All the headlines from our S&P Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 22 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has assigned its “A-” issue rating to the A$500 million (U.S. $392 million) issue of Reset Exchangeable Securities (RES) by the New Zealand branch...
Nov 22 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has revised its outlook on White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd. (WTM), Fund American Cos. Inc., Folksamerica Reinsurance Co. and Sirius International...
Nov 19 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has affirmed its ‘BBB-‘ counterparty credit rating on CNA Financial Corp. (NYSE:CNA) and its ‘A-‘ counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on...
Nov 17 2004 // Standard & Poor’s has issued a bulletin “in response to media reports that the New York Attorney General, the SEC, and other authorities are initiating new investigations of insurance companies in...
Nov 16 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has affirmed its ‘A’ counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. and related entities (see ratings list). At the same time,...
Nov 11 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has affirmed its “BBB-” counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Italian composite insurance group Fondiaria-SAI SpA,...
Nov 11 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has raised its long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Oslo-based marine insurer Assuranceforeningen SKULD (Gjensidig) (Skuld...
Nov 11 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Rating Services announced that it has affirmed it’s “AA-” insurer financial strength rating on London-based Tokio Marine Europe Insurance Ltd. (TMEI), a wholly owned...
Nov 11 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has assigned its “BBB+” preferred stock rating to Bermuda-based PartnerRe Ltd.’s (PRE’s) proposed $200 million Series D Cumulative...
Nov 10 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has revised its outlook on French reinsurer SCOR and its guaranteed subsidiaries to positive from stable. At the same time, S&P affirmed its...
Nov 8 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has revised its outlook on the U.S. property/casualty commercial lines sector to negative from stable.“The outlook revision follows allegations of widespread misconduct...
Nov 2 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has placed its “BB-” counterparty credit and bank loan ratings on USI Holdings Corp. on CreditWatch with negative implications. “This rating...
Nov 1 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it will hold a telephone conference call on Monday, Nov. 1, 2004, at 1 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time.The bulletin said Donovan Fraser, John Iten, Mark Puccia, Tom...
Nov 1 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has revised its outlook on Bermuda-based ACE Ltd. and some of its subsidiaries to negative from stable.At the same time, S&P assigned preliminary debt...
Nov 1 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has republished an earlier article, issued last Friday, October 29, concerning the revision of its outlook on the American International Group from stable to negative. S&P...
Oct 27 2004 // Following recent developments at Marsh & McLennan, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has issued a bulletin, which sets forth its initial reaction to the changes (See related articles).S&P said its...
Oct 26 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has affirmed its “BBB” long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Cyprus-based reinsurer Alliance International...
Oct 22 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has placed its “BBB-” counterparty credit rating on Willis Group Holdings Inc. on CreditWatch with negative implications.The decision follows...
Oct 22 2004 // Standard & Poor’s said today it believes the three major brokers on which it has commented since bid-rigging and account steering charges have rocked the industry have the “resources to manage through...
Oct 22 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has revised its outlook on the U.S. property/casualty commercial lines sector to negative from stable.“The outlook revision follows allegations of widespread misconduct...