{"id":21880,"date":"2017-07-26T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businessnewsbox.com\/?guid=504ba3df75e51e4fb4d225455171e0e6"},"modified":"2017-07-26T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T21:25:00","slug":"a-m-best-comments-on-credit-ratings-of-markel-corporation-following-announced-acquisitions-of-state-national-companies-inc-and-costa-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessnewsbox.com\/a-m-best-comments-on-credit-ratings-of-markel-corporation-following-announced-acquisitions-of-state-national-companies-inc-and-costa-farms.htm","title":{"rendered":"A.M. Best Comments on Credit Ratings of Markel Corporation Following Announced Acquisitions of State National Companies, Inc. and Costa Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OLDWICK, N.J.&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;A.M. Best has commented that the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) of \u201cbbb+\u201d of Markel Corporation (Markel) [NASDAQ:MKL] (Glen Allen, VA) is unchanged following the announcement today of the company\u2019s planned acquisitions of State National Companies, Inc. [NASDAQ:SNC] (State National) and Costa Farms, a non-insurance entity being acquired by Markel\u2019s Markel Ventures subsidiary. All Long-Term Issue Credit Ratings of Markel and all Financial Strength R<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OLDWICK, N.J.&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;A.M. Best has commented that the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) of &ldquo;bbb+&rdquo; of Markel Corporation (Markel) [NASDAQ:MKL] (Glen Allen, VA) is unchanged following the announcement today of the company&rsquo;s planned acquisitions of State National Companies, Inc. [NASDAQ:SNC] (State National) and Costa Farms, a non-insurance entity being acquired by Markel&rsquo;s Markel Ventures subsidiary. All Long-Term Issue Credit Ratings of Markel and all Financial Strength R<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessnewsbox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessnewsbox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessnewsbox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessnewsbox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessnewsbox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businessnewsbox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessnewsbox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessnewsbox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessnewsbox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}