Reinsurance News
Hail has now become a leading driver of insured losses, with modern storms now able to cause financial losses comparable to a Category 4 hurricane, a recently published Cotality report has revealed. For insurers and reinsurers, this shift demands...
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
Global re/insurance broker Aon has announced a new leadership structure for its U.S. specialty distribution segment within Reinsurance Solutions, spanning E&S carriers, MGAs/MGUs, program-specific carriers, hybrid fronts, and delegated authori...
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
Verisk and the APCIA have reported that U.S. property and casualty (P&C) insurers posted some of their strongest underwriting results in years in 2025, although the performance was largely driven by unusually low catastrophe losses rather than...
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
Marsh Risk, a business of global re/insurance broker Marsh, has secured comprehensive insurance coverage for TerraPower’s Kemmerer Unit 1. This marks a significant move as the unit is the first commercial-scale, advanced nuclear power plant in the...
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
With cyber insurance growing ever more relevant and cyber risks intensifying amid powerful geopolitical, technological and economic pressures, Munich Re has urged companies to place equal emphasis on resilience and protection, highlighting the nee...
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
Rising Edge Ltd, an insurance underwriting specialist, has announced the appointment of Doug Robare as Chief Underwriting Officer. In his new role, Robare will lead the development of new underwriting propositions across the portfolio, focusing on...
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
Insurers are seeking to get closer to their distribution partners and become easier to do business with, enabling them to attract more submissions, respond faster, and gain better insight into the risks they are selecting, a shift that Applied Sys...
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
AXA XL, the property, casualty, and specialty risk division of AXA, has announced the appointment of Michael Reynolds as Head of Marine, UK & Lloyd’s and Global Chief Underwriting Officer for Hull. Reynolds will be based in London, and will st...
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
Fuse, an AI-powered commercial insurance intelligence platform, has launched a new Agriculture vertical, designed to cover the complete Ag & Rural insurance landscape, giving brokers and carriers continuous, actionable intelligence across ever...
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
Arrow Global Group (Arrow), a pan-European investment manager specialising in private credit and real estate, has launched Arrow Global Insurance (AGI), a strategic extension of its existing investment platform to capture institutional investment...
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
Canopius Group, a global specialty and property & casualty re/insurer, has appointed Dan Bridges as Head of Claims, Bermuda and Global Head of Reinsurance Claims, and Patrick Cannon as Global Head of Cyber Claims. The two senior appointments a...
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
Specialist Lloyd’s broker New Dawn Risk has partnered with Continent 8 Technologies, a provider of managed IT solutions for the iGaming and online sports betting industry. This collaboration merges Continent 8’s cyber security expertise with New D...
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
A new AM Best report suggests that proposed changes to how the Hong Kong Insurance Authority (HKIA) assesses non-life insurers’ capital requirements, particularly for natural catastrophes, man-made risks, and offshore reinsurance business, could s...
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
Convex Group Limited, the international specialty insurer and reinsurer, has announced that Stephen Catlin will step down from his role as Chairman of the Board, but will remain a director. Catlin has been given the honorary title of Founder and L...
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has appointed Kevin Demmon to the newly created role of Property Divisional Director, effective March 19th, 2026. In the new role, Demmon is based in London and reports to He...
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
Legal & General (L&G) has announced the appointment of Sarah Spooner to the newly created role of Chief Customer Officer (CCO) across its Retail and Institutional Retirement businesses. The role brings together responsibility for customer...
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
Lloyd’s global re/insurer MS Amlin has signed a new binder agreement with French MGA WeSpecialty to provide contract frustration and credit risk cover for the French export sector. According to MS Amlin, the partnership will further enhance its di...
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
DUAL UK, the underwriting arm of Howden Group Holdings, has launched a new Credit Risk Insurance (CRI) solution aimed at helping clients manage the challenges associated with cross-border trade and investment. As a specialist managing general agen...
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI), part of the Berkshire Hathaway group, has announced the launch of two new Executive First Directors & Officers (D&O) liability insurance policies in Switzerland. The new policies are designed...
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
Readhunt, an independent insurance broker providing UK businesses with sector-specific expertise and tailored cover, has received Lloyd’s of London Broker registration. The accreditation broadens the firm’s ability to offer customised insurance so...
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
Global insurance and reinsurance broking group Aon has announced the appointment of Julio Adolfo Cedillo Mejía as CEO, Commercial Risk and Human Capital for Mexico, Caribbean and Central America. The transition to the new role is set to take effec...
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
Newly launched Niyam Group has announced that it has received approval from Lloyd’s of London for Syndicate 2047 and granted permission to underwrite, alongside the appointment of Devesh Srivastava as Chairman of the Group. Established at the begi...
Posted: Mar 25, 2026
The US property and casualty (P&C) industry recorded a $60.9 billion net underwriting gain in 2025, a significant increase from the $22.1 billion gain generated in the previous year, reports AM Best. According to the global rating agency’...
Posted: Mar 24, 2026
Shepherd, an insurance technology platform for commercial industries, has successfully closed a $42 million Series B funding round, led by Intact Private Capital, with participation from Spark Capital, Costanoa Ventures, and additional investors....
Posted: Mar 24, 2026
A new report from Howden has articulated a framework for introducing structured secondary trading for reinsurance, noting that such a development would allow carriers to more efficiently allocate risk and, in turn, improve overall capital utilisat...
Posted: Mar 24, 2026