Reinsurance News

Canopius launches consolidated Natural Resources team

International specialty P&C re/insurer Canopius, has announced a strategic restructuring of its underwriting capabilities with the formation of a consolidated Natural Resources team. This move is a response to a rapidly shifting market landsca...

Posted: Feb 09, 2026

MNK International launches new Brazil brokerage led by Sergio Clark

MNK International, a leading independent Lloyd’s of London broker and part of the MNK Group, has announced the launch of MNK International Brazil, a new brokerage offering re/insurance solutions, led by CEO Sergio Clark and International Director...

Posted: Feb 09, 2026

Cowbell enters Australian market with Zurich-backed SME cyber policy

Cowbell, a cyber and specialty insurance provider focused on small and medium-sized enterprises, has officially entered the Australian market and introduced Prime One, with policies written on Zurich Australian Insurance Ltd paper. The insurer has...

Posted: Feb 09, 2026

MS Amlin names Andrew Fish as Head of Exposure Management

Lloyd’s global re/insurer MS Amlin has appointed Andrew Fish as Head of Exposure Management. The move aligns with the reinsurer’s ongoing commitment to advancing expertise in the vertical. In the new role, Fish will enhance the firm’s risk m...

Posted: Feb 09, 2026

MDS strengthens Spanish operations with four senior hires

Ardonagh Group’s insurance and reinsurance brokerage, risk consultancy and benefits management firm MDS Group has expanded its operations in Spain with the appointment of four senior leaders across employee benefits, marine, and surety insurance....

Posted: Feb 09, 2026

AIG completes minority stake acquisitions in Convex and Onex

AIG, Onex Corporation and Convex have completed a sweeping deal that gives Onex a 63% controlling stake in the specialty insurer, AIG a roughly 35% minority stake and a 9.9% holding in Onex, and establishes a broader long-term strategic partnershi...

Posted: Feb 09, 2026

GIC Re reports improved CoR as underwriting loss narrows by 37.6% in 9M’25

General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC Re), the Indian public sector reinsurer, has reported a 3.58 percentage point improvement in its combined ratio (CoR) to 106.88% for the nine months ending December 31st, 2025 (9M’25), compared to 110.46...

Posted: Feb 09, 2026

Skyward Specialty launches specialised Power Generation insurance solution

Skyward Specialty Insurance Group, Inc., part of Skyward Group, has launched its new specialised Power Generation insurance solution for small to mid-sized entities. This launch further diversifies and complements the company’s existing port...

Posted: Feb 09, 2026

Cincinnati makes three senior leadership appointments

Insurer Cincinnati Financial Corporation has re-elected incumbent directors and appointed corporate officers for its US subsidiary companies, which held their regular shareholders’ and directors’ meetings this month. The following asso...

Posted: Feb 09, 2026

Kairos launches AI driven analytics platform

Singapore-based boutique insurance solutions consultancy, Kairos Risk Solutions, has introduced the Weather Data Platform, an advanced analytics tool designed to improve climate risk assessment and strengthen the use of parametric insurance soluti...

Posted: Feb 09, 2026

Liberty Specialty Markets names Edrick Tang as Senior Underwriter, APAC

Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has appointed Edrick Tang as Senior Underwriter, Asia Pacific (APAC), effective immediately. In the his role, Tang will oversee underwriting performance for the product line...

Posted: Feb 09, 2026

Data centre risks shift as market develops: Lockton

As data centres evolve from modest builds into large complex multi-billion-dollar campuses, the insurance industry has been focusing on risk engineering, an attractive proposition that also prompts competitive rating structures, reports broking gr...

Posted: Feb 06, 2026

White Mountains’ Ark/WM Outrigger Q4’25 GWP reach $268m, CoR unchanged

White Mountains has released the fourth quarter of 2025 results for its property and casualty re/insurance segment Ark/WM Outrigger, revealing gross written premiums (GWP) of $268 million, with a combined ratio of 77%. GWP in Q4 2025 increased sli...

Posted: Feb 06, 2026

Reduced cat losses drive $35.3bn US underwriting gain in 9M’25: Verisk & APCIA

Reduced extreme weather losses and continued premium growth contributed to an estimated net underwriting gain of $35.3 billion for the US insurance industry through the first nine months of 2025, according to Verisk and the American Property Casua...

Posted: Feb 06, 2026

Lockon Re, MENA appoints Gup Carpenter’s Bayan Ismaeel as Senior Client Manager

Lockton Re, MENA has announced the appointment of Bayan Ismaeel as Senior Client Manager within its Life & Health practice. Ismaeel brings eight years of industry experience, with a combination of commercial insight and actuarial expertise. Sh...

Posted: Feb 06, 2026

Premiums rise YoY in Jan ’26 across all lines except Workers’ Comp: Ivans

Ivans, a division of Applied Systems, has released the January 2026 results of the Ivans Index, showing a year over year increase in average premium renewal rates for Commercial Auto, Business Owner’s Policy (BOP), General Liability, Commercial Pr...

Posted: Feb 06, 2026

LatAm insurtech investment surges 117% in 2025: Mapfre

The Latin American (LatAm) insurtech market continued its recovery and maturation in 2025, with the number of active companies standing at 536 and investments reaching US$199 million, according to findings from Mapfre’s 11th edition of the ‘LatAm...

Posted: Feb 06, 2026

Alexander De Croo and Tsutomu Yamamoto join the IDF Steering Committee

The Insurance Development Forum (IDF) has appointed Alexander De Croo, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and Tsutomu Yamamoto, Managing Director of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), part of the Wo...

Posted: Feb 06, 2026

Addressing widening protection gaps with public-private insurance programmes: GA

With disaster risks accelerating faster than societies can adapt and protection gaps widening, well-designed public-private insurance programmes (PPIPs) aligned with national resilience strategies can strengthen risk reduction, according to a rece...

Posted: Feb 06, 2026

Compre appoints David Atkins as Deputy CEO

Bermuda-domiciled international specialty reinsurance group Compre has named David Atkins to the newly created role of Deputy CEO, based in London. According to Compre, the appointment will enhance the company’s leadership capacity to navigate gre...

Posted: Feb 06, 2026

Klapton Re secures regulatory accreditation to write reinsurance in China

Zambia-based reinsurer Klapton Reinsurance has announced that it has secured regulatory accreditation to write reinsurance business in China. This marks the company’s entry into one of the world’s most sophisticated and competitive insurance marke...

Posted: Feb 06, 2026

Kingstone recorded most profitable Q4 and full year in its history in 2025

Property and casualty insurance holding company, Kingstone Companies, Inc. has reported the strongest quarterly and annual results in the company’s history, as net income per diluted share rose by 145-158% to $0.98-$1.03 for the quarter, and...

Posted: Feb 06, 2026

Mandarin Re increases paid-up capital to $23.5m

Mandarin Re, a Malaysia-based reinsurance company, has increased its paid-up share capital to $23.5 million from $20 million, reflecting strong financial growth and reinforcing its ability to support clients and partners across Asia, Latin America...

Posted: Feb 06, 2026

Liberty names Jimmy Tong as CEO Singapore

Liberty Mutual Insurance Group’s newly unified Singapore business, Liberty, has appointed Jimmy Tong as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective 27 April 2026. Liberty previously operated in Singapore through Liberty Insurance and Liberty Specialt...

Posted: Feb 06, 2026

RGA signals confidence as 2025 net income reaches $1.18bn

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (RGA) has disclosed full year 2025 net income available to its shareholders of $1.182 billion, up from $717 million in 2024. Adjusted operating income was also up for the full year 2025, reaching $1.518 b...

Posted: Feb 06, 2026