All the headlines from our S&P Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 10 2000 // On May 8, Standard & Poor’s (S&P) lowered its various ratings on Fremont General Corp. and related entities and placed them on CreditWatch with negative implications. The ratings actions came soon after...
May 10 2000 // Standard & Poor’s has placed its ratings on several insurance companies with significant exposure to the California workers”comp market on CreditWatch with negative implications. These rating actions,...
May 1 2000 // Standard & Poor’s (S&P) took rating actions on three Irvine-based stock companies. The “BBpi” financial strength rating on Irvine-based Developers Insurance Company (DICO) was affirmed by...
Apr 30 2000 // Standard & Poor’s, while affirming Hannover Re’s overall ratings of AA- or better, revised its outlook from stable to negative, reflecting concerns over the German reinsurer’s rapid rate of...
Apr 3 2000 // Standard & Poor’s (S&P) long-term rating on the Frontier Insurance Co.-supported medium-term note issue was lowered from “BBB+” to “BB+.” The note issue’s implied short-term...
Apr 3 2000 // An issue of floating-rate notes, the payouts for which are linked to an index of California earthquakes, was assigned a “BB” rating by S&P. The annual probability that monies in the collateral account...
Feb 4 2000 // Standard & Poor’s lowered its counterparty credit rating on Frontier Insurance Group Inc. to “BB+” from “BBB.” S&P also lowered its preferred stock rating to “B+” from...
Feb 3 2000 // Standard & Poors lowered its long-term rating on Frontier Insurance Co.-supported medium-term note issue to “BBB+” from “A.” The issue’s implied short-term rating was lowered to...
Feb 2 2000 // Standard & Poor’s commented on Feb. 1 regarding the Jan. 24 announcement that Reliance Group Holdings Inc. and related subsidiaries completed a settlement with various reinsurers and insurers concerning its...
Jan 1 2000 // “Ratings on the core insurance entities of the ING insurance group are based on its very strong business position and extremely strong capital. These strengths are supported by very strong financial flexibility and...