Reinsurance News
US life and annuity (L&A) insurers are increasingly turning to reinsurance as a strategic capital and risk management tool, with leverage ratios climbing steadily over the past decade, according to a new report from AM Best. In a new report, t...
Posted: Aug 28, 2025
Global reinsurance broker Gallagher Re has announced the appointment of Xander Georgetti as Executive Director within its Specialty Lines UK team. In his new role, Georgetti will be responsible for the production and placement of Credit, Surety, a...
Posted: Aug 28, 2025
The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. has expanded its Business Owner’s Advantage product to meet the evolving needs of the life sciences industry. The expanded suite is designed for early-stage and smaller businesses, offering customised covera...
Posted: Aug 28, 2025
Bermuda-based reinsurer Conduit Re has strengthened its underwriting team with the promotion of Angus Hampton to Head of Casualty, the expansion of Peter Kiernan’s role to include broker and client management, and the strategic hire of David Frawl...
Posted: Aug 28, 2025
Zurich-domiciled catastrophe insurance data provider PERILS has launched Wind-Jeannie Japan, a new platform providing real-time industry loss forecasts for typhoons in the country. The product provides industry loss forecasts for typhoon events fo...
Posted: Aug 28, 2025
African Risk Capacity Limited (ARC), a specialised agency of the African Union, has issued an insurance payout of $2,767,958 to the Government of the Kingdom of Lesotho, after its sovereign drought insurance policy for the 2024/25 agricultural sea...
Posted: Aug 28, 2025
Australian insurance broker AUB Group has released its 2025 financial year results, reporting that its international business unit, which includes Tysers, reported a pre-tax profit of AUD 104.1 million, a 7.6% increase from the same period last ye...
Posted: Aug 28, 2025
Fosun International Limited has released the unaudited results for Hong Kong-based global reinsurer Peak Re for the first half of 2025, reporting gross written premiums (GWP) of $1.06 billion, a 25.1% increase compared to the same period a year ea...
Posted: Aug 27, 2025
Chariot Re, a newly established Bermuda-based life and annuity reinsurance company, has appointed Reena Pally as Chief Investment Officer, effective 1st September 2025. Chariot Re launched in 2025 with co-sponsorship from MetLife and General Atlan...
Posted: Aug 27, 2025
Fitch Ratings has reported that the 19 non-life reinsurers it tracks saw a decline in underwriting profits in H1 2025, and noted that premium growth in 2026 may be constrained by heightened competition and ongoing global economic uncertainties. Al...
Posted: Aug 27, 2025
Westfield, a US-based property and casualty insurer, has announced the appointment of Henning Haagen as Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO), effective 2nd September 2025. Based in Westfield’s New York City office, Haagen will oversee the develo...
Posted: Aug 27, 2025
Bermuda’s reinsurance sector maintained its global prominence in 2024, with several of its leading players climbing the premium rankings for non-IFRS 17 reporters, according to data from global rating agency AM Best. Our directory of the top 50 gl...
Posted: Aug 27, 2025
Specialty insurer Beazley has announced the appointment of Jenny Han as Focus Group Leader, Environmental Liability, effective immediately. Han will be based in San Francisco and report to Jerry Sullivan, Head of Professional, Environmental and Me...
Posted: Aug 27, 2025
A wholly owned subsidiary of Sompo International Holdings (SIH) has agreed to acquire all outstanding Class A ordinary shares of Aspen Insurance in a $3.5 billion deal. The transaction has reportedly been unanimously approved by both companiesR...
Posted: Aug 27, 2025
Liberty Mutual Reinsurance (LM Re), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, and Safehub, a provider of seismic sensor and risk management technology, have launched ShakeNet Parametric, an earthquake parametric insurance solution. The move builds o...
Posted: Aug 27, 2025
WTW, an insurance and reinsurance broking group, has significantly expanded its capabilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, underscoring the market’s strategic importance. This expansion is the result of the company securing separate licenses for...
Posted: Aug 27, 2025
Parametric insurtech Sola, a company providing data-driven property insurance solutions, has announced that it has secured $8 million in Series A funding, bringing its total funding to $11.7 million. The round was led by FINTOP Capital and JAM FIN...
Posted: Aug 27, 2025
According to the latest AM Best analysis, global reinsurers met the cost of capital for a second consecutive year in 2024, after four years of failing to do so, despite catastrophes like the California wildfires, driven by strong market performanc...
Posted: Aug 27, 2025
Swiss reinsurer SIGNAL IDUNA Reinsurance Ltd (SI Re) has appointed Simone Debono as Underwriting Manager for Italy and Northern Europe. Debono joins SI Re from Helvetia Re, where she spent more than a decade as Senior Underwriter, managing a portf...
Posted: Aug 27, 2025
Moody’s Corporation has disclosed that Moody’s RMS US Wildfire Model v2.0 has completed the review process established by the California Department of Insurance (CDI), enabling insurers to use the catastrophe model in their residential rate filing...
Posted: Aug 27, 2025
Helios Underwriting, a publicly listed company providing direct access to a range of syndicates at Lloyd’s of London, has released updated mid-point forecasts for its syndicate portfolio covering the 2023 and 2024 years of account, based on second...
Posted: Aug 27, 2025
Vienna Insurance Group has announced that its profit before taxes increased to €531.4 million in H1 2025, representing a 10.5% rise compared to the same period in the previous year, driven in part by a substantially lower overall claims developmen...
Posted: Aug 27, 2025
Lockton, a global independent insurance brokerage, has appointed Ryan Bond in the newly created role of Head of Property and Casualty (P&C) for Bermuda, effective September 8th, 2025, based on the island. In his new role, Bond will report to P...
Posted: Aug 27, 2025
The four largest European reinsurers – Munich Reinsurance Company (Munich Re), Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd (Swiss Re), Hannover Rueck SE (Hannover Re) and SCOR SE – achieved a record average return on equity (ROE) of 21.1% in the first half of 2...
Posted: Aug 27, 2025
Moody’s Corporation has appointed Andy Frepp as Interim President of Moody’s Analytics, effective immediately, succeeding Stephen Tulenko, who has resigned to pursue another opportunity. Most recently, Freep served as the Chief Operating Officer o...
Posted: Aug 27, 2025