the year-ago quarter.
The Chicago-based insurer in a statement credited "focus on underwriting performance and expense discipline" for the surge.
Net investment after taxes increased to $389 million, up 23.5% from $315 million a year ago. Property/casualty net written premiums slipped 2.2% year over year to $1.6 billion.
Catastrophe losses were $4 million, or 0.5 points of the loss ratio in the first quarter of 2017, compared with $4 million, or 0.6 points of the loss ratio, for the prior-year quarter, according to the statement.
The insurer’s property/casualty operations’ combined ratio for the first quarter was 97.2%, 94.8% excluding the impact of the small business premium adjustment, and a deterioration from the year-ago figure of 96.1%.
“Given our focus on underwriting performance and expense discipline, I am pleased that each of our P&C segments produced underlying adjusted combined ratios equal to or better than last year's first quarter,” Dino E. Robusto, CNA Financial’s chairman and CEO, said in a statement.
CNA Financial Corp. on Monday reported fourth-quarter 2016 net income of $241 million, bouncing back from a $70 million loss in the same period a year ago.