Reinsurance News
SiriusPoint, a specialty insurer and reinsurer, has appointed John Sakakeeny as Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO) of North America P&C Insurance, effective February 2nd, 2026. In his new role, Sakakeeny will provide strategic leadership to the...
Posted: Jan 29, 2026
Following years of consistent and significant growth, competitive market pressures have resulted in smaller year over year increases in premium growth in the surplus lines market, according to a recent report by AM Best. In the third quarter of 20...
Posted: Jan 29, 2026
Lockton Re’s proprietary analytics platform, SAGE, has been awarded another US Patent for systems and methods for custom and real-time visualisation, comparison, and analysis of insurance and reinsurance structures, with additional patents pending...
Posted: Jan 29, 2026
Guy Carpenter, the reinsurance broking arm of Marsh, generated revenue of $215 million for the fourth quarter of 2025 and revenue of $2.5 billion for the full year 2025, an increase of 7% (5% on an underlying basis) and 6% (5% on an underlying bas...
Posted: Jan 29, 2026
Brit Group has renewed its cyber consortium, Brit Cyber Attack Plus (BCAP), led by Brit Syndicate 2987, which provides clients with comprehensive cyber coverage, including cyber-triggered physical damage and business interruption, under a single u...
Posted: Jan 29, 2026
A new report from Willis, a WTW business, with contributions from Willis Re, has revealed that natural catastrophes generated more than $100 billion in insured losses in 2025, marking the sixth consecutive year above that threshold and underscorin...
Posted: Jan 29, 2026
Dale Underwriting Partners, the trading name for Dale Managing Agency Limited’s Lloyd’s Syndicate 1729, has announced the appointment of Kevin Flack to the newly created role of Head of Portfolio Solutions. In this role, Flack will be based in Lon...
Posted: Jan 29, 2026
EigenRisk, Inc., an independent insurance technology firm providing catastrophe risk management solutions, has entered into an agreement with EuroTempest to add its European windstorm forecasts and event footprints to the EigenPrism® catastrophe r...
Posted: Jan 29, 2026
QBE Re, the reinsurance arm of global insurance group QBE, has announced the appointment of Lian Phua as Head of Credit Reinsurance. Based in New York, Phua will report to Salvatore Sama, Executive Director for North America at QBE Re, and work cl...
Posted: Jan 29, 2026
After commencing underwriting political risk in the Middle East in 2025, MS Amlin, the Lloyd’s specialty insurer and reinsurer, is targeting more growth in the region via a new reinsurance partnership with its parent company, Mitsui Sumitomo...
Posted: Jan 29, 2026
Pikine, Senegal’s second-largest city with more than 750,000 inhabitants, has signed a parametric insurance contract against excessive rainfall, structured by AXA Climate, and insured by a consortium of Senegalese insurers, AXA Sénégal, ASKIA Assu...
Posted: Jan 29, 2026
Bermuda-based insurer and reinsurer, AXIS Capital Holdings Limited, produced an improved combined ratio of 90.4% and 89.8% for the fourth quarter and full year 2025, respectively, supported by lower catastrophe losses and higher net favourable pri...
Posted: Jan 29, 2026
Howden, a global insurance and reinsurance broking group, has appointed José Ignacio Lathrop as Executive Chair, Howden, Latin America (LatAm). In his new role, Lathrop will use his deep market expertise to guide and support Howden’s business in L...
Posted: Jan 29, 2026
Arch Insurance International, part of Arch Capital Group and a provider of specialty insurance solutions across multiple lines, has launched its event cancellation cyber coverage. This new coverage is offered as a cyber extension to an event cance...
Posted: Jan 29, 2026
Athene Holding Ltd., a life and retirement reinsurance company majority owned by investor and private equity specialist Apollo Global Management Inc., has appointed Scott Campion as Head of New Markets. In his new role, Campion will focus on expan...
Posted: Jan 29, 2026
Allspring Global Investments, a global asset management company, has announced the appointment of Andrew Epsom as head of Insurance – International, a London-based role. In this newly created position, Epsom will lead Allspring’s internation...
Posted: Jan 29, 2026
Pension Insurance Corporation plc (PIC), a specialist insurer of defined benefit pension schemes, has completed a £6.6 million buy-in for the Primula Limited Pension Scheme, securing benefits for all 74 Scheme members. Primula, known as one of the...
Posted: Jan 29, 2026
Insurance broker Willis, a WTW business, has launched a specialised, forward-looking risk management model designed to navigate the increasingly complex data centre landscape. This unveiling comes as the industry moves away from viewing data centr...
Posted: Jan 28, 2026
AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, has announced the appointment of Jason C. Billingslea as Head of Energy, E&S, based in Dallas, Texas. Billingslea, who brings a wealth of experience in E&S Energy, will lead the devel...
Posted: Jan 28, 2026
Rokstone Agriculture, part of the international speciality re/insurance MGA Rokstone, has launched a new U.S. non-admitted Commercial Agriculture and Farm & Ranch Property Program, backed by $25 million in non-admitted A-rated capacity. This n...
Posted: Jan 28, 2026
Karen Clark & Company (KCC), a provider of catastrophe risk modelling solutions, has appointed industry veteran Deanne Nixon as a Senior Vice President (SVP) in its senior leadership team, based in Jacksonville, Florida. In her new role, Nixon...
Posted: Jan 28, 2026
The January 2026 winter storm impacting a large swath of the US (labelled Fern by The Weather Channel) has set various records across winter weather perils and is expected to generate several hundreds of millions of dollars in insured losses, acco...
Posted: Jan 28, 2026
Howden, a global insurance and reinsurance broking group, has acquired Polygon Insurance Brokers Limited (PIBL) a retail insurance broker based in the Channel Islands. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals. With acquisition, Howden ex...
Posted: Jan 28, 2026
With live M&A activity in the re/insurance sector expected to rise this year, PwC anticipates opportunities in the run-off market through the carve-out of non-core portfolios, both pre- and post-transaction. In a new report, PwC forecasted tha...
Posted: Jan 28, 2026
R+V Re, a German reinsurer and part of the non-listed R+V Versicherung AG, has announced changes in its business leadership, promoting three long-standing employees to head different underwriting departments. These promotions reflect R+V Re’s comm...
Posted: Jan 28, 2026