Reinsurance News

ASIC commences proceedings alleging QBE misled customers on pricing discounts

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 sees Net Asset Value increase to £252.9m in H1’24

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

Joly-Pottuz to lead HDI Global’s Alternative Risk Transfer division, HDI Enablers

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

New pension longevity model launched by Oliver Wyman and Mercer

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 agrees new deal with Aviva for its D&F property portfolio

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

Jim Hinchley named Chief Retail Officer for Markel’s Specialty division

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

Losses from Milton to possibly reach third layer of Heritage’s reinsurance tower

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

P/C credit rating downgrades decline, but so do upgrades in H1 2024: AM Best

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

BHSI appoints Kristina Målarbo as Head of Claims, Nordics

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 unveils customisable cyber insurance solution for energy and utility sectors

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

Ken Carter appointed Chief Claims Officer for Concert Group

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 raises €30M led by Blossom Capital to drive AI innovation and global growth

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

Lloyd’s Market Association adopts new Chair appointment process

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

PERILS places final industry loss estimate for Babet-Aline floods and storms at €639m

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

Cyber insurers could cut loss ratios by 16% by excluding high-risk entities: Gallagher Re

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

Industry veteran Thomas Long joins HDI Global Insurance as US Casualty Lead

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

CNA Financial estimates net cat losses of $143m in Q3’24

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 sees net income growth, cat losses increase CoR in Q3’24

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

September’s PRT costs increased from 100.8% to 101.7%: Milliman

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

US state residual property markets see policy count double in 5 years, AM Best

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

Register for Artemis’ live webinar on the use of alternative capital sources by originators of risk

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

Adam Neverton to lead Aon’s strategic broking for professional services

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 reports preliminary Q3 result of €900m despite high loss expenditure

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

Bowhead Specialty does not expect direct material losses from Q3 hurricanes

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

LSM names Mahida Head of Third Party Claims, UK & MENA

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