"I'm a 'triple-A' locked in an 'A-minus' body. It's very frustrating." That's how Donald Kramer, chief executive officer of Ariel Re, began his answer to a question about rating agency activity

Premiums remain flat overall, although two top insurers show double-digit

Newark, Calif.-based Risk Management Solutions said today that based on results from its revised hurricane modeling, annualized insurance losses will jump 40 percent on average across the Gulf Coast,

Initial, unconsolidated regulatory filings published online in Highline Data's Insurance Analyst PRO database put the net industry combined ratio for 2005 at nearly 101, compared to 98 in 2004 and jus

The question, posed to RMS President and CEO Hemant Shah, was whether Katrina was a "tail event"--one with a low probability of occurrence, plotted at the far right or tail-end of curves, known as

Katrina's lessons extend beyond modelers, to rating agencies and

Changes coming on newer versions to reflect increasing hurricane

Ceding companies using alien reinsurers will be met with higher capital charges in the Standard & Poor's rating model if collateral requirements go away, said Steven Dreyer, managing director and