All the headlines from our Russia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 27 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has assigned its “B+” long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings to Russia-based reinsurer RESO-Re. S&P also...
May 20 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has placed its “B-” long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings and its “ruBBB-” Russia national scale rating...
Mar 25 2005 // The ACE Group of Companies announced that it has received regulatory approvals to commence property and casualty insurance operations in Poland and Russia.The U.K.’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) has...
Feb 7 2005 // Okay, I admit it: I’m a “Law and Order” junkie. The long-running television show’s reruns are in heavy rotation on the TNT network and I think I’ve seen every ripped-from-the-headlines episode...
Jan 24 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has assigned its ‘B’ long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings to Russia-based (re)insurer Moscow Reinsurance Co....
Aug 27 2004 // Russian authorities investigating the separate air disasters that occurred within minutes of one another on Tuesday night have so far failed to release any conclusions as to the cause(s) of the tragedy.Officially they are...
Aug 25 2004 // Two airliners operated by Russian companies crashed within minutes of one another late Tuesday night. All 89 persons on board the two jets, which had taken off from Moscow’s Domodedovo airport within 40 minutes of...
Jun 9 2004 // Coface, the French export finance insurer, announced that it has purchased the 50 percent interest of French reinsurer SCOR in Unistrat Insurance, making it the sole owner of the company, which will be renamed Unistrat...
Nov 5 2003 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has affirmed its ‘BB’ long-term foreign and ‘BB+’ long-term local currency sovereign credit ratings on the Russian Federation, as well...
Oct 29 2003 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has assigned its ‘B-‘ long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings to Russian insurer oOo Strakhovaya Kompaniya...
Aug 19 2003 // A report from Dow Jones Newswires indicates that Russia’s Economic Ministry is seeking government backing to lower the existing barriers to entry for foreign companies in the country’s insurance market. Foreign...
Jul 30 2003 // American International Group Inc. announced the creation of a cooperative joint venture with the Interros Holding Company (Interros) of Moscow. The joint venture permits AIG companies and Interros to bring together their...
May 9 2003 // A.M. Best Co. announced that it has assigned a financial strength rating of B++ (Very Good) to SCHWARZMEER UND OSTSEE Versicherungs-Aktiengesellschaft SOVAG (Sovag) of Hamburg, Germany with a stable outlook.Although based...
Jul 23 2001 // The Russian insurance market appears ready for steady growth in the next five to 10 years according to a report by Standard & Poor’s.The announcement comes after last month’s upgrade of S&P’s...
Jun 28 2001 // Germany’s Allianz continued its move into Eastern Europe with the announcement that it would acquire a 45 percent interest in Rosno, Russia’s third largest insurer, from its parent company AFK Sistema for an...
Sep 4 2000 // Magician David Copperfield filed a lawsuit against Fireman’s Fund Insurance on August 25 alleging that the insurer improperly denied a claim he filed seeking reimbursement of the $506,343 he spent to get equipment...
Aug 29 2000 // Magician David Copperfield filed a lawsuit against Fireman’s Fund Insurance on August 25 alleging that the insurer improperly denied a claim he filed seeking reimbursement of the $506,343 he spent to get equipment...