Rating Agencies
A.M. Best: Half-Year Results Hint at Year Three of Underwriting Profits
The property/casualty insurance industry is likely to post a third consecutive year of underwriting profits, considering its performance in the first half of the year and barring any late year ...
Zurich Outlook Still OK With S&P
Less than a week after A.M. Best announced that it would change the outlook on "A+" financial strength rating of Zurich Insurance Co. Ltd. to negative, Standard & Poor's has weighed in with a ...
Zurich’s Losses Lead to ‘Negative’ Ratings Outlook from A.M. Best
Zurich Insurance Company Ltd.'s A.M. Best ratings outlook is revised from stable to negative, following the company's disclosure of $275 million in losses from explosions at the Port of Tianjin in ...
Will ILS Investors Run for Cover After the Storm?
Most industry pundits agree that alternative capital is now a permanent fixture in the reinsurance marketplace. Where there is less agreement, however, is whether more opportunistic alternative ...
Surplus Lines Posts Record-Breaking Year for 2014
The surplus lines industry broke records in 2014, growing direct premium written in 2014 to $40.2 billion—the highest point in history, reports A.M. Best's "2014 Special Report U.S. Surplus ...
Top 25 Non-Life Reinsurers: A.M. Best’s 2015 Ranking
Catlin Group rose into the ranks of the top 25 global non-life reinsurers—even before considering the impact of a combination with XL Group—but no new names appeared among the top 10, according ...
S&P Upgrades SCOR to AA-
Standard & Poor's upgraded its insurer financial strength rating on SCOR SE to AA- from A+, the rating agency announced Friday, citing the reinsurer's strong competition position as a factor ...
Tier 1 Reinsurers More Resilient than Smaller Firms in Current Market: Fitch
Major tier 1 reinsurers stand to benefit most from a changing reinsurance market and mounting competitive pressures, while small monoline companies will be the hardest hit, according to a reinsurance ...