All the headlines from our AM Best Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 12 2006 // A.M. Best recently announced that it has upgraded United Wisconsin Insurance Company (dba) United Heartland’s rating to a secure A (excellent) rating. This upgrade comes as part of a pooled rating with Accident Fund...
May 8 2006 // Architects & Engineers Nuts & Bolts: NAS Insurance Services Inc. offers architects and engineers errors and omissions insurance through qualifying wholesale brokers. The classes included, but not limited to,...
May 8 2006 // Architects & Engineers Nuts & Bolts: NAS Insurance Services Inc. offers architects and engineers errors and omissions insurance through qualifying wholesale brokers. The classes include, but are not limited to,...
May 8 2006 // Architects & EngineersNuts & Bolts: NAS Insurance Services Inc. offers architects and engineers errors and omissions insurance through qualifying wholesale brokers. The classes included, but not limited to,...
May 8 2006 // Architects & EngineersNuts & Bolts: NAS Insurance Services Inc. offers architects and engineers errors and omissions insurance through qualifying wholesale brokers. The classes include, but are not limited to,...
Apr 29 2006 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength ratings (FSR) of “A” (Excellent) and assigned issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a” to the Unitrin Property and Casualty Insurance Group (Unitrin)...
Apr 13 2006 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating (FSR) to B (Fair) from B+ (Very Good) and the issuer credit ratings (ICR) to “bb” from “bbb-” for the reinsurance subsidiaries of the PXRE...
Apr 4 2006 // The rating agencies have taken different actions on Fairfax Financial Holdings and its subsidiaries, including Odyssey Re Holdings in which Fairfax has an 80 percent stake, following the Group’s filing of its Form...
Mar 31 2006 // A.M. Best Co. announced that it has assigned a financial strength rating of “A-” (Excellent) and an issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a-” to Luxembourg-based Casiopea Re S.A., the reinsurance captive...
Mar 27 2006 // United America Indemnity, Ltd. reported that A.M. Best Company upgraded or affirmed its financial-strength rating for fourof its subsidiaries.Penn-America Group, Inc. was upgraded to A (Excellent); United National Group...
Mar 27 2006 // A.M. Best Co. announced that it has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of “A-” (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a-” of Lancashire Insurance Company. Concurrently, Best...
Mar 27 2006 // During 2004, U.S. property/casualty insurers narrowed the funding gap in their asbestos and environmental loss reserves, principally for asbestos liabilities, as a result of 2004’s pretax charge of nearly $6 billion,...
Mar 20 2006 // Ratings analysts who downgraded personal lines insurer Atlantic Mutual earlier this month will be meeting with the company in the coming weeks to review results of the fourth quarter and all of 2005 before deciding what to...
Mar 16 2006 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of A (Excellent) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a+” of Lloyd’s Syndicate 609 (United Kingdom), which is managed by Atrium Underwriters...
Mar 15 2006 // A.M. Best Co. has placed the financial strength rating (FSR) of A- (Excellent) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a-” of Lancashire Insurance Company (Lancashire) under review with negative implications....
Mar 10 2006 // A.M. Best Co. announced that it has affirmed its Syndicate Rating of “A” (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating of “a+” of Lloyd’s Syndicate 958 with a stable outlook.“The ratings...
Mar 9 2006 // Birmingham, Ala.-based Vesta Insurance Group Inc. has announced that A.M. Best has downgraded the company’s property casualty subsidiaries’ ratings to C++ (Marginal) from B (Fair).Best’s Ratings reflect...
Mar 6 2006 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the Best’s Syndicate Rating of A (Excellent) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a” of Lloyd’s Syndicate 1225 (United Kingdom), which is managed by AEGIS Managing Agency...
Mar 3 2006 // Quanta Capital Holdings Ltd. has reported preliminary financial results for the fourth quarter and full-year ended Dec. 31, 2005, “subject,” the company said, “to completion of review by its...
Mar 2 2006 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of A++ (Superior) of the property/casualty subsidiaries of The Chubb Corporation (Chubb) and has affirmed the issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “aa-”...