Primerica, Progressive, Allstate, and Trupanion Shares Are Falling, What You Need To Know

A number of stocks fell in the afternoon session after investors continued to mark down the group on the earnings risk from an active severe-weather season. The latest hard number came last week, when Allstate said in its August monthly release that estimated pre-tax catastrophe losses were $748 million, driven by 21 weather events, with roughly half tied to a single wind and hail storm. Combined July and August catastrophe losses reached $1.43 billion pre-tax, the company said. That disclosure