Rating Agencies
Liberty Mutual’s Financial Strength Ratings Won’t Be Harmed by State Auto Acquisition: Fitch Ratings
Liberty Mutual Holding Company's planned $1 billion cash acquisition of State Auto Group should not affect its financial strength rating at all, Fitch Ratings said. The reason: Liberty Mutual is ...
Title Insurer Settles SEC Charges On Cyber Controls, Pays Nearly $0.5M
Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced the resolution of charges against First American Financial Corporation alleging lax cybersecurity controls and procedures, with the federal ...
CEO Views: Successes and Failures in Dealing With Pandemic Challenges
As insurance professionals prepare for mask-free life and opportunities to exchange ideas in person, industry leaders took the virtual stage again at a midyear conference, recounting industry lessons ...
Federal Lawmakers Probing CNA Ransom, Cyber Insurance Payouts
Late last week, federal lawmakers requested information from Chicago-based insurer CNA about a March 21 cyber attack on the company and about a reported $40 million ransom CNA paid to end the ...
Carriers Struggle to Transform Innovation Efforts Into Results: AM Best
Although COVID-19 forced many insurers to seek out innovative solutions, most companies still have room for improvement, according to rating agency AM Best. In a recent analysis of innovation ...
One Year In: How Insurers Are Doing on AM Best Innovation Assessments
In early March 2020, AM Best released Scoring and Assessing Innovation, our formalized criteria for measuring a company's innovativeness. Within weeks of its official launch, this methodology was put ...
To A.M. Best, PURE Group Rates an A+
PURE Group, an insurer focused on the high-net-worth market, has seen it's AM Best financial strength rating upgraded to A+. The Superior rating is a change from its previous financial strength ...
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 ...