CNA Surety - Financial Strength Ratings

Financial Strength Ratings & T-Limits

The CNA Surety underwriting companies, Western Surety Company, Surety Bonding Company of America, and Universal Surety of America, are rated A by A.M. Best Company and A- by Standard & Poor's.

A.M. Best

Financial Strength Rating: A
Financial Size Category: XI
($750 Million to $1 Billion)

Best's Security Icon Companies rated Secure (A++, A+, A, A-, B++, B+) are awarded a Best's Security Icon. This special emblem displays their rating and category (Superior, Excellent, or Very Good), helping you discern industry leaders at a glance.

The icon represents A.M. Best's opinion of an insurer's ability to meet its obligations to policyholders - an opinion grounded in painstaking analysis of each company's reported financial performance for at least the past five years, utilizing over 100 key financial tests and supporting data.

Standard & Poor's

Financial Strength Rating: A-

Standard & Poor's Security Circle icons are awarded only to companies that voluntarily submit to Standard & Poor's most comprehensive review and subsequently achieve one of the top four ratings, known as "secure" ratings: BBB, A, AA, or AAA. CNA Surety's operating entities have been designated as Standard & Poor's Security Circle insurers.


US Treasury Limits Effective July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012
Continental Casualty Company	$795,783,000
Continental Insurance Company	$101,300,000
Western Surety Company	$81,813,000
American Casualty Co. of Reading, PA	$12,506,000
National Fire Insurance Co. of Hartford	$11,223,000

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