NU Online News Service, April 29, 2003, 3:41 p.m. EDT – U.S. life insurers did worse in 2002 than their full-year statutory financial results might suggest, according to a review of the results by Fitch Ratings, Chicago.
U.S. life insurers coped with a dismal economic environment last year by using reinsurance, accounting changes and sales of appreciated stock that might normally be kept in investment portfolios to dress up their earnings, the Fitch analysts write.