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Storm Fern losses could match Elliot’s $8bn, remain ‘manageable’
Insurance
Early estimates put losses in the low single-digit billions; homes and autos hardest hit.   27 January 2026
Insurance
Ratings agency cites low oil prices and COVID-19 downturn as key factors for the outlook change.   5 June 2020
US market has eye on innovation
Insurance
The US re/insurance market is relatively stable and in good health as the industry gathers for the PCI conference in Miami this week—but carriers have one eye on cat losses and another on innovation and insurtech, Stefan Holzberger, chief rating officer at AM Best, told PCI Today.   29 October 2018
Insurance
The ratings agency believes Navigators' importance to its ultimate parent has diminished.   16 November 2020
Insurance
Fitch has removed 'rating watch positive and turned a negative outlook, while AM Best has taken PartnerRe off review following the sale collapse.   15 May 2020
Awards
Taking the top spot with 7.11, rating agency AM Best was closely followed by Standard and Poor’s with 6.90 and Moody’s with 6.33.   14 September 2014
Insurance
Rating agency AM Best has upgraded the issuer credit rating and outlook for the Dubai Insurance Company (DIC) following the insurer’s strong operating results and risk-adjusted capitalisation.   16 May 2014
Insurance
European insurance companies are increasingly concentrating on high-margin lines and cost efficiencies in order to meet return on equity (ROE) targets, according to AM Best.   28 August 2018
Insurance
Although consolidation over the past five years has considerably reduced the potential pool of partners, the pressure on re/insurers to engage in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) remains strong, and companies with strong third party capital management positions are seen as particularly attractive targets, Catherine Thomas, senior director of analytics at AM Best, told Baden-Baden Today.   23 October 2018
Insurance
A modeled single-event cyber catastrophe would generate “meaningful to significant” gross losses for three of the top 20 cyber insurance providers, ranging from 15 percent to 119 percent of these companies’ estimated 2022 policyholder surplus under a stress-test scenario, according to AM Best.   21 August 2018

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