Buying American commercial insurers is a “strategy that could prove rewarding” for Canadian insurance companies, executives from Toronto-based DBRS wrote in a report released Thursday. Expanding into the U.S. commercial space “requires significant resources,” wrote Stewart McIlwraith, senior vice president…
MSA Research Inc. (MSA) announced on Monday that it will carry exclusively the insurer ratings of DBRS Ltd. on its MSA Research Platform and printed reports. With this partnership, up-to-date ratings from DBRS will now be available at the fingertips…
Toronto-headquartered credit rating firm DBRS Limited has estimated that the total claim costs for the Fort McMurray wildfire will likely be in the range of $2 billion to $6 billion. DBRS said in a briefing on Friday that it is…