All the headlines from our S&P Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 19 2005 // Cat model reassessments cause rating and capital changesLast fall’s disastrous hurricanes provided some rough times for the catastrophe modeling industry. Consequently the principal cat modelers – Applied...
Jun 16 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has revised its outlook on Channel Reinsurance Ltd.’s “AAA” financial strength and financial enhancement ratings to negative from...
Jun 14 2005 // Insurance brokerage executives at Standard & Poor’s insurance conference, “Insurance 2005: Under the Microscope,” expressed confidence Tuesday that brokers would survive the sunset of the...
Jun 10 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has assigned its “BBB” long-term insurer financial strength and counterparty credit ratings to Taian Insurance Co. Ltd. with a stable outlook. As...
Jun 8 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services new assessment of the outlook on the U.S. reinsurance sector finds that it continues to be stable (See related article in “National “), “but only because of...
Jun 8 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has issued its assessment on the U.S. reinsurance sector, which concludes that it remains stable, even though there have been declines in pricing.S&P notes: “The...
Jun 7 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has assigned its “BBB-” rating to Kingsway ROC GP’s C$125 million (U.S.$100 million) 10-year senior unsecured debt, unconditionally...
Jun 7 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced it raised its counterparty credit rating on San Antonio-based Argonaut Group Inc. to “BBB-” from “BB+.”At the same time, S&P raised its...
Jun 3 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has lowered its long-term counterparty credit and senior debt ratings on American International Group Inc. (AIG) to AA from AA-Plus. Standard & Poor’s also removed...
Jun 2 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has lowered to “A-” from “A” its counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on UNIQA Versicherungen AG (UV) as well as...
Jun 2 2005 // After experiencing its worst catastrophe losses ever (about $27 billion) in 2004, the U.S. personal lines insurance sector is showing signs of entering into a softer cycle than the hard one that has dominated the industry...
Jun 1 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has lowered its long-term public information-based (‘pi’) counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Hungary-based Aegon...
May 31 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has revised its outlook to positive from negative on Norwegian marine insurer Bluewater Insurance ASA, based on an improved view of the company’s...
May 31 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has indicated that it is not taking any rating action on insurance broker Hilb, Rogal & Hobbs as a result of the company’s announcement that its president and chief...
May 30 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has raised its long-term counterparty credit and debt ratings on seven unregulated insurance and reinsurance holding companies. S&P also raised its...
May 27 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has raised its long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on the Core operating subsidiaries of the French credit insurance group...
May 26 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has assigned its “A+” long-term counterparty credit and financial strength ratings to the following Canadian subsidiaries of the Netherlands ING...
May 24 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has affirmed its ratings on the various operating entities of Swiss-based composite insurance group Zurich Financial Services (collectively ZFS), including...
May 24 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services Melbourne office announced that it has revised its rating outlook on Simply Insurance New Zealand Ltd. to developing from stable. The rating remains at...
May 24 2005 // Zurich Financial Services Group (ZFS) announced today that Zurich Insurance Ireland Limited (ZIIL), formerly Eagle Star Insurance Company (Ireland) Ltd., will become an EU-wide risk carrier for Global Corporate business...