Reinsurance News

PERILS lowers industry loss estimate for Cyclone Alfred 12% to AUD 2.25bn

Zurich-domiciled catastrophe insurance data provider PERILS AG has disclosed its second industry loss estimate for Cyclone Alfred to AUD 2.25 billion, a 12% dip from its initial loss estimate of AUD 2.568 billion issued in April 2025, six weeks af...

Posted: Jun 12, 2025

Compre appoints Rachel Bardon as CUO

Compre, a Bermuda-domiciled international specialty reinsurance group, has appointed Rachel Bardon to the newly-created role of chief underwriting officer (CUO), effective 1st September 2025. Based in Bermuda, Bardon will join Compre’s executive c...

Posted: Jun 12, 2025

Howden Re adds Lockton’s John Philipsz as MD, Head of Australia & New Zealand

Howden Re, the reinsurance and strategic advisory division of global broking group Howden, has appointed John Philipsz as Managing Director (MD), Head of Howden Re Australia and New Zealand, effective July 1st, 2025, reporting to Andy Souter, Head...

Posted: Jun 12, 2025

Lockton Re appoints Daryl Polenz as Senior Broker

Lockton Re, the reinsurance arm of independent insurance broker Lockton, has appointed Daryl Polenz as a Senior Broker, based in Kansas City. Polenz has over three decades of extensive experience in the property & casualty (P&C) reinsuranc...

Posted: Jun 12, 2025

Ryan Specialty Renewables launches to expand global energy insurance capabilities

Ryan Specialty Underwriting Managers, the specialty underwriting arm of Ryan Specialty, has announced the launch of Ryan Specialty Renewables, a new international business unit that brings together several renewable energy managing general underwr...

Posted: Jun 12, 2025

Impact of Section 899 of US Tax Bill to be ‘relatively manageable’ for re/insurers: Berenberg

The main risk of Section 899 of the US Tax Bill for European insurers and reinsurers relates to a tax on dividends from their US subsidiaries, however, the impact on earnings is expected to be relatively manageable, according to Berenberg. Section...

Posted: Jun 11, 2025

Hayden Smith promoted to Regional CEO of United Risk

United Risk, a global property and casualty insurance underwriting and distribution platform, has promoted Hayden Smith to Regional CEO. In this role, Smith will oversee the company’s EU, UK, and British Commonwealth business, managing further exp...

Posted: Jun 11, 2025

Fidelis mulls appeal after High Court sides with lessors in Russian aviation case

Following a recent ruling by the English High Court in favour of aircraft lessors for the 2021 and 2022 underwriting years, a key development in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine aviation litigation, Fidelis Insurance Group has announced it is “reviewing...

Posted: Jun 11, 2025

Amynta Risk Solutions appoints Alan Wiederhold as President of A&H

Amynta Risk Solutions has announced the appointment of Alan Wiederhold as President of Accident & Health (A&H). In this role, Wiederhold will be responsible for expanding Amynta Risk Solutions’ product offerings and strengthening its value...

Posted: Jun 11, 2025

Verisk strengthens PCS leadership with strategic appointment and new structure

Verisk, a data analytics and technology provider to the insurance and energy industries, has announced a refreshed leadership structure for its Property Claims Services (PCS) unit. This initiative is aimed at strengthening PCS’s support for the re...

Posted: Jun 11, 2025

SCOR unveils NatReCo Initiative to drive nature-positive re/insurance solutions

SCOR has launched the NatReCo Initiative to offer clients re/insurance solutions supporting nature-positive projects that address societal challenges such as climate change, health and wellbeing, food and water security, sustainable agriculture, a...

Posted: Jun 11, 2025

Mercury appoints Bennett to lead new climate science team

Mercury Insurance, a provider of property and casualty insurance, has appointed Steve Bennett as its Senior Director of Climate and Catastrophe Science, where he will build and lead a team dedicated to helping identify ways Mercury and its policyh...

Posted: Jun 11, 2025

European demand for aggregate covers resurges as insurers seek frequency protection: Gallagher Re’s...

