Argonaut Increases Reserves, Takes a Loss in 1999

By: Workers' Comp Executive - The journal of record for the workers' comp community in California.

LOS ANGELES -- Like the rest of its California brethren, Argonaut Group (Nasdaq: AGII) too has fallen victim to the venom of the reserve-boost bug. To keep the itch to a minimum, Argonaut announced Jan. 22 that it was daubing $31.7 million worth of salve to cool its reserves. The reserve adjustment is on a pretax basis and it concerns accident years 1998 and 1999. The company made the announcement in a news release, in which it also noted th

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