A.M. Best Affirms Ratings of Navigators Insurance Company, Its Subsidiary and The Navigators Group, Inc.
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The ratings reflect Navigators’ strong level of risk-adjusted capitalization and historical operating profitability coupled with its leading position within the global marine sector. Furthermore, the ratings recognize management’s conservative approach to risk selection and its ongoing efforts to further diversify Navigators’ book of business by targeting specific niches of business.
These positive rating factors are somewhat offset by Navigators’ declining underwriting results in most recent years, elevated (though declining in recent years) ceded reinsurance leverage and growth in relatively new lines of business, some of which have been unprofitable. Despite Navigators’ historically strong overall underwriting performance, underwriting results declined in 2010 and 2011 due to adverse development of loss reserves for several lines of business, the continuation of the run-off of several programs and large industry-wide losses in the energy and marine segments.
Management continues to implement corrective actions that include re-underwriting and exiting unprofitable business. In addition, the companies continue to benefit from the financial flexibility and explicit support provided by
The stable outlook acknowledges A.M. Best’s expectations that Navigators will continue to maintain its level of capitalization and operating performance prospectively.
The methodology used in determining these ratings is Best’s Credit Rating Methodology, which provides a comprehensive explanation of A.M. Best’s rating process and contains the different rating criteria employed in the rating process. Key criteria utilized include: “Risk Management and the Rating Process for Insurance Companies”; “Understanding BCAR for Property/Casualty Insurers”; “Rating Members of Insurance Groups”; “The Treatment of Terrorism Risk in the Rating Evaluation”; “Insurance Holding Company and Debt Ratings”; and “Catastrophe Analysis in A.M. Best Ratings.” Best’s Credit Rating Methodology can be found at www.ambest.com/ratings/methodology.
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