Reinsurance News

Lemonade launches Homeowners insurance in France

Expanding on its existing partnership with BNP Paribas Cardif, digital insurance company Lemonade has launched Homeowners insurance in France. Lemonade noted that with its European business making significant strides in 2023, the launch of Homeown...

Posted: Apr 10, 2024

Upfort names former At-Bay & Hiscox exec Brett Sadoff as Advisor

Upfort, a cutting-edge cyber security and insurance platform, has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of cyber security and insurance expert Brett Sadoff to its advisory board. In this role, Sadoff is responsible for helping to steer...

Posted: Apr 10, 2024

Boost Insurance partners with Amwins Program Underwriters on LPL programs

Boost Insurance, the insurance infrastructure platform, has partnered with Amwins Program Underwriters, part of Amwins Underwriting Division, to launch an enhanced, technology-enabled version of Lawyers Professional Liability (LPL) programs along...

Posted: Apr 10, 2024

Re/insurers key in helping accelerate deployment of climate tech: The Geneva Association

Re/insurers are essential to rolling out the climate technology needed for industries to decarbonise, according to a recent report by The Geneva Association, the global association of insurance companies. In a race to meet global climate targets,...

Posted: Apr 09, 2024

Summit secures $3.5m investment to revolutionise commercial brokerage sector

Summit has recently secured $3.5 million in seed funding, marking a significant step towards its long-term objective of building the commercial insurance brokerage of the future. This investment was led by IA Capital Group, with additional funding...

Posted: Apr 09, 2024

Reinsurers deploying more capital to grow in hard market following record 2023: Berenberg

As per a new Berenberg report, reinsurers and alternative capital providers have become increasingly confident in deploying more capital to grow in the hard market following a record year in 2023. According to Berenberg, this dynamic is currently...

Posted: Apr 09, 2024

WTW adds Mary J. Bahna-Nolan to its Life Insurance Consulting & Technology team

WTW, the global re/insurance broker has announced that Mary J. Bahna-Nolan has joined the firm as a Senior Director on the North American Insurance Consulting & Technology (ICT) team, where she will be based in Chicago. In the role, she will r...

Posted: Apr 09, 2024

Ardonagh Advisory expands into northwest England through SIB Insurance acquisition

Ardonagh Advisory has expanded its presence in the northwest of England with the recent acquisition of Southport Insurance Brokers Limited (SIB Insurance), an independent commercial broker. Founded in 1965, SIB Insurance is a well-established regi...

Posted: Apr 09, 2024

GeoVera combines insurance carriers with SafePort, sells MGA to SageSure

GeoVera Insurance Holdings, Ltd. has announced its plans to sell its managing general agent business, GeoVera Advantage Insurance Services, Inc., to SageSure; once the deal closes, a new entity named GeoVera Nova Holdings, Inc. (GeoVera Nova) will...

Posted: Apr 09, 2024

Latin Re appoints Diogo Costa as Head of Oil & Gas and Construction

Latin Re, the Brazilian independent reinsurance brokerage, has appointed Diogo Costa as the Head of Oil & Gas and Construction. This appointment aims to strengthen the broker’s market position in the Latin American market, consolidating its re...

Posted: Apr 09, 2024

Q1’24 catastrophe bond issuance rises 30% year-on-year to record $4.23bn: Report

Catastrophe bond issuance in the first quarter of 2024 reached a huge $4.23 billion, which is a record for the opening quarter of the year, and comes in 30% above the Q1 2023 total and 37% above the 10-year average for the quarter, according to ou...

Posted: Apr 09, 2024

Novidea raises additional $30m from HarbourVest Partners

Global insurtech Novidea has raised an additional $30 million from HarbourVest Partners, bringing its total Series C round to $80 million, joining existing investors Battery Ventures, Cross Creek, Israel Growth Partners (IGP), KT Squared, and JAL...

Posted: Apr 09, 2024

Corebridge Financial completes AIG Life UK sale to Aviva

Corebridge Financial, a quoted subsidiary of American International Group, Inc (AIG) has completed the sale of its UK life insurance business, operating as AIG Life Limited (AIG Life UK), to Aviva for £453 million. The sale was previously announce...

