Description: Panelists discuss the importance of credit-worthiness to the customer of an insurance company, a brief history and description of the Standard & Poor's and Moody's rating systems, the efforts an insurance company goes through in obtaining ratings by outside agencies, the efforts required to maintain the ratings, and the importance of the ratings to the insurance company. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 13, No. 3.

Description: Presented at June 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the National Association Of Insurance Commissioners' Early Warning System, A.M. Best Company ratios, Conning and Company solvency ratios, and California Department of Insurance Empirical ratios.