Puerto Rico’s financial sector, one of the island’s key economic components, seems to be rebounding for the first time in four years, reporting $171 billion in combined assets during the second quarter of 2011.
For the second time this year, A.M. Best Co. has downgraded National Life Insurance Company’s ratings, this time to C++ (Marginal) from B- (Fair) and issuer credit rating to “b” from “bb-.” The agency left the door open to further downgrades Friday.
Boston-based AIR Worldwide estimated Friday that insured losses in the Caribbean from Hurricane Irene will reach between $500 million and $1.1 billion, with the Bahamas accounting for more than 60 percent of the insured loss.