All the headlines from our S&P Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 20 2002 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that, following a review, it has raised its long-term local currency counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Czech Republic-based composite...
Nov 19 2002 // Standard & Poor’s has placed its ‘B+’ counterparty credit rating on Acceptance Insurance Cos. Inc. (AICI) and its operating units on CreditWatch with negative implications. At the same time, Standard...
Nov 19 2002 // Standard & Poor’s Rating Services announced that, although it was affirming the ‘AA’ insurer financial strength and counterparty credit ratings on Assicurazioni Generali SpA, the parent and main...
Nov 12 2002 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services affirmed its ratings on various synthetic transactions related to Aon Capital A, and removed them from CreditWatch with negative implications, where they were placed on Nov. 4,...
Nov 12 2002 // Standard & Poor’s announced that it has lowered its counterparty credit rating on Trenwick Group Ltd. to ‘CCC+’ from ‘B,’ lowered the ratings on its operating subsidiaries, and is keeping...
Nov 11 2002 // Three new reports published recently provide a sizeable assortment of diagnoses, prognoses, and remedies for increasingly volatile commercial insurance markets. When viewed as a compiled list of problems and solutions, one...
Nov 11 2002 // Three recently published reports provide a sizeable assortment of diagnoses, prognoses and remedies for increasingly volatile commercial insurance markets.3Q Commercial Market Index The Council of Insurance Agents &...
Nov 8 2002 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has lowered its long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on various operating entities of U.K.-based Royal & Sun Alliance...
Nov 7 2002 // Standard & Poor’s has lowered its counterparty credit and senior debt ratings on Chubb Corp. to single-‘A’-plus from double-‘A’-minus. In addition, the financial strength ratings on...
Nov 7 2002 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has affirmed its double-‘A’-minus counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on The Cincinnati Insurance Co., The Cincinnati Life...
Nov 6 2002 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has lowered its long-term counterparty credit and financial strength ratings, on Canadian property and casualty insurer Co-operators General Insurance Co....
Nov 6 2002 // Standard & Poor’s announced that Florida’s Brown & Brown Inc. will replace Golden State Bancorp in the S&P MidCap 400 Index after the close of trading on a date to be announced. S&P 500...
Nov 5 2002 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services revised the financial strength ratings of Highlands Insurance Co. and its subsidiairies from triple-“Cpi” to “R” after the firm’s holding company,...
Nov 5 2002 // Standard & Poor’s has lowered its financial strength rating on American Compensation Insurance Co. (ACIC) to single-‘Bpi’ from triple-‘Bpi’ because for year-end 2001 and 2000, ACIC had a...
Nov 1 2002 // Standard & Poor’s has removed from CreditWatch and affirmed its single- ‘B’-plus ratings on San Francisco-based USI Holdings Corp. (USI) after the company successfully completed its IPO, selling 9...
Nov 1 2002 // Standard & Poor’s has placed its ratings on Aon Corp., including its single-‘A’-minus counterparty credit rating, on CreditWatch with negative implications following the company’s third-quarter...
Nov 1 2002 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has affirmed its single-‘A’ long-term insurer financial strength and counterparty credit ratings on the French mutual insurance group Caisse...
Oct 28 2002 // Standard & Poor’s said that the growing sophistication of the global insurance industry could potentially lead to a dramatic change away from the historic highs and lows of cyclical underwriting, smoothing the...
Oct 28 2002 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services placed its “AA+” counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Employers Reinsurance Corp. and its wholly owned subsidiaries (collectively referred to as...
Oct 24 2002 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has revised its outlook on Switzerland’s Converium Group to negative from stable, while reaffirming its single-‘A’-plus long-term...