JMP Securities analyst Matthew Carletti said Hurricane Irma still has the potential to be the largest insured natural catastrophe event in U.S. insurance industry history, though he believes that the property catastrophe market will see a market turn at the coming January 1 renewal. He recommends investors focus near-term on insurers that have lower-than-peer exposure to the event, such as Chubb (CB) and Alleghany (Y), which he upgraded to Outperform from Market Perform with a $625 price target. He also pointed to Amerisafe (AMSF) and ProAssurance (PRA) as insurers with no exposure to Irma losses that have been caught up in the pre-Irma selloff in the space.

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