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AIG’s Mortgage Insurer Woos Business Amid FHA Shutdown
American International Group Inc.'s mortgage insurer, whose biggest rival is a U.S. agency, is wooing borrowers with the prospect that they'll avoid delays tied to the partial government shutdown. ...
Stanford Case Triggers Supreme Court Clash Over Securities Laws
The U.S. Supreme Court debated the reach of the federal securities laws, questioning whether investors can sue law firms and outside companies for their alleged roles in R. Allen Stanford's $7 ...
Evans to Head New International Insurance Platform at Endurance
Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. announced Monday that Graham Evans will be joining the company as executive vice president and head of International Insurance. Evans, a 25-year veteran of the ...
Tower Reserve Charge Prompts Fitch Downgrade, Carrier Review of Options
Tower Group International, Ltd. announced reserve and goodwill charges representing over 60 percent of year-end 2012 shareholder's equity Monday, prompting Fitch Ratings to cut the financial strength ...
Ironshore Offering $300M Capacity for Global Terror Cover
Ironshore Inc. announced Monday that $300 million of capacity is now available through its global terrorism and sabotage program underwritten by Ironshore's Lloyd's Pembroke Syndicate 4000. ...A.M. Best Downgrades American Safety RRG
On Monday, A.M. Best Co. announced that it downgraded the financial strength rating (FSR) of American Safety Risk Retention Group, Inc. to B++ (Good) from A (Excellent). Best noted that American ...
Moody’s: China’s P/C Insurers to Benefit from Shanghai Free Trade Zone
The new Shanghai free trade zone should benefit property/casualty insurers, particularly those in marine/cargo and liability insurance, according to Moody's Credit Outlook. On Sept. 29, the date that ...
Experts See U.S. Default As Financial Apocalypse
Anyone who remembers the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. little more than five years ago knows what a global financial disaster is. A U.S. government default, just weeks away if Congress ...