All the headlines from our S&P Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 27 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has affirmed its ‘AAA’ counterparty credit rating on GEICO Corp. and its ‘AAA’ counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on...
May 27 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has affirmed its “A-” long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Alea London Ltd., Alea (Bermuda) Ltd., Alea Europe...
May 24 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that, following a review, it has affirmed its ‘BBB’ long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on U.K.-based insurer Sunderland...
May 20 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has assigned its ‘A-‘ long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings to Denmark-based Tryg Forsikring A/S (Tryg) and...
May 20 2004 // Major acquisition announcements inevitably trigger a lot of fallout – very like the effect of throwing a large rock into a still pond. The ripples spread out over the pond’s surface. MMC’s announcement...
May 19 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has revised its outlook on American Financial Group Inc. and the members of the Great American Insurance Co. pool, the Republic Indemnity Co. pool, the...
May 17 2004 // Hard markets have a way of making insurance company financial strength ratings a hot topic of discussion, and not just among insurance agents and brokers. Professional risk managers and other insurance buyers, consumer...
May 14 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has placed its “AA-” counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Mercantile Mutual Insurance (Australia) Ltd. “on...
May 13 2004 // Despite higher insured catastrophe losses in the U.S. in 2003, companies writing property catastrophe reinsurance realized very strong operating performance, according to a report published by Standard & Poor’s...
May 12 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has affirmed its “A-” counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Montpelier Reinsurance Ltd. and its ‘BBB’ counterparty...
May 12 2004 // Houston-based HCC Insurance Holdings Inc. announced that Standard & Poor’s have affirmed their AA (Very Strong) counterpart credit and financial strength ratings for the HCC Insurance Holdings Inc. group of...
May 12 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has placed its “AA-” counterparty credit, insurer financial strength, and insurer financial enhancement ratings on Swiss-based Allianz Risk...
May 11 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Credit Market Services has issued a report on the U.S. P/C industry, which notes that the rating agency is maintaining its negative rating outlook on this sector of the commercial insurance...
May 10 2004 // Both Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services and Moody’s Investors Service have assigned high ratings to Assured Guaranty and its subsidiaries, the international surety insurer, formed from the spin off of ACE...
May 6 2004 // A newly issued report from Standard & Poor’s concludes that “France’s mutual insurance sector remains healthy, but its long-term prosperity is being threatened by external competition and exposure...
May 6 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has assigned its “A-” long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings to Hanover-based surety insurer Deutsche...
May 5 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has placed its ‘BBB-‘ counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on American Steamship Owners Mutual P&I Assn. Inc. on CreditWatch...
May 3 2004 // West News • April 14 “The taxpayers of California will ultimately face the financial consequences should the SCIF be in financial trouble or fail. There is no excuse for SCIF not having an A.M. Best rating. Rather...
Apr 30 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has affirmed its “A” insurer financial strength rating on U.K. non-life insurer Groupama Insurance Co. Ltd. and removed the company from...
Apr 30 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has assigned its “BBB-” senior debt rating to Arch Capital Group Ltd.’s $300 million 30-year senior debt issue announced on April 27. (See...