Reinsurance News
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Australia’s corporate, markets, and financial services regulator, has commenced court proceedings against QBE Insurance (Australia) Limited, alleging it misled customers about discounts...
Posted: Oct 23, 2024
B.P. Marsh & Partners, the specialist private equity investor, has reported that Net Asset Value increased by £23.7 million to £252.9 million in its half-year results for the six months to July 31, 2024, representing a notable increase from £2...
Posted: Oct 23, 2024
HDI Global, a commercial and specialty lines insurer, has reorganised the management of its HDI Enablers division appointing Eric Joly-Pottuz to manage the Paris-based Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) unit. Etienne de Varax, who managed the unit si...
Posted: Oct 23, 2024
Oliver Wyman and Mercer, businesses of Marsh McLennan, has launched a new pension risk transfer (PRT) longevity model that will enable pension plan sponsors, direct insurers and reinsurers to better price and manage longevity risk. Drawing on Merc...
Posted: Oct 23, 2024
Rokstone, an international speciality re/insurance MGA part of the Aventum Group, has announced a three year binding authority agreement with Aviva for its Direct & Facultative (D&F) property portfolio. According to Rokstone, the facility...
Posted: Oct 23, 2024
Markel, the insurance division of Markel Group Inc., has announced the appointment of Jim Hinchley as Chief Retail Officer for its Specialty division. In this role, Hinchley will lead Markel’s retail strategy, drive profitable growth in exis...
Posted: Oct 23, 2024
Heritage Insurance, a super-regional P&C insurance holding company, expects gross losses from Hurricane Milton to breach the third layer of its reinsurance tower. Milton is expected to incur Heritage approximately $57 million of net current ac...
Posted: Oct 23, 2024
There have been fewer credit rating downgrades in the first half of 2024 compared with the same prior-year period, at the same time upgrades in the US property/casualty insurance segment declined in the same period, AM Best has revealed. Fewer cre...
Posted: Oct 23, 2024
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI), a commercial property, casualty, and specialty insurer, has appointed Kristina Målarbo as the Head of Claims, Nordics, based in Stockholm. Målarbo has 25 years of industry experience overseeing commer...
Posted: Oct 23, 2024
CAC Group, a national insurance broker and advisor, has announced the launch of CyberPeril Pro, a flexible cyber insurance solution aimed at closing coverage gaps in the energy and utility sectors. Adam Lantrip, Executive Vice President, Professio...
Posted: Oct 23, 2024
Concert Group, a privately owned insurance holding company, has appointed Ken Carter to the newly created position of Chief Claims Officer. Based in Buffalo, New York, Carter joined the company on October 8, 2024 from Merchants Insurance Group. In...
Posted: Oct 23, 2024
Qantev, an AI-powered platform transforming the way health and life insurers manage claims, reduce costs, and enhance services, has secured €30 million in a new funding round led by Blossom Capital, a European venture capital firm, with participat...
Posted: Oct 23, 2024
The Board of the Lloyd’s Market Association (LMA) has announced it is adopting a new process for the appointment of a Chair, this includes a timing and procedural change. According to the announcement, following the recommendation of the LMA...
Posted: Oct 22, 2024
Zurich-domiciled catastrophe insurance data provider, PERILS, has released its final industry loss estimate of €639 million for the floods and storms caused by low-pressure systems Babet (Viktor) and Aline (Wolfgang) over the British Isles and nor...
Posted: Oct 22, 2024
A recent study by Gallagher Re, a global reinsurance broker, analysed Bitsight’s security performance data from 62,000 organisations across 67 countries, along with Gallagher Re’s proprietary data on cybersecurity incidents and claims....
Posted: Oct 22, 2024
HDI Global Insurance Company (HGIC), the US subsidiary of HDI Global SE (HDI), has appointed 35-year industry veteran Thomas Long as US Casualty Lead. In his new role, Long will be based out of the company’s US headquarters in Chicago, IL. He will...
Posted: Oct 22, 2024
Chicago-domiciled insurer, CNA Financial Corporation expects to report pretax net catastrophe losses of $143 million for Q3 2024 in its results. Approximately 75% of the catastrophe losses are associated with four larger events, including $55 mill...
Posted: Oct 22, 2024
Selective Insurance Group, Inc. has announced it financial result for the third quarter of 2024, reporting an improved net income of $90.0 million and $1,157.6 million net premiums written (NPW). According to the insurer, NPW increased 9% from a y...
Posted: Oct 22, 2024
Global consulting and actuarial firm Milliman has reported that the estimated retiree pension risk transfer (PRT) cost for September reached 101.7% of a plan’s accounting liabilities (accumulated benefit obligation, or ABO). In its latest Milliman...
Posted: Oct 22, 2024
According to AM Best, US residual property insurance markets have seen a far greater influx of personal lines business that far exceeds its commercial lines counterpart, with much of the new business written in states worst affected by the growing...
Posted: Oct 22, 2024
Artemis, our insurance-linked securities (ILS) focused sister publication, has partnered with Artex Capital Solutions, the specialist unit of Artex Risk Solutions that creates and manages ILS and related structures, to host a live webinar on the u...
Posted: Oct 22, 2024
Global insurance and reinsurance broker Aon has promoted Adam Neverton as Global Head of strategic broking for professions, effective immediately. In his new role, Neverton will be based in London, with a dual reporting line to John Brosnan, Head...
Posted: Oct 22, 2024
Munich Re has reported a preliminary Q3 2024 net result of around €900 million, despite the impact of higher-than-average major-loss expenditure from natural catastrophes in property-casualty reinsurance. Hurricane Helene was the reinsurer’s...
Posted: Oct 22, 2024
Specialty lines insurance group Bowhead Specialty does not expect material direct losses from the recent hurricanes in the third quarter of 2024, as the firm does not write any property risks, the company recently said in its preliminary third qua...
Posted: Oct 22, 2024
Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has appointed Nikunj Mahida as Head of Third Party Claims, UK & MENA with immediate effect. In his new role, Mahida will lead the London claim team for LSM’s Financial an...
Posted: Oct 22, 2024