Reinsurance News
Global insurance and reinsurance company, Everest Group, has named Tim Carter as Head of North America Reinsurance Claims, and James Parker as Head of International Reinsurance Claims. Carter has been with Everest Reinsurance Company since March 2...
Posted: Dec 19, 2025
Global reinsurance brokerage Gallagher Re has announced that Harrison Pepper will be joining its UK-Business as an Executive Director for Marine and Energy. Pepper is joining the company from rival broker Guy Carpenter, where he served as Senior V...
Posted: Dec 19, 2025
European P&C insurance run-off group Marco Capital Holdings has completed its previously announced acquisition of Dublin-based Benteler Re from Benteler Group. Incorporated in January 2003, Benteler Re is a non-life insurance Captive in run-of...
Posted: Dec 19, 2025
Marsh McLennan has named Mike Mathews as its Global Digital Infrastructure Leader, where he will leverage the firm’s combined expertise in risk, capital, and advisory solutions to serve clients in the rapidly growing sector. Mathews joined M...
Posted: Dec 19, 2025
Bermuda-based global insurer and reinsurer, Lancashire Holdings Limited, has reported that rating agency S&P Global Ratings has lifted its long-term issuer credit and financial strength ratings on the firm’s core re/insurance operating s...
Posted: Dec 19, 2025
As the global insurance industry enters 2026, the London Market is standing at a critical crossroads, with Lloyd’s of London under mounting pressure to redefine its strategic direction following significant leadership transitions – including...
Posted: Dec 19, 2025
Xavier Pazmino has been appointed as Executive Vice President, Head of Marine, for Chubb Overseas General Insurance (COG), Chubb’s international general insurance operations, effective February 2026. Pazmino, who succeeds Andrew Williamson i...
Posted: Dec 19, 2025
AM Best has upgraded Arch Capital Group and its subsidiaries’ ratings, citing the firm’s strong operating performance and a proven track record of delivering superior underwriting results and investment returns, even during softer market condition...
Posted: Dec 19, 2025
Previsico, a flood forecasting and real-time flood risk intelligence platform provider, has appointed Mark Pinkerton as Chief Technical Officer (CTO). In his new role, Pinkerton will oversee the company’s global technology strategy, product develo...
Posted: Dec 19, 2025
TD Cowen, an investment bank and financial services firm, has shared key observations on the casualty market from recent meetings in Bermuda with reinsurance participants. According to analysts, primary casualty appears to still be successfully in...
Posted: Dec 19, 2025
Farmers Insurance Exchange and its subsidiaries and affiliates, collectively known as the Farmers Insurance Group, have closed a $400 million catastrophe bond, providing indemnity-based coverage that complements their traditional catastrophe reins...
Posted: Dec 19, 2025
Global reinsurance broker Gallagher Re has announced the launch of a new dedicated Captive Risk Transfer team within its Global Facultative practice, which will be led by Martin Hughes as Executive Vice President, Captives, effective January 1, 20...
Posted: Dec 19, 2025
Amid a “very late” January 1 renewal this year, reinsurers need to remain vigilant and monitor for any terms and conditions (T&Cs) slippage, according to Jon Sullivan, Group CUO at Brit Insurance. As the market approaches the January 1 deadlin...
Posted: Dec 19, 2025
AIG, in partnership with Amwins and funds managed by Blackstone, is launching a new Lloyd’s syndicate, Syndicate 2479, featuring a novel structure that brings together a specialty distributor, an insurer and a Lloyd’s platform backed by third-part...
Posted: Dec 19, 2025
Insurance broker The Clear Group has announced the retirement of Howard Lickens, the founder of the business with Gary O’Donnell, at the end of this year. Lickens has been instrumental in shaping Clear since its formation in 2001. Over the last tw...
Posted: Dec 19, 2025
Hong Kong’s non-life insurance industry has consistently achieved profitable underwriting over the past five-year, driven by the performance in the general liability and property damage lines of business, according to a new AM Best report. Acciden...
Posted: Dec 19, 2025
Howden, a global insurance and reinsurance broking group, has announced the appointment of Eugene Lim as Head of Tax Insurance, Asia. In his new role, Lim will lead Howden’s tax advisory and insurance capabilities across the region, working with c...
Posted: Dec 19, 2025
Global reinsurance company SCOR has renewed its contingent capital program for another three years, which may provide the carrier with up to €300 million of additional capital after the occurrence of extreme events, natural catastrophes or events...
Posted: Dec 18, 2025
Cliff Falkenhagen is to succeed Wolfgang Jöbkes, who is retiring after more than 46 years with the DEVK Group, as Chief Underwriter Officer (CUO) of DEVK RE, the reinsurance subsidiary of the German insurer. Since 1987, Jöbkes has successfully hea...
Posted: Dec 18, 2025
Bill Ackman, founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, says Howard Hughes’ $2.1 billion acquisition of specialty insurer and reinsurer Vantage Group echoes Warren Buffett’s early moves at Berkshire Hathaway, as the company he backs lo...
Posted: Dec 18, 2025
The Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA), the regulatory body overseeing financial services within the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), has released a Discussion Paper outlining a series of strategic enhancements to its insurance regulato...
Posted: Dec 18, 2025
Fitch Ratings expects most Sri Lankan insurers’ losses from Cyclone Ditwah flooding to be limited due to low non-motor retention and reinsurance. However, the National Insurance Trust Fund Board (NITF), the country’s sole local reinsur...
Posted: Dec 18, 2025
Markel Insurance, the insurance operation within Markel Group Inc., has appointed James Howell as Senior War and Terrorism Underwriter, effective immediately. Howell holds nearly a decade of specialised experience in terrorism underwriting, having...
Posted: Dec 18, 2025
Global reinsurance broker Howden Re, in partnership with Howden Iberia, has been chosen to provide natural catastrophe modelling services for Spain’s national insurance pool for extraordinary risks, the Consorcio de Compensación de Seguros (...
Posted: Dec 18, 2025
Specialist re/insurance broker Miller has hired Elisabeth Chalon Lambertin and Toni Beltzer to further expand its Surety offering in Europe. Both Lambertin and Beltzer join Miller from Transitions, a surety broker specialising in surety, construct...
Posted: Dec 18, 2025