AM Best Affirms Credit Ratings of HDI Global Select Insurance Company

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AM Best Affirms Credit Ratings of HDI Global Select Insurance Company

2025-01-23 22:05 Last Updated At：22:22

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 23, 2025--

HDI Global Insurance Company(HGIC), a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of international Corporate & Specialty insurer, HDI Global SE (HDI), today announced that it has received the AM Best Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A+ (Superior) for HDI Global Select Insurance Company. The outlook of these credit ratings is stable.

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Receiving this affirmation from AM Best is consistent with HDI’s global rating, and further represents the Group's commitment to enhancing its offerings for the U.S. Corporate & Specialty insurance market by expanding its product offerings to a growing distribution and customer base. In December 2023, HGIC announced its acquisition of Indiana Lumbermens Insurance Company (ILIC), which is widely licensed including a Treasury listing (T-listing). HGIC later renamed ILIC as HDI Global Select Insurance Company and redomiciled the company to Illinois consistent with its place of domicile.

The acquisition provides an opportunity for HGIC to establish strategic partnerships and enter the surety market, among other lines of business. One such strategic partnership was launched earlier last year with Hallmark Financial Services where HDI Global Select Insurance Company provides capacity and product development support for Hallmark’s General Aviation and small to medium-sized commercial Property and Casualty insurance products.

In response to the affirmation, Marco Hensel, Chief Underwriting Officer of HGIC, said: “HDI Global Select Insurance Company’s rating affirmation by AM Best highlights our strong presence in the U.S. commercial insurance market and underscores our measured approach to insuring both domestic and global risks. Acting as a True Partner in Transformation for our clients, we continue to implement our global underwriting growth strategy. Through strategic partnerships and sound underwriting discipline, we are poised to continue growing our portfolio and are confident that we can offer a uniquely beneficial value proposition to both our insureds and business partners.”

About HDI Global SE (HDI)

Corporate & Specialty Insurer HDI Global SE (HDI) meets the needs of SMEs, larger companies, middle market and corporate clients with insurance solutions that are specifically tailored to their requirements. In addition to HDI's prominent position in the German and broader European market, the company has access to its own worldwide HDI Global Network covering more than 175 countries through its own HDI foreign branch offices, subsidiaries, affiliated companies, and network partners.

In the United States, HDI operates through its three (3) wholly owned subsidiaries, HDI Global Insurance Company, a commercial property and casualty insurer headquartered in Chicago, IL and licensed in all 50 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, HDI Global Select Insurance Company, a commercial property and casualty insurer licensed in Washington D.C., and in all US states, and HDI Specialty Insurance Company, an Illinois domestic surplus lines insurer who provides both primary and excess coverage to specialized industries and is also authorized to write business nationwide.

Acting as the Partner in Transformation, HDI Global SE leads more than 5,100 International Programmes and offers its multinational client’s compliant coverage worldwide. HDI Global SE is the Corporate & Specialty Division of the Talanx Group and has been a leading insurer for several decades. Approximately 5,000 employees in this division generated insurance revenue (gross) of approx. EUR 9.1 billion in the year 2023 (according to IFRS 17).

The rating agency Standard & Poor’s has given the Talanx Primary Group a financial strength rating of A+/stable (strong) and AM Best has assigned the A+ Rating. Talanx AG is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in the MDAX.

Disclaimer

This news release may include forward-looking statements which are based on certain assumptions, expectations and opinions of the management of Talanx AG and HDI Global SE. These statements are, therefore, subject to certain known or unknown risks and uncertainties. A variety of factors, many of which are beyond Talanx AG’s and HDI Global SE’s control, affect our business activities, business strategy, results, performance and achievements. Should one or more of these factors or risks or uncertainties materialize, actual results, performance or achievements of Talanx AG and HDI Global SE may vary materially from those expressed or implied in the relevant forward-looking statement. Talanx AG and HDI Global SE do not guarantee that the assumptions underlying such forward-looking statements are free from errors nor do Talanx AG and HDI Global SE accept any responsibility for the actual occurrence of the forecasted developments. Talanx AG and HDI Global SE neither intend, nor assume any obligation, to update or revise these forward-looking statements in light of developments which differ from those anticipated.

Former NYPD officer faces sentencing in cooler throwing death

NEW YORK (AP) — A former New York City police sergeant is set to be sentenced Thursday for tossing a picnic cooler full of drinks at a fleeing suspect, who then crashed his motorized scooter and died.

The ex-officer, Erik Duran, was convicted of manslaughter in the 2023 death of Eric Duprey. The former sergeant, who said he was trying to protect other officers from the approaching scooter, faces up to 15 years in prison.

The case has animated police on one hand and accountability activists on the other. Duran's union, the Sergeants Benevolent Association, says thousands of officers have signed an online petition calling for him to be spared prison. Meanwhile, a couple of dozen protesters demonstrated outside a Bronx courthouse Thursday to demand justice for Duprey.

Duran was part of a narcotics policing group that conducted a “buy-and-bust” operation in the Bronx on Aug. 23, 2023. Police said Duprey sold drugs to an undercover officer, then tried to flee on a scooter.

Surveillance video showed Duprey driving the motorized scooter on a sidewalk toward a group of people. As he approached, the then-sergeant — who wasn't in uniform — picked up a bystander's cooler and thew it.

The container full of ice, water and sodas struck Duprey. He lost control of the scooter, slammed into a tree and crashed onto the pavement.

Duprey, 30, wasn't wearing a helmet. He sustained fatal head injuries and died almost instantly, according to prosecutors with New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office.

They argued that Duran had enough time to warn others to move but instead hurled the cooler because he was angry.

Duran, however, testified that he made a split-second decision to keep other officers safe from the scooter speeding toward them.

“He was gonna crash into us,” Duran said in court, adding that “all I had time for was to try again to stop or to try to get him to change directions.”

He testified that he immediately tried to help Duprey after seeing the crash and the extent of the man's injuries.

Duran opted to have a judge, not a jury, decide the case. Judge Guy Mitchell found him guilty, saying that his status as a police officer “has no bearing” on the case.

But Sergeants Benevolent Association President Vincent Vallelong has said the conviction sent “a terrible message to hard-working cops” about the costs of defending themselves and fellow officers.

Duran was a New York Police Department officer for 13 years before he was suspended after the crash. He was dismissed from the force after his conviction this past February.

Duprey worked as a delivery driver and had three young children. His mother, who said she was on a video call with him right before he died, disputed the police claims that he sold drugs and fled from officers.

A lawyer for Duprey's family, Jon Roberts, said they are “hopeful that the court will do justice for Eric and the loss that the entire family has endured and hope that this marks the beginning of the healing process.”