Posted: Apr 09, 2024

2024 a milestone year for European re/insurers as tech and regulation advances: Clearwater’s Wenzhe...

In a recent interview with Reinsurance News, Wenzhe Sheng, Senior Product Manager for EMEA Prudential Regulations at Clearwater Analytics, discussed the latest developments on technical regulation and how that is impacting insurers in the European...

Posted: Apr 09, 2024

Pantheon appoints Howard Green to its Board following B.P. Marsh investment

Pantheon Specialty Limited has appointed Howard Green, former Chairman of Besso Insurance Group Limited, to its Board, subject to regulatory approval. If you recall, B.P. Marsh invested in Pantheon in June of 2023, alongside its Founder and CEO Ro...

Posted: Apr 09, 2024

Underwriting veteran Ashleigh Sears joins USQRisk as Head of Casualty

USQRisk, an international managing general agent (MGA) specialising in alternative risk transfer and unique risk solutions, has announced the appointment of Ashleigh Sears as Head of Casualty. Having joined the USQRisk team on April 2, Sears will...

Posted: Apr 09, 2024

Reserve releases benefited reinsurer CoRs by 1.8% in 2023: Gallagher Re

Analysis by reinsurance brokerage Gallagher Re finds that, on average, reserve releases benefited reinsurance company combined ratios by 1.8% in 2023, a small increase on 2022’s 1.4%, which is far lower than 2014-2018 levels. The contribution of r...

Posted: Apr 09, 2024

AGCS to focus on U.S. Large Corporate and Specialty insurance with sale of Fireman’s Fund insurance...

Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE (AGCS), Allianz Group’s carrier for large corporate and specialty insurance, has announced it is to focus on U.S. Large Corporate and Specialty insurance with the sale of its U.S. MidCorp and Entertainme...

Posted: Apr 09, 2024

Lockton bolsters Norway leadership team with key appointments

Lockton Norway AS has announced a series of key leadership changes within the company, including Anders Johannessen becoming CEO of Lockton’s Norway business from May 1, 2024. The company has confirmed that his predecessor Cato Aamodt will remain...

Posted: Apr 09, 2024

Cytora Partners with TradeAtlas for enhanced decision-making in marine insurance

Cytora, a digital risk processing platform, has partnered with TradeAtlas, a global trade data company, to provide marine insurers with extensive import and export data for quicker and more precise risk assessments. Juan de Castro, Chief Commercia...

Posted: Apr 09, 2024

Insurable losses from Taiwan earthquake to be between $5-$8bn CoreLogic estimates

CoreLogic estimates insurable losses from the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that hit Taiwan on April 3, 2024 will be between $5.0 and $8.0 billion. This is considered the largest quake to hit the country in the last 25 years. Having occurred at 7.58 am...

Posted: Apr 09, 2024

Optalitix partners with First Street to allow US data to be incorporated in underwriting

Optalitix, the specialist data analytics solutions provider, is strategically partnering with First Street, a provider of physical climate risk data, to help insurers incorporate its unique United States datasets into their underwriting process. O...

Posted: Apr 09, 2024

PCS designates Baltimore bridge collapse incident under its Global Marine & Energy solution

Property Claim Services (PCS), a division of Verisk, has designated the Baltimore Bridge collapse incident, caused by the container ship Dali striking one of its support columns, under its Global Marine & Energy product. The division’s p...

Posted: Apr 09, 2024

Brown & Brown makes senior appointments

Brown & Brown, Inc., an insurance brokerage firm, has appointed David Putz as Executive Vice President, Arrowhead General Insurance Agency, and Niels Seebeck as the President of Arrowhead’s Risk Managers Program. Putz’s remit as EVP of A...

Posted: Apr 09, 2024

Jensten further expands broking services with Scrutton Bland acquisition

Jensten, a UK brokerage and underwriting firm, has announced its acquisition of Scrutton Bland Insurance Brokers, aimed at enhancing its ability to provide high-quality broking services across multiple sectors. The acquisition brings onboard a tea...

Posted: Apr 09, 2024