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January 10, 2003 at 07:00 PM
NU Online News Service, Jan. 10, 6:12 p.m. – Allmerica Financial Corp., Worcester, Mass., is getting good reviews for its efforts to improve its capital position.
Insurance analysts from three major rating agencies have put out bulletins praising Allmerica’s actions and suggesting that they might raise the company’s ratings.
Allmerica pledged in September 2002 to take aggressive steps to cope with the effects of the stock market slump on its life insurance subsidiaries’ risk-based capital ratios. The company made good on its promise Wednesday by announcing plans to change its organizational structure, refinance funding agreements, reinsure guaranteed minimum death benefits linked to variable annuities, and sell its fixed universal life business to John Hancock Financial Services Inc., Boston.
