AM Best Downgrades California Earthquake Authority Credit Ratings January 18, 2023 AM Best downgraded the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) to B++ (Good) from A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating...
AM Best: Historic California Flooding Highlights Need for Robust Private Flood Market January 17, 2023 Private flood insurance accounts for over 40% of California’s entire flood market—a significantly larger share than in the other leading...
AM Best Downgrades Mid-Hudson Group December 14, 2022 Insurer analysts at AM Best have downgraded the ratings of three companies in the Mid-Hudson Group citing a 32.7% decline...
AM Best: Commercial Lines ‘Stable’ With a Close Eye on Inflation December 8, 2022 As a whole, the outlook for the U.S. commercial lines segment continues to be stable, according to AM Best, but...
Collapse of FTX Provides ‘Sobering Warning’ for Insurers About Governance Failings December 8, 2022 The collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX demonstrates the dangers of failures of corporate governance, according to a commentary published...
AM Best Assigns Positive Segment Outlook to MGAs, Other DUAEs December 7, 2022 Technology, talent and diverse sources of capital continue driving growth for managing general agencies and other delegated underwriting authority enterprises...
A Near-Term Return to Underwriting Profit in Auto ‘Highly Unlikely’: AM Best December 6, 2022 Apparently nothing has changed within the last several months to change AM Best’s negative outlook on the U.S. personal lines...
‘Droves’ of Global Re Market Entrants Unlikely; Outlook Stable: AM Best December 2, 2022 Will 2023 reinsurance renewals mark a turning point to a “true hard market” that attracts “new capital in droves” and...
Private Flood Insurance Market Growing; NFIP ‘Adrift’: AM Best November 28, 2022 By Chad Hemenway Hurricane Ian may result in one of the largest losses in the history of the National Flood Insurance Program and...
AM Best: Trouble Around the Bend for Commercial Auto Insurers After Good 2021? October 12, 2022 By Chad Hemenway For the first time in many years the commercial auto insurance segment enjoyed a combined ratio below 100 in 2021,...