Performance
D&O Pricing Catching Up To Loss Trends: Fitch
Direct written premiums for the directors and officers liability insurance line rose 6.9 percent last year, according to a recent analysis by Fitch Ratings, which also shows that direct loss ratios ...
External Perspective: Business, Taxes and Responsibility
In recent months, people and their politicians around the world have been astonished to learn that big companies and billionaires will go to extraordinary lengths to pay lower taxes. Thanks to the ...
Understanding S&P’s New Insurance Rating Criteria: Rodney Clark Q&A
Late last month—in advance of the May 7, 2013 publication of a new rating methodology for insurers by Standard & Poor's—S&P Managing Director Rodney Clark gave Carrier Management a ...
S&P’s New Insurance Criteria Released; Method Would Have Spotted AIG’s Past Problems
Incorporating lessons learned from historical periods for industry stress, including the near-failure of American International Group, Standard & Poor's published a revised rating methodology for ...
Claims Down, Premiums Up for Reinsurers
Low damage claims and rising premiums helped to shield earnings at German reinsurers Munich Re and Hannover Re in the first quarter, as the sector battles to shore up profits amid record low interest ...AIG Restructuring Successful, P/C Subs Now A-Plus: S&P
The restructuring that reshaped American International Group over the past two years has been successful in the opinion of analysts for Standard & Poor's, who boosted the rating for AIG's the ...
Lessons of Reinhart-Rogoff: Lawrence Summers
The economics commentariat and no small part of the political debate in recent weeks has been consumed with the controversy surrounding the work of my Harvard colleagues (and friends) Carmen Reinhart ...
PHLY’s New CEO Looks Ahead To Innovation & Profit
Philadelphia Insurance celebrated its 50 anniversary last year—before Robert O'Leary took the helm as chief executive officer. A video on the company's website commemorating the event ends with ...