All the headlines from our S&P Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 7 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has said that its ‘AA-‘ long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Swiss Re “are unaffected by its disclosure, as part of its...
May 7 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has affirmed its ‘AAA’ counterparty credit, ‘A-1+’ commercial paper, and ‘AAA’ senior unsecured debt ratings on Berkshire Hathaway Inc....
May 6 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has revised its outlook on Great Northwest Insurance Co. (GNIC) to stable from negative, and has also affirmed its ‘BB-‘ counterparty credit and financial strength...
May 6 2008 // A.M. Best Co. has revised the outlook to positive from stable for the ratings of New Zealand’s Pacific International Insurance Limited (PII), and has affirmed PII’s financial strength rating of ‘B+’...
May 2 2008 // A report from Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services analyzes the catastrophe bond and reinsurance sidecar markets, which, S&P concludes, have “experienced sharp surges of activity after 2005.”...
May 2 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has revised its outlook on Netherlands-based AEGON N.V. and its core subsidiaries to negative from stable. Concurrently S&P affirmed its ‘A+/A-1’ counterparty...
Apr 25 2008 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘B’ (Fair) and issuer credit rating of “bb+” of Greenville Casualty Insurance Company, and has revised the outlook to positive from...
Apr 23 2008 // Liberty Mutual Group has agreed to acquire all outstanding shares of common stock of Safeco Corp. for $68.25 per share in cash in a deal that will make Liberty Mutual the fifth largest U.S. property/casualty insurer and...
Apr 23 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has placed its ratings on both Liberty Mutual Group Inc. (LMGI) and Seattle-based Safeco Corp on CreditWatch with negative implications, following the announcement that Liberty...
Apr 21 2008 // Premium volume may be down for independent agencies across the country but that doesn’t mean agency revenue is down for some of the nation’s top performing agencies. Diversifying an agency’s revenue...
Apr 17 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings has assigned its long-term ‘A’ counterparty and insurer financial strength ratings to Kenya-based African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI)with a stable outlook. “The...
Apr 16 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said that its ‘A+’ ratings on the core operating entities of QBE Insurance Group Ltd. (currently ‘A-‘ with a stable outlook) are unchanged after...
Apr 16 2008 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating (FSR) to ‘B-‘ (Fair) from ‘B’ (Fair) and issuer credit rating (ICR) to “bb-” from “bb+” of Interstate Auto...
Apr 15 2008 // Neither Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services nor A.M. Best Co. anticipate making any ratings changes as a result of Joseph Brandon’s leaving his post as CEO of General Reinsurance Corp. S&P rates Gen Re...
Apr 14 2008 // Bermuda-based property reinsurer RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. has agreed to acquire the assets of Agro National, a managing general underwriter of crop insurance.The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The...
Apr 14 2008 // Billionaire Warren Buffett’s new municipal bond insurance company Friday won the top “AAA” rating from Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, which cited the venture’s nearly $1 billion...
Apr 14 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has assigned its ‘AAA’ financial strength and financial enhancement ratings to Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Corp. (BHAC). S&P also assigned its...
Apr 14 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has lowered its insurer financial strength rating on the Australian mortgage insurer PMI Mortgage Insurance Ltd. (PMI Australia) by one notch to ‘AA-‘ from...
Apr 10 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services’ latest review of the U.K. insurance market – “Insurance Industry Risk Analysis: U.K. Economic Risk Increases But Unlikely To Put Pressure On Non-Life...
Apr 10 2008 // Fitch Ratings has affirmed the ‘A-‘ insurer financial strength (IFS) ratings of Imagine Insurance Company Limited (Imagine) and Imagine International Reinsurance Limited with stable outlooks. “The...