Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has raised its long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on U.K.-based non-life insurer...
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Zurich Financial Services announced that its Brazilian subsidiary Zurich Participações e Representações Ltda. (Zurich Participações) has completed the acquisition of...
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has revised its outlook on Netherlands-based Eureko B.V. and related core subsidiaries to negative from...
Fairfax Financial Holdings said Monday it plans to spend C$686 million (US$550 million) to buy the remaining shares of Canadian...
A.M. best Co. has issued a new study of Asian insurance companies, which concludes that they “are expected to avoid...
Bermuda-based PartnerRe Ltd. has increased its estimate of claims from Hurricane Ike by $115 million to a total estimate of...
Paying landowners to let forests grow is promoted by the United Nations as a viable way to fight global warming,...
In an interview with Reuters, Munich Re’s Chairman, Nikolaus von Bomhard, expressed his hopes that fatter premiums would make 2009...
China’s 3 trillion yuan ($440 billion) insurance industry was largely insulated from the U.S. subprime crisis that battered AIG and...
In anew article – “Clarifying The Framework For Rating Natural Catastrophe Bonds -” Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services takes a...