Reinsurance News
Universal Insurance Holdings has announced net income of $33.7 million for the first quarter of 2024, an increase of more than 39% on the prior year quarter, as the company’s combined ratio strengthened by 4.5 percentage points to 95.5%. As...
Posted: Apr 26, 2024
Global insurance broker A. J. Gallagher & Co. has reported net earnings of $612.7 million for the first quarter of 2024, an increase of 26% on the $486.6 million seen a year earlier, driven by a strong performance in both its brokerage and ris...
Posted: Apr 26, 2024
Global insurance and reinsurance brokerage Aon has completed the previously announced acquisition of NFP, a middle-market property and casualty broker, benefits consultant, wealth manager and retirement plan advisor. This acquisition expands Aon&#...
Posted: Apr 26, 2024
Reinsurance giant Swiss Re, as part of a partnership with automotive tech firm Luminar, has recently completed a milestone in the safety performance assessment of Luminar’s LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) and software driving system. Las...
Posted: Apr 26, 2024
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI), a property and casualty insurer (P&C), has announced the appointment of Hart Humble to the newly created position of Head of Customer & Broker Engagement for the South Central U.S. In her new...
Posted: Apr 26, 2024
Omaha National Group Inc., the tech-enabled provider of workers’ compensation insurance, has acquired Sutter Insurance Company, a California-domiciled inusrer. Sutter has been renamed to Omaha National Casualty Company, owned by Omaha National whi...
Posted: Apr 26, 2024
Joachim Wenning, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Munich Re, is confident that the favourable market environment for property and casualty (P&C) reinsurers will continue throughout 2024, after a positive January 1st reinsurance renewal period....
Posted: Apr 25, 2024
US primary holding company Donegal Group has reported a 6.0% increase in net premiums written (NPW) for the first quarter of 2024, reaching $251.4 million, compared to $237.3 million from the prior year quarter. The firm explained that the $14.1 m...
Posted: Apr 25, 2024
Great American Insurance Group has unveiled the formation of a dedicated embedded insurance team, which builds upon the company’s 20 years of experience offering embedded insurance products, set to be led by Chris Banocy, Divisional Senior V...
Posted: Apr 25, 2024
Marsh, the insurance broking division of Marsh McLennan, has established a new unit which combines its expertise and strategy in parametrics, alternative risk transfer, captives, and complex risk under a single practice, called Global Alternative...
Posted: Apr 25, 2024
Sapiens International Corporation, a global provider of software solutions for the insurance sector, has launched its latest version of Sapiens ReinsuranceMaster. According to the announcement, this latest version enhances operational efficiency,...
Posted: Apr 25, 2024
MAPFRE RE, the reinsurance arm of Madrid-headquartered insurer MAPFRE, has reported that premiums, which include the reinsurance and Global Risks businesses, are up 7%, in the first quarter of 2024, reaching nearly €2.2 billion. At the same time,...
Posted: Apr 25, 2024
MAPFRE RE, the reinsurance arm of Madrid-headquartered insurer MAPFRE, has reported that premiums, which include the reinsurance and Global Risks businesses, are up 7% in the first quarter of 2024, reaching nearly €2.2 billion. At the same time, t...
Posted: Apr 25, 2024
Insurance industry losses from US severe weather events have already surpassed $10 billion for this year, with the toll for many events still being calculated. However, forecasts for the coming days and weeks could wind up taking the toll on par w...
Posted: Apr 25, 2024
Sources have told Reuters that Russian National Reinsurance, the country’s state-owned reinsurer, has given financial backing to three insurers, enabling the Russian carriers to seek Indian approval to provide marine cover to tankers. The ne...
Posted: Apr 25, 2024
The Forum for Insurance Transition to Net Zero (FIT) has been announced by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which reportedly considers the experience gained with the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA), which has been discontinued f...
Posted: Apr 25, 2024
Tokio Marine HCC has selected Akur8’s Core Platform Solution to fuel innovation and to build high-performing pricing models, produce analytics and report with ease for powerful insights, and facilitate knowledge sharing across entities. Akur8 buil...
Posted: Apr 25, 2024
Global insurance broker WTW has announced 5% organic revenue growth to more than $2.34 billion for the first quarter of 2024, although Group net income fell by 6% year-on-year to $194 million. Alongside the slight dip in net income, WTW has report...
Posted: Apr 25, 2024
Lockton, an independent insurance broker, has recently announced two senior promotions within its Crisis Management team: Helen Sandford as Head of Special Crime and Freddie Schlesinger as Head of Product Recall and Reputational Risk. In their new...
Posted: Apr 25, 2024
Goosehead Insurance, Inc., an independent personal lines insurance agency, has posted a net income of $1.8 million in their results for the first quarter of 2024, compared to a net loss of $0.2 million from the prior year period. At the same time,...
Posted: Apr 25, 2024
R&Q Insurance Holdings has announced that it has entered into a lock-up agreement with several parties relating to debt restructuring and a number of other issues, as it seeks their approval to sell Accredited to Onex Corporation’s Onex Partne...
Posted: Apr 25, 2024
ICEYE, a provider of satellite-powered disaster management solutions, has announced a multi-year flood and wildfire data collaboration with Juniper Re, the reinsurance broking arm and an indirect subsidiary of BRP Group, Inc. Juniper Re will lever...
Posted: Apr 25, 2024
Hiscox Re & ILS and Ariel Re have launched CyberShock, a new cyber catastrophe consortium designed to improve certainty of coverage in the cyber insurance space. This new consortium will offer up to USD 50 million of per-programme capacity pro...
Posted: Apr 25, 2024
Global insurer AIG recently appointed Gero Michel, previously Group Chief Risk Officer (CRO) of AIG Re, as its Head of Underwriting Analytics based in Bermuda. Michel has been with AIG since early 2020, when he joined the firm’s reinsurance...
Posted: Apr 25, 2024
The property insurance market in hurricane-prone Louisiana faces escalating challenges due to rising premiums and the expenses of claims following severe weather events, according to analysts at Moody’s Investors Service. Moody’s recent report hig...
Posted: Apr 25, 2024