All the headlines from our S&P Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 19 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services today said it lowered its counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on American National Insurance Co. (ANICO) and its core subsidiaries, American National Life...
Dec 18 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has revised its outlook on White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd. (WTM), OneBeacon Insurance Group Ltd. (OB), and the members of OneBeacon Insurance Group (OneBeacon) to negative...
Dec 17 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has affirmed its ‘AA-‘ ratings on Insurance Australia Group Ltd.’s (IAG) core operating companies, including Insurance Australia Ltd. and IAG New Zealand...
Dec 17 2008 // Bermuda-based XL Capital Ltd. has issued two separate comments following yesterday’s announcement by Standard & Poor’s Ratings that it has downgraded XL and its operating subsidiaries (See IJ web site...
Dec 16 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has lowered its counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on XL Capital Ltd.’s core operating companies to ‘A’ from ‘A+’. S&P also...
Dec 16 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has raised its counterparty credit rating on Warren, N.J.-based Chubb Corp. to ‘A+’ from ‘A’, “to reflect reduced notching...
Dec 15 2008 // The deteriorating U.S. economy – with its waves of layoffs, dislocations in the credit and equity markets, and falling home prices – will present a challenge in 2009 for almost every domestic business sector,...
Dec 11 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has published its latest findings on the state of European insurers. It concludes that for the most part, “with the exception of the relatively small number of...
Dec 11 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said today that it has revised its outlooks on ING Groep N.V., ING Verzekeringen N.V., ING Bank N.V., and certain related entities to negative from stable. S&P also...
Dec 10 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings has revised its outlook on Spain’s Mapfre S.A and related core subsidiaries (Mapfre Empresas, Compania de Seguros y Reaseguros, S.A. and Mapfre Re Compañía de Reaseguros, S.A.)...
Dec 8 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has placed its ‘A’ long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Italy-based insurer HDI Assicurazioni SpA (HDI/Italia or HDI/I) on...
Dec 8 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has placed its ratings on five major U.S. mortgage insurers and their core and dependent foreign subsidiaries on CreditWatch with negative implications. These...
Dec 8 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services affirmed its ‘A-‘ global financial strength rating and its ‘mxAAA’ national scale rating on Mexico-based Allianz Mexico Compañía de Seguros S.A....
Dec 2 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has raised its long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on U.K.-based non-life insurer Hiscox Insurance Co. Ltd. (HISCO) to ‘A’ from...
Dec 2 2008 // A.M. Best Co. has upgraded the financial strength rating (FSR) to ‘A++’ (Superior) from ‘A+’ (Superior) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) to “aa+” from “aa” of Ancon Insurance...
Nov 26 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said in a report published today that reinsurers have had sufficient excess capital available to absorb the shocks of the past year, but much of that cushion has now been...
Nov 25 2008 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating of “a-” of Malaysian Reinsurance Berhad (Malaysian Re), both with stable outlooks....
Nov 24 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has affirmed its ‘BBB+’ counterparty credit and senior unsecured debt ratings on Aon Corp. and has removed the ratings from CreditWatch, where they had been placed...
Nov 21 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has raised its long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on South Africa-based non-life reinsurer Hannover Reinsurance Africa Ltd. to ‘A’...
Nov 21 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has raised its long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on South Africa-based reinsurer Munich Reinsurance Co. of Africa Ltd. to ‘A’...