Approved June 30, effective January 1, 2027. The region's largest wider-market filing by headcount: Erie rebuilds Abuse & Sexual Molestation pricing across its 44,327-policyholder North Carolina package book ($142M), moving from flat fees to exposure-based rating. Hotels see molestation-coverage costs up roughly 78%, apartments about 70%, and day cares 25%. Quietly, in the same filing, cyber-extortion, social-engineering and computer-fraud sublimits get cut from $25,000 to $10,000.
Who feels it: habitational, hotel, religious, day-care, school and school-bus-contractor accounts — anyone with people-contact exposure and a small-business cyber sublimit. Move now: the ASM increases are hard to avoid, but the cyber cut is the quiet one — flag clients who were counting on that $25,000 of extortion or fraud protection, because it's about to be $10,000.