Reinsurance News
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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, 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 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
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
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
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
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 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 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
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, 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, 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
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
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
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