Reinsurance News

American Integrity Insurance appoints Jon Ritchie as President

American Integrity Insurance Group, a provider of residential property insurance in Florida, has announced the promotion of Jon Ritchie to President. Ritchie, who joined the company in 2019 as Chief Operating Officer, has reportedly been instrumen...

Posted: Dec 06, 2024

Trustees urged to look beyond price when selecting insurers: Hymans Robertson

A new paper from Hymans Robertson, a leading pensions and financial services consultancy, advises trustees of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes to look beyond price when selecting an insurer for buy-in or buy-out transactions. While cost remain...

Posted: Dec 06, 2024

Andy Bills to serve as Chief Revenue Officer of Risk Solved

Global risk engineering and risk data solution provider, Risk Solved, has appointed Andy Bills to the newly created role of Chief Revenue Officer, designed to build on its existing sales and revenue generation activity. Bills is a market veteran a...

Posted: Dec 06, 2024

J.P. Morgan forecasts positive growth outlook for life insurance sector

Despite life insurance facing a challenging decade, analysts at J.P. Morgan expect a better growth outlook for the sector moving forward. In its recent report, the firm noted that most advanced life markets, including developed markets in Asia lik...

Posted: Dec 06, 2024

European insurers set for acquisitions in 2025 amid market shifts: Bloomberg Intelligence

A recent report from Bloomberg Intelligence (BI), the research division of Bloomberg, European general insurers’ debt-to-equity ratios indicate that they have the financial capacity to pursue acquisitions in 2025. These acquisitions are expe...

Posted: Dec 06, 2024

Ping and ACORD Solutions Group launch property data solution

ACORD Solutions Group, an extension of ACORD, the standards-setting body for the global insurance industry, has partnered with insurance technology provider Ping to create a Property statement of values (SOVs) extraction and global exposure techno...

Posted: Dec 06, 2024

HDI Global names Hannah Brooke Head of Marine Cargo Underwriting for UK and Ireland

Commercial and specialty lines insurer HDI Global has announced the appointment of Hannah Brooke as Head of Marine Cargo Underwriting for the UK and Ireland, effective from January 1, 2025. Reporting to Antonia Osborne, Director of Underwriting-Co...

Posted: Dec 06, 2024

PERILS revises insured loss estimate for southern Germany floods to €1.58bn

Zurich-based catastrophe insurance data provider PERILS has revised its industry loss estimate for the third time, confirming the total cost of the floods in southern Germany, which occurred between May 31st and June 6th, 2024, at €1,582 million....

Posted: Dec 06, 2024

Sola raises $3.7m in seed round to provide affordable natural disaster insurance

Insurtech company Sola has closed its seed round, bringing total funding to $3.7 million, furthering its mission of providing affordable, reliable natural disaster insurance to homeowners and businesses. Sola aims to tackle the challenges of a vol...

Posted: Dec 06, 2024

James Irvine joins Oak Re as chief underwriting officer

Global reinsurance firm Oak Re has announced the appointment of James Irvine as chief underwriting officer (CUO), property, a London-based role. The executive will be joining the company in spring 2025, and report directly to Cathal Carr, chief ex...

Posted: Dec 06, 2024

Concert promotes Scott Stosek to Director of Finance & CFO of Harmony Re

Concert Group Holdings (Concert), a privately owned insurance holding company, has promoted Scott Stosek to the newly-created positions of Director of Finance, Concert Group, and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Harmony Re, the firm’s risk retenti...

Posted: Dec 06, 2024

KRM Reinsurance Brokers Philippines names Atty. Isagani Acosta, Jr. President & CEO

In response to the Philippines’ rapid economic growth and rising demand for innovative insurance solutions, particularly in infrastructure investments and natural disaster risk mitigation, KRM has announced it is bolstering its leadership te...

Posted: Dec 06, 2024

UK business leaders struggle to recognise cyber risk as a financial threat: Resilience

IT and financial leaders at the UK’s largest firms have a poor understanding of cyber risk as a financial risk, despite 74% of mid-to-large UK businesses experiencing cybercrime, according to a new survey by cyber risk solutions provider Resilienc...

Posted: Dec 06, 2024

Aviva and Direct Line reach preliminary agreement on takeover deal

Aviva and Direct Line have announced that they have reached a preliminary agreement on the financial terms of a potential acquisition of Direct Line’s entire share capital by Aviva. This newly agreed deal represents a total consideration val...

Posted: Dec 06, 2024

LK Re Singapore named UK Lloyd’s broker

LK Re, a specialist in reinsurance brokerage and Singapore subsidiary of LK Insurance Brokerage, has been selected as a registered broker by Lloyd’s in the UK. This move marks the first time that an overseas subsidiary established by a Korean insu...

Posted: Dec 06, 2024

Ventis appoints Fiona Young as Senior Underwriter

Ventis, a Managing General Agent (MGA) specialising in Commercial and Residential insurance, has announced the appointment of Fiona Young as Senior Underwriter. In her new role, Young will manage a panel of partner brokers, leveraging her technica...

Posted: Dec 06, 2024

Outlook remains stable for US life/annuity insurance, says AM Best

Global credit ratings agency AM Best has maintained its stable outlook for the US life/annuity insurance segment, citing strong capitalisation across the industry, as well as robust top-line growth in core lines of business and consistent profitab...

Posted: Dec 06, 2024

Ryan Financial Lines appoints new President and COO

Ryan Specialty, an international specialty insurance firm, has announced two key leadership appointments for its international financial lines managing general underwriter, Ryan Financial Lines (RFL), effective January 1, 2025. Richard Winborn has...

Posted: Dec 06, 2024

Vitesse continues US expansion with Vitesse Trust launch in New York

Vitesse, a global treasury and payment provider for the insurance industry, has officially launched its United States operations with the establishment of New York-based Vitesse Trust Company, LLC. The New York State Department of Financial Servic...

Posted: Dec 06, 2024

2024 tropical cyclone losses among costliest of the past decade: Munich Re

A new white paper from reinsurance company Munich Re reveals that the 2024 tropical cyclone season, characterised by unusually severe storms, ranks among the costliest of the past decade, with losses significantly surpassing the ten-year average....

Posted: Dec 05, 2024

Antares announces Commercial Division leadership team

Antares Global Management Limited has announced its leadership structure for the newly created Commercial Division, consisting of Syndicate 1274 and Bermuda-based Antares Re, through new appointments. The division is headed by Mark Graham, CEO of...

Posted: Dec 05, 2024

IAIS adopts global capital standard for insurance supervision

The International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) has adopted the global Insurance Capital Standard (ICS), aiming to promote a resilient insurance sector. IAIS members have also reportedly endorsed substantial updates to the IAIS Insur...

Posted: Dec 05, 2024

Prudential Financial names Andrew Sullivan as next CEO

The Board of Directors of Prudential Financial, the US insurance and investment firm, have appointed Andrew Sullivan as the company’s next Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective March 31st, 2025, succeeding Charles F. Lowrey Sullivan is cu...

Posted: Dec 05, 2024

AXA joins the Stanford HAI Corporate Affiliate Program

Global insurance group AXA has become a new member of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) Corporate Affiliate Program. Through collaboration with Stanford faculty, the program aims to promote responsible artificial intelligence deve...

Posted: Dec 05, 2024

Oceanview Secure Re appoints Brian Nocco to Board

Oceanview Secure Reinsurance Ltd., a subsidiary of Oceanview Holdings Ltd., a provider of annuities and reinsurance solutions, has appointed Brian W. Nocco to its Board of Directors after receiving approval from the Cayman Islands Monetary Authori...

Posted: Dec 05, 2024