COVID-19 Outbreak: AM Best Analysis and Commentary
To address the effects of COVID-19 on the insurance industry, we are developing stress tests to assess the impact of the pandemic and its secondary effects on our rated insurers. We are closely monitoring the financial impact on rated entities and will continue to provide updates on this rapidly changing situation.
Please visit this page regularly for the latest AM Best analysis and commentary.
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Latest AM Best's COVID-19 Analysis and Commentary
Access the Latest: Best’s Market Segment Outlooks
Best’s Special Report: Stress Testing of AM Best-Rated Insurance Companies Indicates Most Can Withstand Pandemic
MAY 18, 2020
Best’s Commentary: In Pandemic Response, U.S. Property/Casualty Insurers Returned $8.5 Billion in Premiums in First-Half 2020
OCTOBER 20, 2020
Best’s Market Segment Report: Southeast Asian Reinsurers Look to Life and Health for Growth
OCTOBER 19, 2020
AM Best Webinar: Title Industry Market Performance Review and Outlook
OCTOBER 19, 2020
Best’s Special Report: U.S. Health Insurers Post Record Profits in Second-Quarter 2020 Despite Pandemic
OCTOBER 14, 2020
AM Best Webinar: Pandemic Perspectives - Implications for the US P/C Market
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Best’s Special Report: COVID-19 Adds to Challenges for Bahrain’s Fragmented Insurance Market
OCTOBER 08, 2020
Best’s Commentary: Hurricane Delta Likely to Exacerbate Mexico Insurers’ COVID-19-Disrupted Claims Handling
OCTOBER 07, 2020
Additional AM Best's COVID-19 Analysis and Commentary
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Best’s Market Segment Report: Title Insurance Market Perseveres Amid Upheaval and Economic Uncertainty |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: Nigeria’s Insurance Market Offers Significant Potential Despite Headwinds |
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Press Release: AM Best to Join COVID-19 Litigation Trends Panel at the Re/Insurance Lounge |
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Best’s Special Report: U.S. Insurers’ Private Placement Assets Double in Decade, Now Face Pandemic Pressure |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: MENA Reinsurers Strive to Adapt to Testing Conditions |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: MENA Reinsurers Strive to Adapt to Testing Conditions |
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Best’s Special Report: COVID-19 Likely Will Pressure Medicaid Managed Care Revenue Streams |
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Best’s Special Report: Credit Rating Changes at First-Half 2020 Mixed as U.S. P/C Insurers Manage Challenging Mark |
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Best’s Special Report: U.S. Life/Health Credit Rating Upgrades Outnumber Downgrades in First-Half 2020 |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: Tough Operating Conditions Present Challenges for Sub-Saharan Reinsurance Markets |
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Best’s Special Report: COVID-19 Highlights Weaknesses in Insurers’ Enterprise Risk Management |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: More Hurdles for Crop Insurers in 2020 Following Poor 2019 |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: MENA Reinsurers Strive to Adapt to Testing Conditions |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: U.S. Mutual Insurance Companies Maintain Premium, Surplus Growth Trends in 2019 |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: Caribbean Property/Casualty Insurers Suffer Double Blow From Rising Reinsurance Rates, COVID-19 |
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Best’s Commentary: UK COVID-19 Business Interruption Court Ruling Brings Greater Clarity but Questions Remain |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: Expanding Opportunities Bolster U.S. Surplus Lines’ Growth and Operating Results |
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AM Best Webinar: Canada 2020 Hot Topics Panel Discussion |
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AM Best's Virtual Insurance Market Briefing: Toronto, Canada |
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Best’s Commentary: Insurance Liability Moves to the Head of the Class as School Year Begins |
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AM BestTV: Shifting Market Dynamics Help Spark 'Total Return Reinsurers' |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: COVID-19 Taking Its Toll on Canada’s Economy and Insurance Industry |
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AM BestTV: Market Dislocation Drives Growth for US Surplus Lines |
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AM BestTV: Canada P/C Insurers Well Positioned; Life Writers Face Volatility in 2020 |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: Global Reinsurers Maintain Equilibrium Through COVID-19 Turbulence |
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AM BestTV: Medicare Advantage Earnings Up 11% in 201 |
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Best’s Special Report: AM Best to Sponsor Bermuda Captive Conference’s Virtual Event |
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Best’s Special Report: Medicare Advantage Insurance Market Segment’s Strong Earnings Continue |
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Best’s Special Report: Rated Total Return Reinsurers Struggle to Contain Volatility |
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Best’s Commentary: 2020 California Wildfires May Lead to Further Spikes in Reinsurance Rates |
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Best’s Commentary: Hurricane Laura Losses Could Further Stress Insurers’ 2020 Earnings |
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Best’s Commentary: ILS Retrocession Capacity Further Squeezed in the Pandemic Era |
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Best’s Special Report: U.S. Property/Casualty Industry’s Underwriting, Net Income Drop in First-Half 2020 |
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Press Release: AM Best to Join Insurance-Linked Securities Focused Panel at the Re/Insurance Lounge
