A.M. Best Revises Outlooks to Positive for Navigators Insurance Company, Its Subsidiary and The Navigators Group, Inc.
The revised outlooks for Navigators reflect its improved underwriting and operating performance in recent years, along with a strengthening of its risk-adjusted capitalization. The performance in core lines of business has benefited from strict underwriting discipline.
The rating affirmations reflect Navigators’ leading position as a global provider of insurance to the marine sector, the group's well-diversified book of business, its modest net windstorm exposure, management's conservative approach to risk management, underwriting and claims handling. Furthermore, the ratings consider the group's solid level of capitalization and historical profitability.
These positive rating factors are somewhat offset by the group's underwriting results in 2011 and 2012, which were not in line with the group’s overall 10-year history of profitability, and its below-average net investment yields and net investment ratios, driven by its conservative investment portfolio.
Navigators benefits from the financial and explicit support from its parent company, NAVG. NAVG’s debt-to-total capital, as of
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