A.M. Best Comments on Unitrin's Purchase of Direct Response Corporation.OLDWICK, N.J. -- A.M. Best Co. has commented that the financial strength rating (FSR (Free System Resource) In Windows 3.x, the amount of unused memory in various 64K blocks reserved for managing current applications. Every open window takes some space in this area. See Windows memory limitation. ) of A (Excellent) and issuer credit rating (ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition or Image Character Recognition) The machine recognition of hand-printed characters as well as machine printing that is difficult to recognize. ) of "a" of Unitrin Property and Casualty Insurance Group (Unitrin) and its member companies are unchanged at this time following the announcement that Trinity Universal Insurance Company (Trinity) (Dallas, TX), the lead company of Unitrin, has reached a definitive agreement to purchase Direct Response Corporation (Wilmington, DE), and its subsidiaries. All ratings have a stable outlook. Also unchanged are the ratings of the life insurance subsidiaries of Unitrin's ultimate parent, Unitrin, Inc. (Chicago, IL) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :UTR UTR Untranslated Region (genetics) UTR Unicode Technical Report UTR Unique Taxpayer Reference (UK Inland Revenue) UTR Unable to Reach UTR Unable to Reproduce UTR University Technical Representative ). The debt ratings of Unitrin, Inc. are unchanged as well. For Best's Ratings Best's rating A rating A.M. Best Co. assigns to insurance companies based on the company's ability to meet its obligations to its policyholders. , an overview of the rating process and rating methodologies, please visit www.ambest.com/ratings. Founded in 1899, A.M. Best Company is a global full-service credit rating organization dedicated to serving the financial and health care service industries, including insurance companies, banks, hospitals and health care system providers. For more information, visit www.ambest.com. |
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