Performance
Rating S&P’s New Method: Transparency Improved, But Execution Consistency Falls Short
In May, Standard & Poor's confirmed that it had finalized a 10-month "Request for Comment" (RfC) process around proposed changes to the rating agency's criteria for rating insurers and ...
P/C Loss Reserve Cycles Are Real: AM Best Analysis
The idea that carriers release loss reserves when property/casualty insurance markets soften and strengthen them in hard markets is more than a theory, according to a new analysis by rating agency ...
Zurich Defends Financial Reporting
Leaders of Zurich Insurance Group defended the quality of its financial reporting on Friday in response to media speculation and analysts' questions linking financial disclosure issues to recent ...
CEOs Behaving Badly; Performance Graded ‘F’ By Think Tank
With a silhouetted image of a cigar-smoking bigwig reading a failing report card on its cover, a Washington think tank published a study revealing that 38 percent America's top-paid CEOs were either ...
Future Profit Projections: Moody’s Analysis of Commercial Combined Ratios
Given the current level of commercial insurance price increases, which are outpacing loss ratio trends, analysts at Moody's Investors Service forecast that underwriting margins will also continue to ...
Commercial Insurance Rate Hikes Continuing; WC Profit Ahead in ’14: Moody’s
Moody's expects property/casualty commercial insurance rate hikes to continue for the balance of the year, making 2013 the third straight full year of rising rates for commercial lines carriers, ...
Top 10 Non-Life Reinsurers: A.M. Best Ranking
There is only one new name on the latest ranking of the top 10 global non-life reinsurers, with China Reinsurance (Group) Corp. replacing Transatlantic Reinsurance Co. on a list extracted from an ...
P/C Earnings Soar in Q2; Specialty Insurer Premiums Grow Most: Moody’s
In spite of slowing rate hikes, property/casualty insurers rated by Moody's reported an aggregate 58 percent jump in bottom-line results for second-quarter 2013, with combined ratio improvements and ...