How to Use loss ratio in a Sentence

loss ratio

noun
  • His loss ratio, meanwhile, was 73 per cent.
    — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2026
  • As a result its motor loss ratio is expected to have risen around 6% last year.
    — Royston Wild, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
  • That means the good-win versus bad-loss ratio remains tilted heavily in the wrong direction.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Generally speaking, the higher the loss ratio, the higher the renewal, though that is not always the case.
    — Louis Bernardi, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Insurance plans that fail to meet those thresholds, known as a medical loss ratios, must send rebate checks to their customers the following year.
    — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 22 Apr. 2020
  • There has been over $35 billion invested in middle market businesses with a very little loss ratio.
    — Fred Hubler, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Such a poor win to loss ratio would typically lead to thinking that a team should sell off superfluous parts in trades and search for younger players or draft assets in return.
    — Tony East, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • If their revenue exceeds that percentage, called the medical loss ratio, the companies must issue refunds.
    — Jenny Deam, Houston Chronicle, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Argo’s loss ratio, which assesses losses on claims to premiums earned, fell 3 percentage points to 63 percent in the first quarter from a year ago.
    — Patrick Danner, ExpressNews.com, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Their medical loss ratios, also called benefit expense or medical care ratios, have been around 90% or higher in most cases.
    — Bruce Japsen, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
  • Insurers that encourage patients to shop for providers that offer lower cost services with higher value and share those savings will receive credit in their medical loss ratio.
    — Bloomberg.com, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Whether the high losses are worth it to the general staff in Kyiv depends on the invasion’s objectives—and whether the loss ratio flips as the Kursk campaign develops.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Allstate, the second-largest home insurer in America, which has had decades to refine its underwriting, had a loss ratio of 71% in the second quarter.
    — Jeff Kauflin, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The increase in the loss ratio was primarily due to higher catastrophe losses from Hurricanes Helene and Beryl.
    — Quartz Bot, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024
  • The primary driver for leaders should be medical loss ratio (MLR), the cost of treating illness after people become sick.
    — Sas Mukherjee, Forbes.com, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The insurance industry said its current loss ratio reflects the costs for insurers in recent years and the steps deemed necessary for ensuring that insurance funding is stable and solvent.
    — ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Anthem’s medical loss ratio, or the share of premiums spent on health costs, was slightly worse than analysts’ expectations for the third quarter, according to early notes from analysts.
    — Anna Wilde Mathews, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018
  • Health insurance companies may defend this unseemly situation by pointing to a rule called the medical loss ratio, or MLR.
    — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2020
  • The company’s medical-loss ratio—a measure of the proportion of premiums paid out for medical care—rose to about 83% because of the return toward normal levels of healthcare use.
    — Matt Grossman, WSJ, 15 July 2021
  • The loss ratio prior to the pandemic was about 62, the attorney general’s office said in a March 31 letter to the DOI.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • In insurance tech markets, for example, poor data governance can lead to loss ratios, claims processing delays and underwriting inefficiency.
    — Saeed Amidi, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Investors—and analysts on UnitedHealth’s conference call—were largely focused on the insurance unit’s medical loss ratio, or the share of premiums spent on medical care.
    — Anna Wilde Mathews, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Between the mentoring before and during the life of the loan and shrewd evaluations of ideas and of people, First Capital has a 2 percent loss ratio that any banker would envy, Anderson said.
    — Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Many carriers scaled back plans and benefits in 2024 and 2025, which helped improve margins while competitors struggled with rising medical loss ratios.
    — Angela Palo, Forbes.com, 20 Feb. 2026
  • This could be a CFO who needs the close to actually shorten, a supply chain leader who needs the planning cycle to actually compress, or a claims executive who needs the loss ratio to actually move.
    — Irfan Khan, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • And Sun Life spokeswoman Cynthia Michener said her company believes that imposing the 83-percent dental loss ratio would drive up costs for dental insurers.
    — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
  • That compares to a loss ratio of about 62% across all property and casualty insurance, according to data compiled by the NAIC of insurers that report to them.
    — Ars Technica, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Their medical loss ratios, which is the share of premiums paid out as claims, have recently started to improve and their gross margins per member are also rising, according to an analysis last week from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
    — Washington Post, 24 May 2018
  • For every $1 collected in premiums, insurers reimbursed 62 cents for claims in 2024, down from an average loss ratio of 80 cents in the 1980s and 1990s.
    — ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Take the nation’s largest health insurer, UnitedHealthcare, owned by UnitedHealth Group, which last month reported a medical loss ratio, which is the percentage of premium revenue that goes toward medical costs, below 85% for the first quarter of this year.
    — Bruce Japsen, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026

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