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• NZIA withdrawals not an industry-wide pull-back from ESG, says AM Best

  01 June 2023

  Building consensus can be challenging, says chief rating officer

• US business interruption legislation could wipe out half of insurers' capital

  06 May 2020

  Lawmakers in seven US states have filed bills requiring retroactive BI coverage

• US insurers in Covid-19 coverage crisis

  24 March 2020

  Insurers are being asked critical questions about their role in protecting consumers from the coronavirus pandemic. Despite calls from on high, the industry says it will not cover business-interruption and workers compensation losses. As the crisis deepens, industry bodies say such demands could threaten the stability of the sector. Sarfraz Thind reports

• My 'A' is not like yours

  18 August 2016

  Fitch and AM Best are wrangling over the equivalency of their IFS rating scale. Hugo Coelho investigates what sets them apart and the implications for insurers buying reinsurance protection