Property insurance rates increased sharply in the fourth quarter of 2005, according to the RIMS Benchmark Survey, Reversing a 2-year trend of steadily falling property insurance premiums, some commercial insurance buyers saw property premiums increase by as much as 33 percent, with a median increase of 8 percent, in the fourth quarter.

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