Reinsurance News

Westfield Specialty posts 89.9% CoR and $92m underwriting income in 9M’25

Westfield Specialty, a global specialty insurance carrier, reported a strong combined ratio of 89.9% for the first nine months of 2025, alongside underwriting income of $92 million, which are “considerably ahead of planned results.” For 9M’25, gro...

Posted: Nov 07, 2025

Strong underwriting drives Fairfax Q3’25 net earnings, CoR improves to 92.0%

Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited has announced its financial result for the third quarter of 2025, reporting net earnings of $1,151.7 million, increasing from the $1,030.8 million net earnings reported in the same period last year. This increase...

Posted: Nov 07, 2025

Laws to succeed Nutter as President and CEO, Reinsurance Association of America

The Reinsurance Association of America (RAA), a national trade association representing property and casualty reinsurers operating in the United States, has appointed Tracey Laws as its President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective Decemb...

Posted: Nov 07, 2025

Liberty Mutual sees strong Q3’25 results with $2.22bn net income and 84.7% CoR

Liberty Mutual Holding Company (LMHC) has reported net income of $2.22 billion, and a consolidated combined ratio of 84.7% for the third quarter of 2025, driven by strong underwriting performance and a drop in catastrophe losses Q3 2025’s net inco...

Posted: Nov 07, 2025

Palomar’s net income rises 68.7% to $51.5m in Q3’25

Specialty insurer Palomar Holdings, Inc. reported a net income of $51.5 million in the third quarter of 2025, up 68.7% from $30.5 million in the same period a year earlier. In Q3’25, gross written premiums increased 43.9% to $597.2 million, compar...

Posted: Nov 07, 2025

Moody’s RMS expects Hurricane Melissa’s private market insured losses between $3-5bn

Catastrophe risk modeller Moody’s RMS Event Response has estimated private market insured losses driven primarily by wind impacts in Jamaica, with minimal contributions from other impacted Caribbean islands, including the Bahamas, Haiti, and...

Posted: Nov 07, 2025

Jamaica gets additional $21.1m from CCRIF’s excess rainfall parametric policy for Melissa

The government of Jamaica is set to receive a second payout of USD 21.1 million following the passage of Hurricane Melissa, which has triggered the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility Segregated Portfolio Company’s (CCRIF SPC) excess rai...

Posted: Nov 07, 2025

GILC report reveals rising catastrophe costs and insurance innovations to close protection gap

Global Insurance Law Connect (GILC), an international network of law firms specialising in insurance and reinsurance, has published its inaugural Property Catastrophe and Climate Governance Report, drawing on contributions from 23 member firms wor...

Posted: Nov 07, 2025

Founder Akin Båmstedt assumes CEO role at 1B Insurance

1B Insurance has announced that founder Akin Båmstedt has officially assumed full executive leadership as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), taking over from John Morley. Based in Zug, Switzerland, 1B Insurance is dedicated to securing emerging techno...

Posted: Nov 07, 2025

Marco Capital finalises acquisition of R&Q Gamma

Marco Capital Holdings Limited, a European group specialising in the acquisition and management of property and casualty (P&C) insurance run-off portfolios and companies, has finalised the purchase of R&Q Gamma Company Limited. R&Q Gam...

Posted: Nov 07, 2025

EDME Insurance Brokers appoints Vinod Krishnan as CEO of its Treaty Reinsurance Division

EDME Insurance Brokers, one of India’s largest insurance and reinsurance broking firms, has announced the appointment of Vinod Krishnan as the Chief Executive Officer of its Treaty Reinsurance vertical. In his new role, Krishnan will spearhead the...

Posted: Nov 07, 2025

AI adoption drives productivity growth and opens business opportunities: Hiscox CFO Cooper

Specialist insurer Hiscox’s multi-year collaboration with Google is serving as a central growth driver for the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning across its business, according to comments by the company’s CFO, Paul Co...

Posted: Nov 07, 2025

Baldwin Group names Valerio as COO, Insurance Advisory Solutions

The Baldwin Group, an independent insurance distribution firm, has appointed Joe Valerio as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Insurance Advisory Solutions (IAS), the firm’s retail property and casualty and employee benefits brokerage business. In h...

