Reinsurance News
Ledger Investing, an insurtech and insurance-linked securities (ILS) focused venture-backed company, has expanded its casualty ILS capabilities with the launch of two new Cayman-based subsidiaries. The firm has created Ledger Re SPC as a reinsurer...
Posted: Aug 06, 2024
Applied Systems has released the second quarter 2024 results of the Applied Commercial Index, the Canadian insurance industry’s premium rate index, which shows that average premium rates decreased year-over-year across the most commonly placed com...
Posted: Aug 06, 2024
Carrot General Insurance, the Korean digital insurance firm, has acquired the exclusive right to use for behavioural-based insurance (BBI) for six months from the General Insurance Association of Korea. It’s important to stress how significa...
Posted: Aug 06, 2024
Tokio Marine HCC – Cyber & Professional Lines Group (CPLG), a Houston-based division of Tokio Marine HCC that offers insurance solutions for cyber risks and professional liability, has announced important changes to its Professional Lines lead...
Posted: Aug 06, 2024
Concern about artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced malicious attacks is once again the top emerging risk for enterprise in the second quarter of 2024, a recent Gartner, Inc.’s survey has revealed. Gartner surveyed 274 senior risk executives and m...
Posted: Aug 06, 2024
The Hull and Machinery insurance market has remained relatively static in the first half of 2024, according to analysts at Gallagher Specialty, who have also noted the looming possibility of a slight softening as the year goes on. The market has s...
Posted: Aug 06, 2024
Peel Hunt’s analysis of the Bermudian specialty reinsurance market for the first half of 2024 highlights a growing trend in cycle management, with re/insurers becoming more selective about where to expand their exposures and choosing to redu...
Posted: Aug 05, 2024
Hybrid insurer Hadron has announced that its UK business, Folgate Insurance Company Limited, will be rebranded as Hadron UK Insurance Company Limited (Hadron UK), alongside three key appointments. Hadron entered the UK market in February 2024 thro...
Posted: Aug 05, 2024
Markel, the insurance operations within Markel Group Inc., has announced several key appointments to its Singapore and Hong Kong teams, strengthening its operations and underwriting capabilities in the Asia Pacific region. Alvernia Xu has been nam...
Posted: Aug 05, 2024
Emerald Bay Risk Solutions, a cooperative underwriting carrier, has announced a strategic alliance with Curotech Specialty, a technology-driven managing general agent, to launch an excess and surplus commercial property programme. The programme is...
Posted: Aug 05, 2024
EBM Insurance & Risk, an Australian privately owned insurance broker, has announced a strategic partnership with CyberCube, a provider of cyber risk analytics. Through this partnership, EBM will implement CyberCube’s Broking Manager and...
Posted: Aug 05, 2024
Industry veteran Chris Brown has been appointed CEO of Lockton International, where he will oversee Europe, Latin America, Asia, Pacific (Australia & New Zealand), and Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Boasting over a decade of leadership e...
Posted: Aug 05, 2024
A $4.037 billion settlement has been reached resolving claims arising from the Maui, Hawaii wildfires in August 2023, according to the state’s Governor Josh Green. As Reinsurance News understands, the settlement addresses around 450 lawsuits...
Posted: Aug 05, 2024
AXA Hong Kong and Macau has announced the launch of the market-first “Heatwave Parametric Insurance”, a new offer created to provide enhanced protection for outdoor practitioners amid escalating climate risks in the summer in Hong Kong...
Posted: Aug 05, 2024
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of The Hanover Insurance Group, Jeffrey Farber, has revealed that pricing was “significantly better” than expected at the firm’s July reinsurance renewal. During The Hano...
Posted: Aug 05, 2024
Fabian Desch has been appointed as the next general manager for QBE’s Germany unit, pending regulatory approval. Desch, who will start his new role once all regulatory approvals are in place, will report to Beatriz Valenti, director of Insur...
Posted: Aug 05, 2024
French reinsurer SCOR is considering to buy more retrocession reinsurance to protect solvency, but dividends remain at risk, as interest rates and an active hurricane season add pressure to its balance sheet, according to Berenberg analysts. SCOR’...
Posted: Aug 05, 2024
Arch Insurance International, part of Bermuda-based re/insurer Arch Capital Group Ltd., has promoted Marie Penberthy to Chief Financial Officer (CFO), subject to regulatory approval. Penberthy will be based in London, reporting to Hugh Sturgess, P...
Posted: Aug 05, 2024
Price Forbes has bolstered its leadership team with the appointment of Julian Coates as Chief Broking Officer of the firm’s Singapore unit. Based in Singapore, Coates will hold responsibility for developing Price Forbes’ broking strate...
Posted: Aug 05, 2024
US primary insurer Allstate opted to shrink the size of its 2024-2025 Florida excess catastrophe reinsurance program at the mid-year reinsurance renewals, and also added $90 million of limit to the top of its Nationwide coverage. This is now the s...
Posted: Aug 05, 2024
With tropical storm Debby recently intensifying into a category 1 hurricane, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) has warned of further strengthening, as an imminent landfall is anticipated in the Big Bend area of the Florida Panhandle. According t...
Posted: Aug 05, 2024
AXA has entered into an agreement to acquire Gruppo Nobis for an upfront payment of €423 million, with a potential additional earn-out of up to €55 million. Nobis is a predominantly Retail property and casualty (P&C) insurance company in Italy...
Posted: Aug 05, 2024
Independent specialist re/insurance broker Miller has appointed Edward Cheak as Head of Credit and Political Risk Insurance (Asia). According to the firm, Cheak’s appointment comes as it continues the expansion of its presence and offerings...
Posted: Aug 05, 2024
Global reinsurer Swiss Re has appointed Alan Wilson as a member of the Board of Directors for its Asian business, Swiss Re Asia Pte. Ltd. (SRAL). Wilson is an industry veteran with 45 years of experience, and stepped into his new role on August 1s...
Posted: Aug 05, 2024
Marsh McLennan Agency, a subsidiary of Marsh, has completed the acquisition of The Horton Group, Inc., a full-service insurance brokerage based in Illinois, US. Horton, which was founded in 1971, offers property and casualty insurance, employee be...
Posted: Aug 05, 2024