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QBE appoints Insaf Idelhaj as Senior Manager, Cyber Services & Risk Engineering

Reinsurance News

Commercial insurer QBE has announced the appointment of Insaf Idelhaj to the newly created role of Senior Manager – Cyber Services and Risk Engineering, supporting the delivery of QBE’s cyber insurance growth strategy. Based in Paris, Idelhaj has...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Fitch Ratings turns positive on SCOR

Reinsurance News

Fitch Ratings, a credit rating agency, has revised the outlooks of French reinsurer SCOR and its core operating subsidiaries to positive from stable. This reflects Fitch’s expectation that SCOR’s earnings will improve, particularly in...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Acquinex announces senior hires to drive European expansion

Reinsurance News

Acquinex, the specialist financial lines managing general agent (MGA), has announced a number of senior appointments across Europe as part of its wider continental expansion strategy. Antonio Jesús Sánchez Martín has been appointed Head of Souther...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

AXA Partners and bolttech partner to launch embedded insurance solutions across Europe

Reinsurance News

AXA Partners, a subsidiary of AXA Group, has partnered with bolttech, a global insurtech, to launch embedded insurance and assistance solutions across the European Union, UK and Switzerland. This new long term strategic partnership brings together...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

American Integrity launches commercial residential property program

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This marks American Integrity’s first commercial lines product since going public earlier this year.

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

AmTrust International appoints Tony Scott as head of claims

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Scott joins from Geo Underwriting.

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Canopius appoints Rachel Webber as Head of Reinsurance, UK

Reinsurance News

Canopius Group, a global specialty and Property & Casualty re/insurer, has announced the appointment of Rachel Webber to the newly created role of Head of Reinsurance, UK. In this new role, Webber will be responsible for evaluating Canopius’ U...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Fairfax sells interest in Eurolife’s life insurance business for €813m

Reinsurance News

Fairfax Financial Holdings has signed a term sheet with Eurobank Ergasias Services and Holdings S.A. under which Eurobank or one of its affiliates will acquire Fairfax’s 80% stake in the life insurance business of Eurolife FFH Insurance Group Hold...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Dynamic Re names Miriam Ávila García as CUO

Reinsurance News

Dynamic Reinsurance, an underwriting agency providing facultative and treaty reinsurance, has announced the appointment of Miriam Ávila García as Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO). She brings nearly three decades of re/insurance industry experience...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

WTW introduces Radar 5, the latest generation of its insurance analytics and rating software

Reinsurance News

Willis Towers Watson (WTW), an advisory, broking, and solutions company, has released the latest version of its rating and analytics software for the insurance sector, Radar 5. This new version introduces advanced features that use Generative AI t...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

US Sanctions Online Scammers Who Stole Billions From Victims

Insurance Journal

The Trump administration sanctioned more than a hundred companies and individuals in Southeast Asia linked to online investment scams that have fleeced US victims of billions of dollars in recent years. The Treasury Department — in collaboration with...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Howden appoints Susan Panuccio as CFO, Mark Craig to become CIO

Reinsurance News

Global insurance and reinsurance broking group Howden has announced the appointment of Susan Panuccio as its new Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO), with Mark Craig set to take on the new position of Chief Investment Officer (CIO). Craig steps in...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Global cat losses ease in 2025, yet annual volatility persists: Gallagher Re

Reinsurance News

Global reinsurance broking and advisory firm Gallagher Re has suggested that, despite the “manageable nature” of catastrophe activity this year so far, the industry should continue to expect annual volatility in losses in the future. A...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

People Moves: Chamberlain to Lead Nationwide’s Small Commercial Operations; Duck Creek Gains New CEO...

Insurance Journal

Chamberlain Named Small Commercial Operations and Service Solutions Leader Nationwide has tapped Joe Chamberlain to lead its small commercial operations and service solutions organization. Chamberlain has over 30 years of underwriting and operations...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

India’s rapid infrastructure expansion a key driver of reinsurance growth: Howden India’s Singhal

Reinsurance News

In an interview with Reinsurance News, Prateek Singhal, Executive President & Head of Reinsurance, Howden India, explained that India’s “massive infrastructure push and the maturation of specialty risk markets” are primary drivers...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Miller adds David Robinson as CEO and Neil Ross as CUO of its MGA platform

Reinsurance News

Miller, the independent specialist insurance and reinsurance broker, has scaled the operations of its Managing General Agent (MGA) offering with the appointment of David Robinson as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Neil Ross as Chief Underwriting...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

INTX launches new solution designed to revolutionise ceded reinsurance management

Reinsurance News

INTX Insurance Software, a provider of fully integrated core solutions for the entire P&C insurance policy lifecycle, aims to revolutionise ceded reinsurance management with its newly launched solution, INTX ReinsureConnect. A cloud-native, AI...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

US Government Shutdown Threatens Home Sales in Flood-Prone Areas: Report

Insurance Journal

A shutdown of the U.S. government could hinder the accessibility of insurance coverage to prospective homeowners in flood-prone areas, and cost the already struggling housing market billions of dollars in delayed contract closings, data showed on Tue...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Government Shutdown Threatens US Home Sales in Flood-Prone Areas: Report

