Regulation & Compliance
Fitch: More M&A in 2016 Won’t Take the Market Blues Away
While more M&A deals are likely among Bermuda insurers and reinsurers in 2016, they won't do much to reduce pressures created by a limp and heavily competitive market, Fitch Ratings said in a new ...
Diversification Doesn’t Always Help Ratings: S&P
Weighing in on one of the key points of conflict that pitted American International Group's Peter Hancock against investor Carl Icahn in recent months, Standard & Poor's said that not all types ...
American Modern to Pull Out of Lender-Placed Insurance
American Modern Insurance Group plans to get out of the lender-placed insurance business, with a wind-down of the division set to take place over the next two years. The Ohio-based residential ...
S&P Frees GEICO, National Indemnity, Gen Re from CreditWatch Negative Status
Berkshire Hathaway's insurance subsidiaries are no longer on CreditWatch Negative with Standard & Poor's. The ratings entity removed National Indemnity Co., GEICO and General Reinsurance Corp. ...
A.M. Best 2016 Prediction: Lower U.S. P/C Underwriting Profit With Market Cracks
U.S. property/casualty insurers, fresh off a third consecutive year of underwriting profit in 2015, will likely achieve this again in 2016. At the same time, the market will develop some cracks along ...
Understanding A.M. Best’s New Capital Model: Matthew Mosher Q&A (Part 2)
A.M. Best is overhauling the calculation of the Best's Capital Adequacy Ratio used in its assessments of insurer capital strength. In part 1 of an interview with Carrier Management, Matthew Mosher, ...
Q&A: Don’t React to Rumors on A.M. Best’s New Model, COO Mosher Says
A.M. Best is overhauling the calculation of the Best's Capital Adequacy Ratio used in its assessments of insurer capital strength, but higher resulting risk charges and correspondingly lower BCAR ...
BCAR Revisited: Understanding A.M. Best’s New Model
Carriers can toss out old playbooks that helped them map financial metrics into A.M. Best ratings, according to rating agency analysts, who are putting finishing touches on a new capital adequacy ...