Monthly Archives: April 2000

NPMI Rating Affirmed

S&P’s affirmed the triple “Bpi” financial strength rating assigned to Salem-based Northwest Physicians Mutual Insurance Co. (NPMI). In 1998, the...

Erie Gets Top Rating

For the eighth consecutive year, A.M. Best bestowed an “A++” rating on Erie Insurance Group and all its p/c companies....

Milbank Affirmed

S&P’s affirmed its financial strength rating on Milbank Insurance Co., a stock company licensed in 22 states whose primary lines...

S&P Rates Earthquake Notes

An issue of floating-rate notes, the payouts for which are linked to an index of California earthquakes, was assigned a...

FM Global Gets ‘A+’

FM Global was assigned its first rating by A.M. Best Co., an “A+,” in recognition of the insurer’s superior financial...

S&P Lowers Frontier Note Issue

Standard & Poor’s (S&P) long-term rating on the Frontier Insurance Co.-supported medium-term note issue was lowered from “BBB+” to “BB+.”...

Arrow Re Reaffirmed

The “A+” claims paying ability rating on the Bermuda-domiciled Arrow Reinsurance Company Ltd. (Arrow Re) was reaffirmed by DCR. The...

DCR Lowers Fremont General

Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co. (DCR) has made several ratings changes for Fremont General Corp. Fremont’s senior debt rating...

Travelers P&C on RatingAlert

Fitch IBCA announced that Travelers Property Casualty Corporation’s unsecured senior debt rating of “AA-” and its preferred stock rating of...

Two Sides to Every Story

Following a 10-month investigation by the CDI Fraud Division, Tina Anne Musso, also known as Tina Triano, was arraigned on...