Reinsurance News

Geopolitical alignment essential in new era of tariff deals: Willis

Geopolitical alignment has now become essential for internationally exposed firms’ risk management strategies amid a new trade paradigm, Willis, a WTW business, argues in its latest Political Risk Index. The global trade landscape has been fundame...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

IQUW Bermuda appoints Tristram Prior to lead latest product expansion

Specialty insurer and reinsurer IQUW Bermuda has announced the appointment of Tristram Prior as Head of Professional Lines & Cyber Insurance, where he will lead the launch of its Directors’ & Officers’ (D&O), Financial Institutions (FI...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

Aon provides enhanced access to Latin America catastrophe models via Oasis LMF

Aon plc, a professional services firm, has announced that its Impact Forecasting team is now providing ERN’s Latin America catastrophe models to clients through the Oasis Loss Modelling Framework (Oasis LMF). Latin America is emerging as a key reg...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

Younes to lead Tysers Marine team in Dubai as Divisional Director

Tysers, an independent Lloyd’s insurance broker, part of the Australian AUB Group, has announced the appointment of Younes Younes as a Divisional Director within its Marine team in Dubai. In his new role, Younes will help to drive the development...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

Younes to lead Tysers Non-Marine team in Dubai as Divisional Director

Tysers, an independent Lloyd’s insurance broker, part of the Australian AUB Group, has announced the appointment of Younes Younes as a Divisional Director within its Non-Marine team in Dubai. In his new role, Younes will help to drive the developm...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

Younes to join Tysers Non-Marine team in Dubai as Divisional Director

Tysers, an independent Lloyd’s insurance broker, part of the Australian AUB Group, has announced the appointment of Younes Younes as a Divisional Director within its Non-Marine team in Dubai. In his new role, Younes will help to drive the developm...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

Serenova Re appoints Stelian Dragan as Chief Business Development Officer

Serenova Re, a Bermuda-based reinsurance company backed by Bain Capital and part of the Federal Life Group, has announced the appointment of Stelian Dragan as Chief Business Development Officer. In his new role, Dragan will lead business developme...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

ACCC opposes IAG’s acquisition of RAC WA’s insurance arm

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced its opposition to Insurance Australia Group Limited’s (IAG) proposed acquisition of RAC Insurance Pty Limited (RACI) from the Royal Automobile Club of Western Australia Inc, c...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

Citizens proposes rate reductions for many policyholders

Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, Florida’s state-backed insurer created to provide coverage when private options are unavailable, announced Wednesday that its Board of Governors has approved proposed 2026 rates that would lower average pre...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

RGA welcomes Ryan Krueger as Senior VP, Investor Relations

Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), Incorporated, a global life and health reinsurer, has announced the appointment of Ryan Krueger as Senior Vice President, Investor Relations, effective January 5, 2026. Reporting to Executive Vice President and...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

LGRA estimates $9bn total premium for US PRT market in Q3’25

Legal & General Retirement America (LGRA), a business unit of Legal & General America, has estimated that total premium of the US Pension Risk Transfer (PRT) market for the third quarter of 2025 will be around $9 billion, a decrease compar...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

Chris Aries to serve as General Counsel, Howden US

Howden, the global insurance and reinsurance broking group, has appointed Chris Aries as General Counsel of its US retail broking and advisory business. In his new role, Aries will serve as the primary legal advisor to Howden’s US business, coveri...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

Lower reinsurance costs drive reduced insurance rates in Louisiana

Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple has approved requests from SureChoice Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange (SURE) and Elevate Reciprocal Exchange for an average 7.5% rate reduction, benefiting the companies’ more than 73,000 homeowners pol...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

The Fidelis Partnership relocates European headquarters to Dublin

The Fidelis Partnership (TFP), a privately-owned managing general underwriter (MGU), has transferred its primary European entity from Brussels to Dublin, effective 1st December 2025. TFP has established Dublin as the hub to access the European mar...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

Aviva to adopt hx’s full suite of AI-powered capabilities

hyperexponential (hx), a pricing and underwriting platform for re/insurers, has expanded its strategic partnership with Aviva to accelerate the British insurers’ AI-powered underwriting and pricing transformation. This builds on the announcement i...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

Moody’s RMS launches new North America severe convective storm models

Moody’s RMS has launched its new North America Severe Convective Storm HD Models at a time when recent industry events have highlighted the pressing need for more robust and reliable risk modelling. According to the firm, in the last three years,...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

Radian receives all regulatory approvals required for Inigo acquisition

Radian Group Inc., a US-based company primarily known for mortgage insurance, has received all regulatory approvals required for its pending acquisition of Inigo Limited, a specialty insurance group underwriting through Lloyd’s of London. The tran...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

Westfield Specialty International to launch into company market

Westfield Specialty International, a specialty insurance provider, has announced plans to expand its business from a Lloyd’s-only vehicle into the company market. Westfield Specialty intends to launch a Luxembourg subsidiary and use this platform...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

Munich Re plans to reach ‘even higher peaks’ by 2030, says CFO

In its new multi-year strategy, Ambition 2030, Christoph Jurecka, Chief Financial Officer and designated Chair of the Board of Management at Munich Re, stated that the firm aims to reach even higher peaks in every respect, thereby outpacing and ou...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

Bold Penguin partners with Adaptive for parametric insurance coverage

Bold Penguin, a digital solutions provider for commercial insurance, has partnered with Adaptive Insurance, a pioneer in AI-driven coverage. The collaboration brings Adaptive’s GridProtect parametric power outage coverage to the Bold Penguin platf...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

IUA establishes Chief Underwriting Officers Council for London company market

The International Underwriting Association (IUA), which represents London Market insurers and reinsurers, has established a new Chief Underwriting Officers Council for the London company market. The newly established group will offer leadership an...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

Zurich broadens Builders Risk coverage with new data center solution

Zurich North America, the commercial property and casualty insurer, has announced the launch of Data Center Project Guard, a new offering that both broadens and customises Zurich’s Builders Risk coverage. This product, described as a first-o...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

AXIS appoints Douglas Yates as US Healthcare Reinsurance Underwriting Lead

AXIS, a provider of specialty insurance and reinsurance solutions, has announced the appointment of Douglas Yates to its Accident & Health (A&H) team as US Healthcare Reinsurance Underwriting Lead. Yates brings almost two decades of experi...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

First Connect surpasses $500 Million in GWP

First Connect Insurance Services, a digital platform for independent agents to provide access to top carriers, has surpassed $500 million in gross written premium (GWP) in 2025. This significant milestone comes one year after Centana Growth Partne...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

Continental Re relocates Group Holding Company to Botswana

Continental Reinsurance Holdings, an African reinsurance group with a presence across more than 50 countries, has officially moved its Group Holding Company from Mauritius to the Republic of Botswana. The move comes after fulfilling all regulatory...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025