Reinsurance News
Pikine, Senegal’s second-largest city with more than 750,000 inhabitants, has signed a parametric insurance contract against excessive rainfall, structured by AXA Climate, and insured by a consortium of Senegalese insurers, AXA Sénégal, ASKIA Assu...
Posted: Jan 29, 2026
Bermuda-based insurer and reinsurer, AXIS Capital Holdings Limited, produced an improved combined ratio of 90.4% and 89.8% for the fourth quarter and full year 2025, respectively, supported by lower catastrophe losses and higher net favourable pri...
Posted: Jan 29, 2026
Howden, a global insurance and reinsurance broking group, has appointed José Ignacio Lathrop as Executive Chair, Howden, Latin America (LatAm). In his new role, Lathrop will use his deep market expertise to guide and support Howden’s business in L...
Posted: Jan 29, 2026
Arch Insurance International, part of Arch Capital Group and a provider of specialty insurance solutions across multiple lines, has launched its event cancellation cyber coverage. This new coverage is offered as a cyber extension to an event cance...
Posted: Jan 29, 2026
Athene Holding Ltd., a life and retirement reinsurance company majority owned by investor and private equity specialist Apollo Global Management Inc., has appointed Scott Campion as Head of New Markets. In his new role, Campion will focus on expan...
Posted: Jan 29, 2026
Allspring Global Investments, a global asset management company, has announced the appointment of Andrew Epsom as head of Insurance – International, a London-based role. In this newly created position, Epsom will lead Allspring’s internation...
Posted: Jan 29, 2026
Pension Insurance Corporation plc (PIC), a specialist insurer of defined benefit pension schemes, has completed a £6.6 million buy-in for the Primula Limited Pension Scheme, securing benefits for all 74 Scheme members. Primula, known as one of the...
Posted: Jan 29, 2026
Insurance broker Willis, a WTW business, has launched a specialised, forward-looking risk management model designed to navigate the increasingly complex data centre landscape. This unveiling comes as the industry moves away from viewing data centr...
Posted: Jan 28, 2026
AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, has announced the appointment of Jason C. Billingslea as Head of Energy, E&S, based in Dallas, Texas. Billingslea, who brings a wealth of experience in E&S Energy, will lead the devel...
Posted: Jan 28, 2026
Rokstone Agriculture, part of the international speciality re/insurance MGA Rokstone, has launched a new U.S. non-admitted Commercial Agriculture and Farm & Ranch Property Program, backed by $25 million in non-admitted A-rated capacity. This n...
Posted: Jan 28, 2026
Karen Clark & Company (KCC), a provider of catastrophe risk modelling solutions, has appointed industry veteran Deanne Nixon as a Senior Vice President (SVP) in its senior leadership team, based in Jacksonville, Florida. In her new role, Nixon...
Posted: Jan 28, 2026
The January 2026 winter storm impacting a large swath of the US (labelled Fern by The Weather Channel) has set various records across winter weather perils and is expected to generate several hundreds of millions of dollars in insured losses, acco...
Posted: Jan 28, 2026
Howden, a global insurance and reinsurance broking group, has acquired Polygon Insurance Brokers Limited (PIBL) a retail insurance broker based in the Channel Islands. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals. With acquisition, Howden ex...
Posted: Jan 28, 2026
With live M&A activity in the re/insurance sector expected to rise this year, PwC anticipates opportunities in the run-off market through the carve-out of non-core portfolios, both pre- and post-transaction. In a new report, PwC forecasted tha...
Posted: Jan 28, 2026
R+V Re, a German reinsurer and part of the non-listed R+V Versicherung AG, has announced changes in its business leadership, promoting three long-standing employees to head different underwriting departments. These promotions reflect R+V Re’s comm...
Posted: Jan 28, 2026
As geopolitical and macroeconomic trends reshape an increasingly risky world, and reinsurance pricing comes off of its peak in numerous lines of business, there’s a clear need for rationality, with plenty of opportunity for underwriters to c...
Posted: Jan 28, 2026
RLI Corp., a specialty insurer serving niche property, casualty and surety markets, has announced the appointment of Justin Doss as Vice President, Personal Lines Underwriting. In his new role, Doss will be responsible for leading the underwriting...
Posted: Jan 28, 2026
Insurance and reinsurance broking group Marsh has launched a global Digital Infrastructure Contract Advisory Group, designed to help clients manage and streamline strategic service contracts throughout the lifecycle of their digital infrastructure...
Posted: Jan 28, 2026
Lockton, an independent insurance broker, has appointed John Hatton as Chief Operating Officer of its Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) branch. In his new role, Hatton will lead the execution of our specialty and wholesale strategy, driv...
Posted: Jan 28, 2026
African Risk Capacity (ARC) has launched Africa’s first sovereign parametric flood insurance policy, with the Republic of Madagascar becoming the first country on the continent to subscribe to the new coverage. ARC developed the parametric flood i...
Posted: Jan 28, 2026
Swiss reinsurer SIGNAL IDUNA Reinsurance Ltd (SI Re) has completed its January 2026 renewal, achieving results roughly in line with last year’s record €222 million in a market the company described as having ample capacity, softening rates, and co...
Posted: Jan 28, 2026
After the recent escalation from a significant event declaration to an Insurance Catastrophe, the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has confirmed that insured losses from the devastating Victorian bushfires have crossed AU$200 million across 3,...
Posted: Jan 28, 2026
California wildfire losses at the start of last year failed to drive sufficient support for reinsurance pricing at the recent January 1st, 2026, renewals, while a benign Atlantic hurricane season in 2025 also contributed to property catastrophe pr...
Posted: Jan 28, 2026
As part of its new strategy, VIG Re has strengthened its client-facing senior leadership team, appointing Marc Haushofer as Managing Director, APAC, and Joachim Mathe as Head of Special Markets. Under the VIGRe28 initiative, the firm has introduce...
Posted: Jan 28, 2026
Roosevelt Road Specialty, a specialty insurance platform and managing general underwriter within Roosevelt Road Capital Partners, serving construction, habitational real estate, sports, entertainment, and other complex risk sectors, has announced...
Posted: Jan 28, 2026