Reinsurance News
The US property & casualty (P&C) insurance industry is forecast to have its lowest net combined ratio (NCR) in over a decade for the full year 2025, despite the devastating California wildfires in Q1’25, supported by an Atlantic hurricane...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Hamilton Insurance Group, Ltd., an international specialty insurance and reinsurance group, has announced the appointment of Michelle Li as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Hamilton Global Specialty, its underwriting platform headquartered in Lond...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Skyward Group has expanded Skyward Specialty’s Life Sciences insurance solution by leveraging Apollo’s Lloyd’s Syndicate 1969, to offer enhanced multinational placements for US-domiciled life sciences companies with international operations. Skywa...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Argenta, a Lloyd’s insurer, has appointed Alexandra Hayes as Head of Group Strategy & Execution/Chief of Staff and Sweta Tzimopoulos as Chief Distribution Officer. The two appointments aim to strengthen the insurer’s leadership team and reflec...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
AXA XL, the property and casualty division of global insurer AXA Group, has announced the appointment of Samantha Hazlewood as Head of AXA Group Partnerships and Strategic Client Management for AXA XL, effective 1st February 2026. In her new role,...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
With the re/insurance market facing compounding pressures in 2026, Capgemini’s Luca Russignan has suggested the gap is widening between those who execute and those who merely experiment, as AI’s double-edged nature rewards true trailblazers who ar...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Trawick International Limited, a member of Trawick Holdings, a privately owned specialty insurance group offering travel and niche insurance products worldwide, has confirmed the launch of a Lloyd’s registered brokerage within the group. The broke...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Water risk intelligence firm Fathom has launched FathomDEM+, a global terrain dataset designed to provide a single, uniform, and independently benchmarked view of terrain worldwide, enhancing risk analysis. The programme aims to underpin the next...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Rachel Turk, Chief of Market Performance at Lloyd’s of London, classifies the current reinsurance market as one that is softening, but not soft, noting that it is on a knife edge and could reverse following a major loss event. Speaking at Fitch Ra...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
RLI Insurance Company reduced its catastrophe reinsurance limit by $150 million for 2026 at the January renewals, citing lower exposure and continued soft conditions, which it described as a “buyer’s market” for property. Jen Klobnak, Chief Operat...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Edward Sheppard is set to lead the CP&I portfolio and accelerate the global Specialty growth strategy of AI12, a global specialist insurance and reinsurance brokerage, as Chief Broking Officer. The appointment follows AI12’s authorisation by t...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Price Forbes Re, an independent reinsurance broker, has announced the appointments of Alexander Ehrlich as Senior Vice President, Life & Health reinsurance, and Younkyung Cho as Vice President, Business Development Actuary. Both Ehrlich and Ch...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
MS Transverse, a hybrid fronting carrier that works with MGAs and programme administrators across the United States, has recently announced that Tom McGrath has joined the company as Senior Vice President, Head of Program Underwriting. McGrath wil...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Renaud Guidée, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of property and casualty reinsurer AXA XL Reinsurance, has said that in the current reinsurance market environment, which he describes as a “fair and healthy balance” between supply and dema...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
According to new data from the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA), extreme weather events have resulted in almost $3.5 billion in insured losses from 264,000 claims in 2025. Of these losses, the costliest was Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred, which ac...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Fidelis Insurance Bermuda Limited (FIBL), part of Fidelis Insurance Group, has successfully placed a new catastrophe bond, providing its parent with annual aggregate, industry-loss triggered protection against losses from earthquakes affecting the...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Hannover Re, a global reinsurer operating across property and casualty, life, and health lines, has announced the appointment of Prateek Maheshwari as Chief Financial Officer of its India Branch. Maheshwari has been part of Hannover Re since 2017,...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Fitch Ratings, the credit rating agency, expects the US property and casualty (P&C) insurance market to face continued softening through 2026. According to the analysis, the US P&C insurance market is set to become more competitive in 2026...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Everest Group, Ltd., an underwriting organisation offering reinsurance and specialty insurance solutions, announced the appointment of Christopher Kujawa as Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, effective January 20, 2026. Ku...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
BMS, an independent insurance and reinsurance broker, has announced the appointment of James Pearce as a Senior Broker, Cyber, reporting to Daniel Leahy, Cyber Practice Leader. Pearce brings to his new role extensive experience in the placement of...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
The defence industry is experiencing surging demand amid an increasingly volatile geopolitical landscape, but is constrained by lagging production, economic nationalism, fiscal fragility, and supply chain risks, according to a new report from Oxfo...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Global insurer American International Group (AIG) has announced the promotion of Neil Smallcombe as President, Lexington Insurance Company, the firm’s U.S. surplus lines insurer. In his new role, Smallcombe will leverage his over two decades of in...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
The Insurance Managers Association of Cayman (IMAC), the representative body for Cayman’s captive insurance and reinsurance sector, has released an update pointing to continued expansion in the jurisdiction, following the Cayman Islands Monetary A...
Posted: Jan 22, 2026
AXA XL has launched a dedicated Alternative Risk Solutions (ARS) team, appointing Sylvain Bouteillé as its leader. In addition to leading the newly established ARS team within AXA XL’s Large Commercial business segment, Bouteillé will contin...
Posted: Jan 22, 2026
John Q. Doyle, President and CEO of Marsh, has stated that today’s geopolitical and geoeconomic uncertainties create real opportunities for the firm to leverage its broad capabilities to help businesses navigate and thrive in challenging times. Sp...
Posted: Jan 22, 2026