A.M. Best tests insurance companies’ resistance to COVID-19

A.M. Best will soon be putting insurance companies through a "stress test"; the objective is to evaluate their short, medium and long-term resistance to the coronavirus.

The test will particularly focus on risk-adjusted capital levels, investment portfolios and reserves adequacy.

For the record, AM. Best has already adopted such assessment procedure in the past: the first time during the 9/11 events and the second time during the debt crisis in the euro area (2010-2013).