Posted: Nov 07, 2025

Nirvana and Pulse merge to create specialty MGA platform

Managing General Agents (MGAs) Nirvana and Pulse have officially completed their planned merger, following regulatory approval from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Financial terms were not disclosed. The newly combined entity established a...

Posted: Nov 07, 2025

Kestrel Group reports Q3’25 total revenue of $17.4m

Kestrel Group Ltd, a recently established specialty insurance platform that provides fronting services to program managers, reinsurers, and reinsurance brokers, has reported total third quarter 2025 revenues of $17.4 million compared to $752 thous...

Posted: Nov 06, 2025

We expect strong year for reinsurer profitability in 2025, discipline key at 1.1: AM Best

AM Best expects another strong year of operating profitability for the reinsurance sector in 2025, supported by a relatively benign third quarter for catastrophe activity, while emphasising that reinsurers must maintain discipline at the upcoming...

Posted: Nov 06, 2025

Juniper Re expands with New York City office and appointment of Bo Wulsin as Broker

Juniper Re, a reinsurance brokerage firm, has announced the opening of its New York City office and the appointment of Bo Wulsin as Broker. Wulsin joins Juniper Re with ten years of experience in the re/insurance industry, having previously held b...

Posted: Nov 06, 2025

Slide reports record numbers in Q3’25 with 48.5% CoR and $111m net income

Slide Insurance Holdings, Inc, has announced its financial results for the third quarter of 2025, reporting a significant net income increase, to $111 million, gross premiums written growth of 33.8%, and record low combined ratio of 48.5%. This ye...

Posted: Nov 06, 2025

White Mountains’ Ark/WM Outrigger sees GWP soar as CoR improves

White Mountains has reported Q3 2025 results for its property and casualty re/insurance segment, Ark/WM Outrigger, which recorded gross written premiums of $366 million and an improved combined ratio of 73%. Ark/WM Outrigger also saw net written p...

Posted: Nov 06, 2025

The Fidelis Partnership launches Construction Consortium for AI data centres

The Fidelis Partnership (TFP), a privately-owned managing general underwriter (MGU), has announced the launch of a new consortium targeting risks associated with the construction of artificial intelligence (AI) data centres. With estimates suggest...

Posted: Nov 06, 2025

Howden expands marine insurance services into Japan

Howden, an insurance brokerage and risk advisory firm, has officially launched its marine insurance services in Japan, marking an important step in its continued growth across Asia. The new operations will be led by Koji Aragane, Marine Director,...

Posted: Nov 06, 2025

Insured losses from Hurricane Melissa impacts in Jamaica and Cuba to hit $2.4bn: KCC

The privately insured loss from Hurricane Melissa damages to residential, commercial, and industrial properties in Jamaica and Cuba is expected to hit $2.4 billion, based on Karen Clark & Company’s (KCC) high-resolution Caribbean Hurrica...

Posted: Nov 06, 2025

Allstate’s total revenues reach $17.3bn in Q3’25 amid lower cat losses

Allstate Corporation reported total revenues of $17.3 billion in Q3 2025, up $628 million, or 3.8%, from the same quarter in 2024. Net income applicable to common shareholders reached $3.7 billion in Q3 2025, compared with $1.2 billion in Q3 2024,...

Posted: Nov 06, 2025

Jeff Bright to lead Carbon’s US strategy as Underwriting Director

Carbon Underwriting Limited, a specialist independent managing general underwriter and Lloyd’s Syndicate CBN 4747, has appointed Jeff Bright as Underwriting Director, effective November 3rd, 2025. The appointment marks a key milestone in Carbon’s...

Posted: Nov 06, 2025

There’s an opportunity to bring fresh parametric capacity to Asia: Qin, Descartes

Descartes Underwriting, the specialist in corporate parametric solutions, sees a growing opportunity to bring fresh, sustainable parametric capacity to Asia, particularly within frequency layers where insurers are facing higher retentions, accordi...

Posted: Nov 06, 2025