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Best’s Special Report: Corporate Bond Holdings Pose Risk to Insurers’ Balance Sheets |
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Register Now: State of the Global Reinsurance Market |
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Best’s Special Report: Understanding Country Risk Evaluation in Best’s Credit Ratings
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AM BestTV: Low Interest Rates, Potential 'Fallen Angels' Challenge Life/Annuity Writers |
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Best’s Special Report: For U.S. Insurers, Decade of Low Interest Rates Marked by Different Impact Severity, Strategies
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Best’s Market Segment Report: Commercial Insurance Market Dislocation Could Present New Opportunities for Captives |
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AM BestTV: Profitability Less Certain in U.S. Cyber Insurance Market as New Risks Emerge |
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AM Best Webinar: AM Best and the Current State of the Cyber Insurance Market |
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AM BestTV: Pandemic, Economic Issues Dampen Chile Insurance Market |
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AM BestTV: Pandemic Deals a Wild Card to US Personal Auto Insurers |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: Profitability Less Certain in U.S. Cyber Insurance Market as New Risks Emerge |
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AM Best Webinar: German Insurance Life and Non-Life Market Outlooks, Reinsurance Trends and Stress Testing the Impact of COVID-19 |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: U.S. Personal Auto Line of Business Stuck in Neutral as Fewer Claims Offset Premium Loss |
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Best’s Commentary: Insurance Capital Raising – Bolstering Existing Firms or Funding Start-Ups? |
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AM BestTV: Commercial Auto Endures Worst Results in 10 Years |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: Hardening Reinsurance Market Adds to Florida Property Insurers’ Headaches |
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AM Best Webinar: The State of the Florida Market |
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State of the Italian Insurance Market: COVID-19, Outlooks, Reinsurance Trends and Sovereign v Country Risk Impact on Ratings |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: U.S. Commercial Automobile Insurance Segment Records Decade-Worst Underwriting Loss in 2019 |
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AM Best APAC Webinar 2020: Understanding the 'New Normal' Insurance Landscape in Asia |
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Best’s Special Report: U.S. Insurers’ Private Equity Holdings Continue to Climb |
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Best’s Special Report: U.S. Life/Annuity Insurers’ Commercial Mortgage Loan Holdings Increasing; Credit Quality Decreasing |
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Best’s Special Report: Performance Bond Demand Spotlights Differences Between Approaches of European and US Models |
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AM BestTV: Workers' Comp Writers Brace for COVID-19 Hit |
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Rating a Captive: The Interactive Rating Process from Data Analysis to Rating Committee Decision |
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Best’s Commentary: Expansion of State Workers’ Comp to Include COVID-19 Exposure Would Be Credit Negative for Insurers |
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AM Best Webinar: GCC Insurance Market Trends, Outlook and Impact of Oil Price Movements and COVID-19 |
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AM BestTV: D&O Insurance Facing Seismic Shift |
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AM BestTV: Fewer Claims Than Expected Mute COVID-19 Impact on Health Insurers' 1Q Earnings |
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Best’s Special Report: Pandemic Creates a Severe Test for Municipal Bond Market |
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Best’s Special Report: U.S. Life/Annuity Industry Records 34% Rise in Pre-Tax Operating Earnings in 2019 |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: AM Best Revises Outlook on GCC Insurance Markets to Negative |
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AM Best Webinar: AM Best’s Approach to Country Risk and Sovereign Credit Concerns in the Credit Rating Process |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: COVID-19 Throws Spotlight on London Market Modernisation |
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Best’s Commentary: COVID-19 Impact on U.S. Health Insurance Companies Smaller Than Expected |
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Best’s Special Report: Reinsurers Brace for Pandemic-Fueled Spate of Mortgage Losses |
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AM Best Webinar: COVID-19 Stress Testing Results and Next Steps |
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AM Best Webinar: Market Dislocation Creates Opportunities for Captives |
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AM Best's Stress Test: COVID-19 Hitting Life/Health, Smaller Insurers Hardest |
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Webinar Playback: COVID-19 Implications for US Insurance and Reinsurance Markets |
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AM BestTV: AM Best Responds to IMF's 'Significant Revision' of 2020 Economic Outlook |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: Bail Bond Insurance Market Faces Legislative Headwinds |
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Best’s Commentary: Life/Health Cat Bonds Could Be ILS Market’s Most Loss-Affected Sector in COVID-19 Pandemic |
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Best’s Commentary: Two Months of Retroactive Business Interruption Coverage Could Wipe Out Half of Insurers' Capital |
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AM BestTV: BI Insurers Face 'Existential Threat' if Forced to Cover COVID-19 |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: AM Best Maintains Negative Outlook On Brazil’s Reinsurance Industry Amid COVID-19 Pandemic |
