Rating Agencies
Recapping 2020’s Insurance Numbers and What They Mean for 2021
The most recent tallies of financial results by rating agency analysts reveal that the property/casualty insurance industry weathered the storms of catastrophe losses and COVID, with one segment ...
In Ratings Agency First, A.M. Best Joins UN Program for Sustainable Insurance
AM Best became a signatory of the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI). The insurance industry plays an important role in supporting sustainable ...
Assessing Delegated Underwriting Authorities, MGAs: AM Best Explains
Over the last decade, as insurers and reinsurers have sought profitable opportunities for growth, they increasingly have handed the underwriting pen to managing general agents, managing general ...
As MGA Growth Explodes, AM Best Unveils New Assessments Coming Soon
With the volume of premium generated by managing general agents and other delegated underwriting authority enterprises (DUAEs) rocketing skyward in recent years, AM Best had decided it's time to ...
S&P Grants Zurich Insurance a Ratings Upgrade Over Improved Performance
Zurich Insurance's improved financial performance has earned it a ratings upgrade from Standard & Poor's. The Swiss insurer and its core operating entities now have an S&P rating of 'AA', up ...
Personal Auto Insurance Profits Unsustainable, Fitch Says
Highly profitable sub-90 personal auto combined ratios recorded by 10 publicly traded property/casualty insurers in 2020 don't look anything like the 106 recorded in 2016. But they're headed in that ...
U.S. E&S Insurers Win A.M. Best Outlook Upgrade Over Pandemic Resiliency
Resiliency from the U.S. excess & surplus lines market in the face of pandemic challenges has earned it an outlook upgrade from A.M. Best. A.M. Best revised its outlook for U.S. E&S to Stable ...
Repair Your Damaged Reputations, AM Best Tells UK Insurers
While most of the COVID-related problems that plagued U.K. commercial property insurers will abate after the March anniversary of lockdowns, battles with reinsurers and damaged reputations are ...