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What They Are Saying About Effects of Trump Tax Cuts on Insurance Industry
Dec 22 2017 // Congress has passed and President Donald Trump has signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (HR1) into law. It is the biggest tax change in 30 years. Under the legislation, insurers, agencies and other businesses organized as C...
Island Nations, Such as Bahamas & Jamaica, at High Climate Change Risk: Moody’s
Dec 5 2017 // The Bahamas, Fiji, Jamaica and the Maldives have been identified as among the most vulnerable small island sovereigns in a report on the credit implications of climate change. The Solomon Islands and St. Vincent and the...
California Wildfires Threaten Significant Losses for P/C Insurers, Moody’s Says
Oct 16 2017 // Moody’s released a report on Monday assessing the impact of the wildfires in California on property/casualty insurers. “Based on history and the number of structures damaged, insured losses will run into the...
UK Faces ‘Substantial’ Risk of Failure of Brexit Talks, Moody’s Warns
Jul 19 2017 // The risk that the UK will tumble out of the European Union in two years without a Brexit deal is “substantial,” Moody’s Investors Service said. Such an outcome would affect everything from banks to buses...
Rising Seas May Wipe Out Jersey Towns and Millions in AAA Bonds
May 26 2017 // Few parts of the U.S. are as exposed to the threats from climate change as Ocean County, New Jersey. It was here in Seaside Heights that Hurricane Sandy flooded an oceanfront amusement park, leaving an inundated roller...
Whistleblower Loses Out on $864M Moody’s Ratings Settlement
Mar 3 2017 // A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a whistleblower lawsuit by a former Moody’s Investors Service managing director and said he deserves none of the $863.8 million that Moody’s agreed to pay to settle claims...
Canada’s P/C Insurance Market Stable with Good Demand: Moody’s
Dec 12 2016 // The outlook for the Canadian property and casualty (P/C) industry is stable, driven by good demand, strong underwriting discipline and solid balance sheets, says Moody’s Investors Service in a report. However, these...
Growth of China’s Shadow Banking Hikes Financial Risks for Banks, Insurers: Moody’s
Jul 27 2016 // Shadow banking activity in China has expanded further and now accounts for nearly a third of the total banking sector assets, raising financial risks in the world’s second-largest economy, rating agency Moody’s...
Costly Alberta Wildfires to Hit Q2 Results; Insurers Are Resilient: Ratings Reports
May 9 2016 // While the wildfires raging through northern Alberta and the city of Fort McMurray could bring one of the largest catastrophe losses in Canadian history, property insurers are resilient, according to A.M. Best and...
Self-Driving Cars to Create Long Term Challenges for Auto Insurers: Moody’s
Mar 29 2016 // Accident avoidance features in vehicles, such as automatic braking, adaptive cruise control, and lane departure prevention, are becoming more prevalent and will lead to lower accident frequency in the next five-to-10...
Moody’s, S&P, A.M. Best Release Ratings for AIG After Strategic Plan Outlined
Jan 28 2016 // American International Group Inc., which activist investor Carl Icahn is pressuring to divest assets, had the outlook on its credit rating changed to negative from stable by Standard & Poor’s after the insurer...
6 Forecasts for P/C Insurance in 2016
Jan 4 2016 // Some, but not all, experts see an improving U.S. economy in 2016 helping to boost the property/casualty (P/C) insurance sector. Some of these prognosticators are more optimistic than others. But most also anticipate...
Cyber Attacks on Private Sector a Growing Corporate Credit Risk: Moody’s
Nov 25 2015 // Cyber attacks on the private sector are an increasingly important risk in corporate credit analysis, U.S. ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service said this week. The threat of computer hacking varies from sector to...
Moody’s Says Splitting Up AIG Would Be Credit Negative
Nov 2 2015 // Moody’s Investor Service today said that a break-up of American International Group (AIG) and removal of its systemically important financial institution (SIFI) designation as called for by activist investors would...
Moody’s Index Aims to Measure Economic Impact of Terrorism
Oct 13 2015 // Can the impact of terrorism on economic growth be measured? Moody’s Investors Service has constructed a terrorism index to quantify the hit to gross domestic product, government spending, investment and borrowing...
Moody’s Sees 2015 as Turning Point for P/C Commercial Insurers
Oct 5 2015 // The outlook for the U.S. property/casualty commercial insurance sector is stable but insurers will begin to feel the pressure from compressing margins, according to Moody’s Investors Service. In a new report,...
Moody’s Sees 2015 as Turning Point for P/C Commercial Insurers
Sep 15 2015 // The outlook for the U.S. property/casualty commercial insurance sector is stable but insurers will begin to feel the pressure from compressing margins, according to Moody’s Investors Service. In a new report,...
Fairfax Financial to Benefit From its Acquisition of Brit plc: Moody’s Report
Feb 27 2015 // The proposed acquisition of Brit plc by Fairfax Financial Holdings is “credit positive” for Fairfax, according to Moody’s, which noted that the deal will significantly boost Fairfax’s underwriting...
Rating Agencies Warn OneBeacon After Loss Reserve Charge
Feb 12 2015 // OneBeacon Insurance Group has been dealt a ratings outlook warning from Fitch Ratings and an outright downgrade from Moody’s Investors Service, stemming from substantial adverse reserve development in the 20914...
Competition Ahead for Insurers
Dec 15 2014 // U.S. property/casualty insurers have cause for celebration as carriers reported higher overall earnings and premium levels in the 2014 third quarter versus the same period a year ago. Yet, at the same time Moody’s...
