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SCOR Warns of $246 Million 2002 Loss

Oct 30 2002 // France’s SCOR Group, the world’s 8th largest reinsurer, issued a profit warning today, stating that: “a net loss estimated at around EUR 250 million [$246 million] is expected for the full year...

Fitch Maintains SCOR’s ‘A+’ Rating with Rating Watch Negative

Oct 29 2002 // Fitch Ratings announced that it will maintain its ‘A+’ insurer financial strength (IFS) rating of SCOR Group, and the ‘A’ Long-term and the ‘F1’ Short-term ratings of SCOR, but will keep...

S&P Downgrades SCOR Ratings to ‘A’ from ‘A+’

Oct 22 2002 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has lowered its long-term insurer financial strength and counterparty credit ratings on France’s SCOR and its subsidiaries to single-‘A’...

SCOR Plans 400 Million Euro Capital Increase

Sep 30 2002 // France’s SCOR Group announced that it has called a special meeting of its The Board of Directors for November 5 to consider a capital increase of around 400 million euros ($393.4 million). The increase would enable...

A.M. Best Affirms SCOR’s ‘A’ (Excellent) Ratings

Sep 27 2002 // A.M. Best announced that it has affirmed the “A (Excellent)” financial strength rating of France’s SCOR Group with a stable outlook. “The affirmation reflects SCOR’s maintenance of excellent...

S&P Stands Pat on SCOR, Gerling Ratings

Sep 24 2002 // Standard & Poor’s announced that its ratings on Gerling-Konzern Globale Ruckversicherungs-AG (GKG) and related entities will “remain on CreditWatch with developing implications,” and that its...

SCOR Terminates Talks with Gerling

Sep 23 2002 // France’s SCOR Group announced that it has broken off talks with Germany’s Gerling Group to acquire its life reinsurance operations, and certain non-life activities, “due to current capital market...

S&P Lowers Gerling Global Re’s Ratings to ‘BBB’

Sep 5 2002 // Standard & Poor’s announced that it has lowered its long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Germany’s Gerling-Konzern Globale Ruckversicherungs-AG (GKG), the reinsurance arm...

SCOR 1st Half Net Profit Down 58% to €21 Million – In Talks with Gerling

Sep 4 2002 // SCOR, France’s largest reinsurer, reported that its 1st half net income had dropped 58 percent to € 21 million* from € 50 million* in the same period last year, due to the now familiar problem of declining equity...

SCOR Reports 16 Percent Rise in Premium Income

Aug 8 2002 // For the first six months of the year French reinsurer SCOR registered a robust 16 percent rise in premium income at constant exchange rates. The company attributed the rise to improving non-life reinsurance rates and the...

Argonaut Obtains Renewal Rights to Fulcrum Excess and Surplus Lines from SCOR

Apr 17 2002 // Argonaut Group, Inc. announced that it has reached an agreement with SCOR Group to acquire the renewal rights and certain other assets of SCOR subsidiary Fulcrum Insurance Company, an excess and surplus lines’...

SCOR Launches Multi-Continental CAT Bond with RMS Technical Help

Jan 28 2002 // On Jan. 3, French reinsurer SCOR Group launched the second installment of its innovative Atlas Re catastrophe bond, with technical analysis and parameters provided by Newark, Calif.-based Risk Management Solutions (RMS)...

SCOR Hit By Late Claims, Estimates $223 Million Loss for 2001

Jan 16 2002 // France’s SCOR announced that a late surge in claims that emerged at the end of the year has led to a downward revision of its earnings estimate for 2001. The company stated that, “In view of the combined impact...

A.M. Best Lowers SCOR Ratings, Removes from Review

Jan 15 2002 // A.M. Best announced that it has downgraded the financial strength rating of France’s SCOR to A (Excellent) from A+ (Superior) and has removed the rating from under review. The new rating also applies to all of...

RMS and SCOR Structure $150 Million CAT Bond

Jan 7 2002 // The innovative feature of the CAT Bond consists of easily ascertainable parametric triggers for the three geographic regions covered by the transaction.”For the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Los Angeles, the...

S&P Rates SCOR’s Irish Sub ‘AA-‘

Dec 28 2001 // Standard & Poor’s announced that it has assigned its double-‘A’-minus insurer financial strength and counterparty credit ratings to newly created Dublin-based reinsurer Irish Reinsurance Partners...

S&P Affirms SCOR Ratings, Off CreditWatch – Assigns Alea ‘BBB’ Rating

Dec 20 2001 // Standard & Poor’s affirmed its ratings on French reinsurer SCOR and its subsidiaries and removed them from CreditWatch. It also assigned a triple-‘B’-minus counterparty credit rating to Alea Group...

SCOR Posts Strong 3Q Premium Gains, Up 45%

Nov 19 2001 // SCOR Group, France’s largest reinsurer, posted impressive 45 percent premium income gains for the third quarter to € 3.477 ($3.1 billion). The figures include premiums attributable to the recently acquired SCOR...

Will Reinsurance Rebound from Terrorist Strikes in the U.S.’

Oct 29 2001 // If the nautical term best applied to the reinsurance industry last year this time would have been “Steady as she goes,” after the catastrophe that struck the U.S. on Sept. 11, the French term “sauve qui...

Will Reinsurance Rebound from Terrorist Strikes in the U.S.’

Oct 8 2001 // If the nautical term best applied to the reinsurance industry last year at this time would have been “steady as she goes,” after the catastrophe that struck the U.S. on Sept. 11, the French term “sauve...