Insurance Journal

A shutdown of the U.S. government could hinder the accessibility of insurance coverage to prospective homeowners in flood-prone areas, and cost the already struggling housing market billions of dollars in delayed contract closings, data showed on Tue...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Viewpoint: Strong In-House Claims Functions Help Build Trust in MGA Sector

Insurance Journal

The managing general agent (MGA) market is in the spotlight as one of the most agile and innovative arrows of growth for the insurance sector. But as with any arrow, direction and precision matter. Fired without the right discipline, it …

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Agents Struggle to Find Capacity, Meet Customer Timing Expectations: Survey

Insurance Journal

A new property/casualty insurance industry survey report reveals some of the key challenges that independent agents are facing, including providing quotes within customers’ expected time frames—or finding insurance capacity at all in some areas...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Viewpoint: Can Parametric Insurance Bridge the FEMA Gap?

Insurance Journal

The way communities nationwide recover from natural disasters may never be the same. The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) expired on September 30. Simultaneously, pending congressional legislation stands to transform the Federal Emergency Mana...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Miss. Supreme Court Won’t Budge on $15M Bad-Faith Decision Against USAA

Insurance Journal

The Mississippi Supreme Court this month declined to reconsider its 2024 decision to uphold almost $15 million in punitive damages and attorney fees against USAA in one of the longest-running claims disputes to come out of Hurricane Katrina. The cour...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Mississippi Supreme Court Won’t Budge on $15M Bad-Faith Decision Against USAA

Insurance Journal

The Mississippi Supreme Court this month declined to reconsider its 2024 decision to uphold almost $15 million in punitive damages and attorney fees against USAA in one of the longest-running claims disputes to come out of Hurricane Katrina. The cour...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Insureds Need Early ACV Estimate to Claim Breach of Contract, Fla. Appeals Court Says

Insurance Journal

In what is being seen as a significant win for property insurers, a Florida appeals court last week found that Universal Property and Casualty Insurance Co. did not breach the insurance contract when it paid just $8,125 on a homeowner’s …

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

California Reports $6.7B Economic Impact From Diverse Businesses in Insurance Industry

Insurance Journal

A new economic impact report from the California Department of Insurance shows that insurance companies contracting with small and diverse-owned businesses contributed a total economic output of $6.7 billion to the state’s economy, supporting m...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

California Reports $6.7B Impact From Diverse Businesses in Insurance Industry

Insurance Journal

A new economic impact report from the California Department of Insurance shows that insurance companies contracting with small and diverse-owned businesses contributed a total economic output of $6.7 billion to the state’s economy, supporting m...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Allianz UK appoints Mansoor Reehana as Head of AI

Reinsurance News

Allianz UK, part of the financial services group Allianz SE, has appointed Mansoor Reehana to the newly created role of Head of Artificial Intelligence (AI), to lead the strategic growth of AI initiatives. In his new role, Reehana will drive strat...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

California Oil Workers Face Uncertain Future in State’s Energy Transition

Insurance Journal

Thirty years ago, Willie Cruz was shocked when he learned the Southern California oil refinery where he worked was shutting down. Cruz, now a 61-year-old living in Arizona, had spent five years working in the environmental department when Powerine Oi...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Building Property Resilience in an Era of Complex Risks

Risk & Insurance

Escalating catastrophes, reinsurance shifts, and valuation challenges are reshaping business resilience. Travelers’ Charlie Verfurth and Kevin Cahill share insights on key property insurance trends shaping strategies today. The post

Posted: Oct 14, 2025

Triple-I's Issues Brief Explains Benefits, Addresses Misconceptions of Risk-Based Pricing in Insuran...

Insurance Information Institute

For Immediate Release Media Contact: [email protected]   MALVERN, Pa., Oct. 15, 2025 – The Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I) has published a comprehensive Issues Brief addressing common misconceptions about risk-based pricing in property/casualt...

Posted: Oct 14, 2025

BetterLife Launches Juvenile Whole Life Product ‘Better Start’

IIR

The new offering provides simplified issue coverage and cash value growth as the insurer enters the expanding juvenile life market.

Posted: Oct 14, 2025

John Hancock, MIT AgeLab Launch Longevity Preparedness Index

IIR

The inaugural study finds U.S. adults underprepared for aging across key domains, with care planning emerging as the largest gap.

Posted: Oct 14, 2025

APCIA Annual Meeting 2025: Industry Competition, Affordability and Legal System Abuse

IA Magazine

Last week, the American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA) hosted its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida.

Posted: Oct 14, 2025

Medicare Advantage Providers Withdraw and Cut Agent Compensation

IA Magazine

In response to providers significantly reducing or eliminating agent compensation, the Big “I” voiced its concerns in joint letters to Congress and to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Posted: Oct 14, 2025

Most Americans Expect a Long-Term Care Event, Prefer Home Care

Insurance Forums

More than six in 10 (61%) U.S. adults expect to need long-term care for themselves … Read more

Posted: Oct 14, 2025

Renaissance acquires IAN

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IAN includes more than 70 member agencies representing $400 million in premium.

Posted: Oct 14, 2025