All the headlines from our S&P Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 31 2006 // An article published in Standard & Poor’s Ratings Direct stresses that “financial flexibility continues to be an extremely important rating factor.” The publication, entitled “More Frequent...
Mar 28 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has assigned its ‘AA-‘ long-term counterparty credit rating to Insurance Australia Group Ltd., with a stable outlook.“The rating reflects...
Mar 23 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has lowered its counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group PLC’s U.S. insurance operations to...
Mar 22 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has lowered its counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on American Steamship Owners Mutual P&I Assn. Inc. (American Club) to “B+”...
Mar 21 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said that its criteria for measuring catastrophe risk for primary insurers will be revised early in the second quarter of this year. (For reinsurers, there are no current plans...
Mar 20 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has revised its outlook on the holding companies and core operating entities of Netherlands-based insurance group Eureko to positive from stable,...
Mar 20 2006 // Ratings analysts who downgraded personal lines insurer Atlantic Mutual earlier this month will be meeting with the company in the coming weeks to review results of the fourth quarter and all of 2005 before deciding what to...
Mar 17 2006 // The insurance industry is turning more frequently to catastrophe bonds, according to an article titled “Catastrophe Bonds: Assessing A Risky Business,” which was published by Standard & Poor’s...
Mar 17 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has revised its outlook on Harleysville, Pa.-based Harleysville Group Inc. to stable from negative.Standard & Poor’s also said that it affirmed its...
Mar 10 2006 // The London office of Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has issued a statement indicating that it will “recognize a capital relief in its capital adequacy model for AXA Group (core insurance operating...
Mar 8 2006 // Germany’s Hannover Re has announced a fundamental restructuring its U.S. primary insurance business. “All specialty business – henceforth the strategic focus – is to be transferred to the newly...
Mar 7 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services and A.M. Best Co. both issued brief bulletins commenting on Generali’s earnings announcement and its plans for the future, which include issuing new hybrid securities...
Mar 3 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has assigned its “A” long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings to U.K.-based NIPPONKOA Insurance Co. (Europe) Ltd....
Mar 2 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has raised its long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Russia-based insurer Neftepolis Insurance Co. LLC to “B”...
Feb 24 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has lowered its counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Bermuda-based PXRE Reinsurance Ltd. and U.S.-based PXRE Reinsurance Co. (collectively...
Feb 24 2006 // Confidence in the reserve adequacy of U.S. insurers increased modestly for accident years 2003 and 2004, according to Standard & Poor’s, but the rating agency said insurers’ ability to attain adequate...
Feb 23 2006 // Insurance Australia Group Ltd. (IAG), the country’s biggest auto and home insurer, posted a six-month profit for the period ended Dec. 31, 2005 of A$461 million (US$340.7 million). However, overall policy sales...
Feb 22 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has assigned its “BBB-” long-term and “A-3” short-term corporate credit ratings to Kuwait-based holding company Kuwait Projects Co....
Feb 21 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it would keep both GE Insurance Solutions (GEIS) and Swiss Re on its CreditWatch list, as they continue to work on their agreement to sell GE’s insurance...
Feb 19 2006 // The outlook for the U.S. workers’ compensation sector in 2006 is good, with the ratings impact for insurers expected to be neutral on the whole, according to a report from Standard & Poor’s Ratings...