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The power of the rating agencies. (Editorial Comment) (editorial)
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National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk &Benefits Management
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August 12, 1991
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The Power Of The Rating Agencies
Coming only days after the New Jersey department seized Mutual Benefit Life, the downgrading of six large life insurers by Moody's Investors Service caused the industry to hold its breath.
The announcements, made on a Friday, had many wondering what the following Monday would bring at the headquarters of the six companies. Would there be a reprise of Mutual Benefit - whose unraveling many feel started with a Standard & Poor's downgrade in May - with desperate policyholders besieging the home offices of some of the biggest names in the business?
This turned out not to be the case, according to reports from all the insurers involved in ...
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