Reinsurance News
Global reinsurer Munich Re has appointed Till Böhmer as Head of Central Analytics (Data, Analytics and AI Division). Böhmer will serve in this role in an interim capacity for the next nine months, leading the central analytics function. He will be...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
In its full-year 2025 and Q4 results, Chubb reported record P&C underwriting income of $6.53 billion, an 11.6% increase over 2024, alongside a record-low combined ratio of 85.7%. Evan G. Greenberg, Chubb’s Chairman and CEO, hailed 2025 as a gr...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Bermuda-based reinsurer RenaissanceRe (RenRe) generated underwriting income of $669 million for the fourth quarter of 2025 and underwriting income of $1.3 billion for the full year, with a strong performance across the firm’s three drivers o...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Bermuda-based insurer and reinsurer AXIS Capital Holdings Limited has expanded Dan Draper’s role to include serving as the Head of AXIS Re and has appointed Ann Haugh to the newly created role of Group Chief Operations Officer (COO). The appointme...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Verisk, a global data analytics and technology provider to the insurance industry, has estimated insured industry losses to property and auto from Winter Storm Fern to reach $4 billion, largely driven by freeze impacts, with supplemental losses fr...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Zurich and Beazley have confirmed that they have reached an agreement in principle on the key financial terms of a possible recommended cash offer by Zurich for the entire issued and to-be-issued ordinary share capital of specialist insurer Beazle...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
French reinsurer SCOR has disclosed its January 2026 Property & Casualty (P&C) reinsurance renewal results, reporting selective portfolio growth in a competitive pricing environment, with overall estimated gross premium income (EGPI) from...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Sophie Wentges is joining Willis Re’s Catastrophe Analytics team, where she will support the London and Bermuda broking teams and will be based in London. Wentges has around 12 years of experience in specialty catastrophe modelling across broking...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Parag Gupta, Chief Executive Officer of global reinsurer SCOR’s India branch, has said that the country’s low insurance penetration, expanding infrastructure, growing catastrophe exposure, and rising demand for new solutions such as surety bonds,...
Posted: Feb 04, 2026
Applied Systems has released the Q4 2025 results of the Applied Commercial Index, the Canadian insurance industry’s premium rate index, showing that average premium rate change increased year over year for both Personal Auto and Personal Property...
Posted: Feb 03, 2026
Global reinsurance broking and advisory firm Gallagher Re has appointed Minesh Jani as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of India, effective from June 2026. Jani is a reinsurance industry veteran with over three decades of experience. Most recentl...
Posted: Feb 03, 2026
Artificial Labs, a provider of digital broking and underwriting technology for the specialty and commercial insurance markets, has successfully closed a $45 million Series B funding round. The capital injection marks a major milestone for Artifici...
Posted: Feb 03, 2026
Andrew Krasner, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Co-head of Corporate Development at global insurance broker WTW, revealed today that the firm is happy with Willis Re’s participation at the recent January 2026 renewals. After completing the...
Posted: Feb 03, 2026
Global insurance and reinsurance broker Howden has expanded its footprint to Fiji with the establishment of its newest office in Suva. The strategic expansion aligns with Howden’s long-term plan to provide innovative insurance and risk solutions t...
Posted: Feb 03, 2026
Xceedance, a global provider of technology-driven business solutions for the insurance industry, has announced the appointment of Gavin Lillywhite as Senior Vice President (SVP), Business Development, covering the UK and continental European marke...
Posted: Feb 03, 2026
While 2025 concluded as a “broadly supportive” year for insurance buyers, Aon has suggested that market conditions are becoming increasingly differentiated across product lines and geographies, underscoring the growing need for tailored insight an...
Posted: Feb 03, 2026
Global reinsurance broker Gallagher Re has appointed Fabrice Jerlin as its new Chairman for the Middle East and Africa. Jerlin brings over three decades of reinsurance industry experience to this role. He joins Gallagher Re after spending most of...
Posted: Feb 03, 2026
Specialty property insurer Palomar Holdings, Inc. has completed the acquisition of The Gray Casualty & Surety Company (Gray Surety), a national surety carrier, and has also successfully closed new unsecured financing. The acquisition was initi...
Posted: Feb 03, 2026
Ben Sitki joins specialist insurer Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK) as an Underwriter within its Cyber Reinsurance Solutions team. Bringing nearly two decades of re/insurance experience to his new position, joining TMK from Guy Carpenter, where he most rec...
Posted: Feb 03, 2026
Global re/insurance broker WTW saw a slight decrease in revenue for the fourth quarter and full year 2025 when compared to the prior year, driven by the sale of TRANZACT, but on an organic basis, revenue increased for both periods. For the fourth...
Posted: Feb 03, 2026
Hamilton Insurance Group, Ltd., an international specialty insurance and reinsurance group, has announced the promotion of Moussa Thiam to Group Head of Compliance. In this role, Thiam will lead and coordinate compliance activities across Hamilton...
Posted: Feb 03, 2026
Catastrophe risk modelling firm Karen Clark and Company (KCC) has estimated that the privately insured loss from Winter Storm Fern, which brought snow and ice to more than 30 states, will be $6.7 billion. The estimate, which is based on the high-r...
Posted: Feb 03, 2026
Michelle Sipple has joined global insurer Markel’s Property and Marine product leadership team as Managing Director, Inland Marine. Sipple brings more than three decades of inland marine and builders risk underwriting experience to Markel, a...
Posted: Feb 03, 2026
Canopius Group, a global specialty and property and casualty re/insurer, has appointed Jasan Fitzpatrick as General Counsel, effective April 1st, 2026. In this newly created role, Fitzpatrick will report to Neil Robertson, Group Chief Executive Of...
Posted: Feb 03, 2026
Munich Re Specialty – Global Markets, Syndicate, managing agent of Syndicate 457 at the Lloyd’s insurance and reinsurance marketplace, has established The Pandemic Consortium, designed to offer parametric catastrophic communicable disease in...
Posted: Feb 03, 2026