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Press Release: AM Best to Join Q&A Session on Pandemic’s Insurance Industry Impact at AAIS Virtual 2020 Main Event |
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AM Best Webinar: UK and London Market Non-Life Insurance, Trends, Outlook and Impact of COVID-19 |
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Best’s Commentary: COVID-19 Impacts Add to Deterioration in Underwriting Results of Singapore’s Non-Life Insurers |
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AM Best Webinar: Market Segment Outlooks for Argentina, Guatemala and Bolivia |
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AM BestTV: Insurers May Increasingly Look to Tap the Federal Home Loan Bank |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: AM Best Maintains Negative Outlook on Argentina’s Insurance Industry Amid COVID-19 Pandemic |
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AM Best Webinar: French Life and Non-Life Insurance Market Segments Outlooks |
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Best’s Special Report: Hit to Insurers’ Surplus from Equity Exposures Expected |
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AM BestTV: Pandemic Devastates World's Economies |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: AM Best Maintains UK Non-Life Insurance Market Outlook at Negative |
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AM BestTV: COVID-19 May Have Long-Term Implications on Trade Credit Risk |
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AM BestTV: Canada Life/Annuity Sector Outlook Changed to Negative |
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AM BestTV: Social Inflation May Impact Pandemic BI Claims |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: AM Best Revises US Commercial Lines Outlook to Negative; Holds Personal Lines at Stable |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: AM Best Revises Outlook on Private Mortgage Insurers to Negative as COVID-19 Hits Housing Market |
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Best’s Commentary: Global Reinsurers Resilient in Face of COVID-19-Related AdversityImpact of Low Oil Price and COVID-19 on GCC and Russian Insurers |
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AM Best Market Segment Outlooks: Life Insurance (Italy, France and the United Kingdom) |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: AM Best Holds Stable Outlook on U.S. Health Industry Amid COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis |
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Best’s Commentary: Global Reinsurers Resilient in Face of COVID-19-Related Adversity |
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Webinar Playback: AM Best's Latin America's Assessment on Mexican Insurers' Financial Strength in Light of COVID-19 |
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AM BestTV: Pandemic May Impact Sovereign Credit, Country Risks |
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AM BestTV: Event Cancellation Insurers May Exclude Future Pandemics |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: AM Best Revises Canada Life/Annuity Outlook to Negative |
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Webinar Playback: Impact of Oil Price Movements and COVID-19 on MENA Markets |
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Best’s Commentary: Social Inflation May Affect COVID-19 Business Interruption Losses |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: AM Best Revises Outlook on Mexico’s Insurance Industry to Negative on COVID-19 Pandemic Impact |
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Best’s Commentary: COVID-19 May Have Long-Term Implications on Trade Credit Insurance Market |
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AM BestTV: Recession Length Depends on COVID-19 Path |
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Best’s Commentary: Event Cancellation Insurance Losses Amid COVID-19 Outbreak May Hinge on Contract Wordings |
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AM BestTV: Coronavirus, Pandemics Test Insurers' Enterprise Risk Preparedness |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: AM Best Revises U.S. Disability Outlook to Negative on Expected COVID-19 Fallout |
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Best’s Commentary: Japanese Insurers Continue to Grapple With Global Market Volatility |
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Best’s Commentary: Health Insurers Adjust as COVID-19 Spreads in United States |
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AM BestTV: U.S. Health Insurers Adjust to COVID-19 Spread |
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Press Release: AM Best to Deploy Pandemic-Related Stress Test for Rated Insurance Companies |
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AM BestTV: Market Segment Outlook for US Life/Annuity Revised to Negative |
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Best’s Market Segment Report: AM Best Revises U.S. Life/Annuity Market Outlook to Negative |
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Best’s Commentary: Further Global Interest Rate Cuts Anticipated as Economic Buffer for Coronavirus Impact |
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AM BestTV: Spread of Coronavirus Prompts Closer Scrutiny of Range of Insurers |
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Best’s Commentary: U.S. Health Insurers Face Potential Rise in Claims Due to Coronavirus |
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Best’s Commentary: European Insurers Well-Positioned to Manage Potential Exposure to Pandemic Risk |
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Best’s Commentary: Southeast Asian Insurers Demonstrate Corporate Social Responsibility in Response to Coronavirus
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Best’s Commentary: Coronavirus Epidemic Impact on China’s Non-Life Insurance Market Likely to Be Limited
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Best’s Commentary: Coronavirus Highlights the Importance of Stress Testing
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