Reinsurance News

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

De Jesus to drive MNK Group’s global M&A as Chief Strategy and Development Officer

MNK Group, a global independent group of insurance and reinsurance companies, has announced the appointment of Matthew De Jesus as Chief Strategy and Development Officer. In his new role, De Jesus will be responsible for leading MNK’s group-level...

Posted: Feb 06, 2026

Primary insurers to absorb up to $7bn Winter Storm Fern industry loss: Fitch

Credit ratings agency, Fitch Ratings, expects Winter Storm Fern to incur insured losses of between $4 billion and $7 billion, with primary insurers poised to absorb the event as while damaging, Fitch notes that it was not large enough to reinsuran...

Posted: Feb 06, 2026

Delaney to lead K2 Insurance Services’ newly launched CPI division

K2 Insurance Services has announced the formation of K2 Collateral Protection Insurance (K2 CPI), a new division focused on risk solutions for intellectual property lending. Brian Delaney, a twenty-plus-year veteran of the hedge fund industry, wil...

Posted: Feb 06, 2026

Howden raises $703m from bond issuance to fund further growth

Howden Group, a global insurance and reinsurance intermediary, has completed the issuance of a $690 million add-on to existing $500 million 8.125% Senior Notes due 2032, in a private offering. The offering was conducted under Rule 144A and Regulat...

Posted: Feb 06, 2026

Venbrook appoints Awais Farooq as Chief Claims Officer

Venbrook Group, LLC, an independent insurance distribution and services firm in the US, has announced the appointment of Awais Farooq as Chief Claims Officer. In his new role, Farooq will oversee Venbrook’s global claims operations, focusing...

Posted: Feb 06, 2026

MGA Polaris Re expands its Construction & Engineering capabilities

POLARIS Reinsurance Solutions, a Vienna-based managing general agent (MGA), has announced the appointment of Pascal Jaut as Head of Construction & Engineering. Headquartered in Vienna, Polaris Re is a subsidiary of Polaris Corporate Solutions...

Posted: Feb 06, 2026

Insurwave appoints Deepak Saigal as Chief Delivery Officer

Insurwave, the London-based insurtech platform focused on specialty insurance, has announced the appointment of Deepak Saigal as Chief Delivery Officer. In his new role, Saigal will be responsible for strengthening delivery execution across the bu...

Posted: Feb 06, 2026

kWh Analytics boosts renewable energy coverage with renewed Aspen Specialty partnership

kWh Analytics, a provider of climate and risk management for renewable energy projects, has successfully renewed its agreement with Aspen Specialty, expanding support of its Property Insurance offering for renewable energy assets and projects. Tha...

Posted: Feb 06, 2026

US casualty pricing expected to diverge amid softening P&C landscape: Morningstar DBRS

As the US commercial property and casualty (P&C) insurance market is experiencing significant softening across most sectors, as of Q3 2025, US casualty lines remain an exception, with rates continuing to rise, Morningstar DBRS highlights in a...

Posted: Feb 05, 2026

Novee to provide Volt with AI-assisted underwriting

London-based Volt Underwriting, a Lloyd’s approved coverholder, has partnered with Novee to deploy its AI intelligence layer across its Power & Renewables portfolio. The partnership is designed to enhance underwriting efficiency by providing u...

Posted: Feb 05, 2026

Reinsurance sector on track to exceed cost of capital for third consecutive year: S&P

S&P Global Ratings expects most reinsurers to remain well within their annual natural catastrophe budgets and deliver solid results for full-year 2025, noting that the sector is on track to exceed its cost of capital for the third consecutive...

Posted: Feb 05, 2026