All the headlines from our S&P Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 6 2006 // Major earthquakes, category 5 hurricanes and terrorist attacks strike in an unpredictable manner. A fortune teller who could predict when the next of any of these events will occur would be hailed as the next Nostradamus....
Nov 6 2006 // Major earthquakes, category 5 hurricanes and terrorist attacks strike in an unpredictable manner. A fortune teller who could predict when the next of any of these events will occur would be hailed as the next Nostradamus....
Nov 5 2006 // Major earthquakes, category 5 hurricanes and terrorist attacks strike in an unpredictable manner. A fortune teller who could predict when the next of any of these events will occur would be hailed as the next Nostradamus....
Oct 26 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said that its “interactive Lloyd’s Syndicate Assessment (LSA) of ‘2+/Stable’ on Canopius Managing Agents – Syndicate 4444 and its public...
Oct 20 2006 // After Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services lowered its country ratings on Italy to “A+” from “AA-” it issued a supplementary bulletin that reaffirmed its ratings on three of the...
Oct 20 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services reacted positively to the news that Berkshire Hathaway’s National Indemnity will initially back and could eventually take over Lloyd’s run-off vehicle Equitas Ltd....
Oct 19 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Rating Services has assigned its “A+” counterparty credit and financial strength ratings to newly created, Dublin-based XL Re Europe Ltd. The new Company will assume all non-life...
Oct 18 2006 // Swiss-based reinsurer Converium AG has reached agreement with National Indemnity, a Berkshire Hathaway company, to sell its North American operations for $295 million comprised of $95 million in cash and $200 million in...
Sep 26 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said that its ratings on USI Holdings Corp. (BB-/Negative/–) were not affected by the company’s plans to raise $100 million under the accordion feature its existing...
Sep 21 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said that it is taking no rating action on Marsh & McLennan Companies (BBB/Negative/A-2) following the firm’s decision to, as MMC phrased it, “do a market...
Aug 21 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services reported that it revised its counterparty credit rating on Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co. to ‘R’ from ‘B+’ and its surplus note rating to ‘D’...
Jul 30 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services revised its outlook on China’s insurance sector to positive from developing to reflect expectations that the financial strength of the overall industry will improve over...
Jul 6 2006 // A new report from Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services – “Non-Life Insurance Industry Risk Analysis: Denmark {Kingdom of}” – concludes that economic and industry risk are moderately low in...
Jul 6 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has affirmed its “A” long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Norway’s marine insurer Norwegian Hull Club (NHC or the club)...
Jul 6 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has raised its counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Ming An Insurance Co. (Hong Kong) Ltd. to “BBB” from “BB+” after the...
Jul 4 2006 // Despite recent adversity and scrutiny faced by the insurance industry, financial ratings for companies appear on the upswing.“For the first time that I can remember we have a period where none of the sectors that we...
Jun 28 2006 // The U.S. property/casualty industry’s net gain on underwriting rose $1.4 billion, or 20.8 percent, to $8.4 billion in first-quarter 2006 from $6.9 billion in first-quarter 2005. The combined ratio — a key...
Jun 20 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has assigned its “B+” long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings and its “kzBBB” Kazakhstan national scale rating to...
Jun 19 2006 // Safeco Outlook Positive Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services affirmed its “A+” counterpart credit and financial strength ratings on the Safeco Intercompany Pool members. S&P also affirmed its...
Jun 19 2006 // At the midpoint of 2006, many commercial insurers are generating exceptional earnings, according to an article published by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services. The article, which is titled “U.S. Commercial...