European cedants are showing renewed interest in aggregate catastrophe reinsurance coverage, as elevated retentions and heightened sensitivity to the potential impact of an increased frequency of events put pressure on underwriting earnings, accor...

Posted: Jun 11, 2025

European MGA market growth is outpacing US and global benchmarks: Howden Re

In a new report, Howden Re reveals that the European Managing General Agent (MGA) ecosystem is growing at a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of approximately 23%, outpacing both US and global benchmarks. There are over 650 MGAs across...

Posted: Jun 11, 2025

Ategrity Specialty Insurance IPO to raise $113.3m

Ategrity Specialty Insurance Company Holdings, formerly known as Ategrity Specialty Holdings LLC, launched its initial public offering (IPO) of 6,666,667 shares earlier this month and has confirmed the pricing for the same at $17 per share. It is...

Posted: Jun 11, 2025

Wajahat Khawaja appointed Head of Governance and Controls at MNK Group

Wajahat Khawaja has taken on the role of Head of Governance and Controls at MNK Group, an independent organisation operating across various sectors of the insurance industry. Bringing over three decades of experience, including extensive work inte...

Posted: Jun 11, 2025

Samsung Fire & Marine ups stake in Canopius with new $570m investment

Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance (SFMI) has lifted its stake in specialty and P&C re/insurer Canopius following the signing of an additional equity investment contract worth $570 million. This additional 21% stake has been purchased from ex...

Posted: Jun 11, 2025

Untapped potential of AI in the insurance sector: Genpact

Despite 69% of insurance companies having adopted AI, only 36% of US customers report improved digital experiences, highlighting the industry’s ongoing challenge to effectively scale AI to enhance customer experience and drive growth, according to...

Posted: Jun 11, 2025

US commercial insurance rates up 5.3% in Q1’25: WTW

The latest findings of WTW’s Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey (CLIPS), reveals that US commercial insurance rates have continued a downward trajectory compared with the prior two quarters, despite an increase of 5.3% in the first quarter...

Posted: Jun 11, 2025

Xceedance’s MIS invests in DigsFact to advance AI-powered property inspections

Millennium Information Services (MIS), a provider of property inspection solutions for the insurance industry, has made a strategic investment in DigsFact, an artificial intelligence (AI) company specialising in real-time virtual inspections and a...

Posted: Jun 11, 2025

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions appoints Adrian Hall as CEO of United States

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, the commercial insurance arm of reinsurance giant Swiss Re, has appointed Adrian Hall as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the United States branch. The firm explained that his leadership marks “a pivotal ste...

Posted: Jun 11, 2025

Pool Re selects Clearwater Analytics to modernise investment operations

Great Britain’s government-backed terrorism reinsurer, Pool Re, has chosen Clearwater Analytics, a provider of SaaS-based investment management, accounting, reporting, and analytics solutions, to modernise its investment operations, accounting, an...

Posted: Jun 11, 2025

Reinsurers may re-evaluate Canadian exposure amid rising wildfire losses: Morningstar DBRS

With Canada’s 2025 wildfire season poised to become one of the most destructive on record following a historically damaging 2024, reinsurers are likely to re-evaluate their Canadian exposure, according to a recent report by Morningstar DBRS. As of...

Posted: Jun 10, 2025

Arundo Re appoints Raphaël Marin as Non-Life Underwriter & Actuary for LatAm

Arundo Re, the French reinsurance company, has named Raphaël Marin as Non-Life Underwriter and Actuary for the Latin America (LatAm) market. With over thirteen years of experience in the insurance and reinsurance sectors, he has built a strong pro...

Posted: Jun 10, 2025

Premia’s Alan Gray selected to serve as manager for ECRA and CMC pools

Alan Gray LLC, in conjunction with its wholly owned subsidiary A.G. Risk Management, Inc., has been appointed under a Pool Manager Agreement to serve as the successor pool manager for the Excess and Casualty Reinsurance Association (ECRA) and Carp...

Posted: Jun 10, 2025