Rating Agencies
First Storm Surge-Only Bond Gets S&P Rating
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services announced Tuesday that it rated the first storm surge catastrophe bond—MetroCat Re Ltd.—a $200 million issuance sponsored by First Mutual Transportation ...
State Insurance Commissioners Hire Moody’s Critic Kolchinsky
Eric Kolchinsky, the former Moody's Investors Service analyst who told Congress the ratings company cared more about money than accuracy, was hired by the National Association of Insurance ...
G-SII Designations Might Fuel Restructurings: S&P
New requirements that will be imposed on insurers that the Group of 20's Financial Stability Board has designated to be global systemically important insurers may motivate G-SII restructurings down ...
A.M. Best Revises Give Thumbs Up To Lloyd’s
On Friday, A.M. Best Europe–Rating Services Limited announced that it revised the outlook of its A (excellent) financial strength rating for Lloyd's to positive, affirming the rating and moving the ...
Fitch Sees Limited Credit Improvement For G-SIIs; Predicts Some Will Work To Get Off List
Reacting to the Financial Stability Board's identification of nine global systemically important insurers, Fitch Ratings sees only a "modest improvement" in the insurers' credit profiles, with higher ...
Judge Lets U.S. Pursue $5B Fraud Lawsuit Against S&P
The U.S. government may proceed with its $5 billion lawsuit accusing Standard & Poor's of misleading investors by inflating its credit ratings, after a federal judge rejected the rating agency's ...Enstar Deal Prompts A.M. Best Review Of Torus
A.M. Best Co. put the A-minus (excellent) financial strength ratings of Torus Specialty Insurance Company and Torus National Insurance Company under review with negative implications yesterday. The ...
Sharp Interest Rate Spike Could Wipe Out More Than $100B U.S. P/C Surplus: Moody’s
For each 1 percentage point rise in interest rates, the value of bonds held by the U.S. property/casualty insurance industry will decline by about $40 billion, representing roughly 7 percent of ...