Reinsurance News

Coalition enhances cyber product with addition of Deepfake Response Endorsement

Coalition, an active insurer focused on preventing digital risks, has added a new Deepfake Response Endorsement to its Cyber Insurance policies worldwide. “Businesses can do everything right – lock down networks, ignore fraudulent funds tran...

Posted: Dec 12, 2025

Arch Insurance names Ernesto Medina Gomez as Head of Executive Assurance, Europe

Arch Insurance, a division of Bermuda-based re/insurer, Arch Capital Group, has appointed Ernesto Medina Gomez to the newly created role of Head of Executive Assurance for Europe at Arch Insurance (EU) dac (AIEU), effective immediately. In his new...

Posted: Dec 12, 2025

US commercial insurance market maintains strength amid economic uncertainty: Lockton

Lockton, the privately held, independent insurance broker, reports that the US commercial insurance market remained broadly stable in 2025, though economic uncertainties are expected to influence conditions in 2026. The latest Lockton Market Updat...

Posted: Dec 12, 2025

Willis Re welcomes Non-Marine Property specialist Charlie Hall

Willis Re, a specialised reinsurance broker, has announced the appointment of Charlie Hall, a seasoned reinsurance executive with over a decade of experience in the Non-Marine Property market. Hall joins the firm following a successful tenure at G...

Posted: Dec 12, 2025

Generali & BPCE terminate discussions on establishing asset management JV

Italian-headquartered insurer Generali and banking group BPCE have jointly decided to terminate negotiations related to the establishment of a joint venture in asset management. On 21st January 2025, Generali and BPCE signed a non-binding Memorand...

Posted: Dec 12, 2025

DNIR CEO A.R. Srinivasan resigns, Charbel Yazbeck appointed Acting CEO

Dubai National Insurance & Reinsurance PSC (DNIR), a Public Shareholding company operating in the United Arab Emirates, has announced that A.R. Srinivasan has resigned from his role as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Srinivasan has served in th...

Posted: Dec 12, 2025

Neutral sector view supported by strong capital amid higher loss variability: Morningstar DBRS

DBRS Morningstar, a credit ratings agency known for independent financial analysis and sector research, states that the outlook for Canada’s property and casualty (P&C) insurance market in 2026 remains neutral. According to DBRS Morningstar, t...

Posted: Dec 12, 2025

DUAL Europe appoints new Managing Directors for Transactional Liability Business

DUAL Europe, part of Howden, today announces the immediate appointments of Amaury Berhault and Jaume Benajiba as Managing Directors of its Transactional Liability business in Europe. Berhault and Benajiba each bring over 17 years of expertise in t...

Posted: Dec 12, 2025

Direct Commercial names Steve Knights as London Market New Business Underwriter

Direct Commercial Limited (DCL), a specialist insurance provider, has appointed Steve Knights as London Market New Business Underwriter, effective 9 December 2025. Based at the company’s Lime Street office in London, he will join the New Business...

Posted: Dec 12, 2025

Pen Underwriting and Zurich expand multi-year fleet capacity deal

Pen Underwriting, a multi-class multi-territory managing general agent (MGA), has announced the extension of its decades-long strategic collaboration with Zurich in the UK, with a newly expanded multi-year specialist fleet capacity deal. Building...

Posted: Dec 12, 2025

NFP promotes Noel to EVP and CFO

NFP, an Aon company and provider of property and casualty (P&C) brokerage and benefits consulting, has promoted and expanded Caleb Noel’s role to Executive Vice President (EVP) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Noel is based in Austin a...

Posted: Dec 12, 2025

Marine insurance sector faces rising geopolitical and climate-related risks: Kennedys

Rising geopolitical tensions, ongoing trade disputes, climate-related hazards, and post-Brexit regulatory challenges are creating a complex and volatile risk environment that is testing the resilience of the global marine insurance industry, accor...

Posted: Dec 12, 2025

Munich Re’s HSB Managing Director Terry Dyson to retire in March

HSB (UK & Ireland), a provider of engineering insurance and inspection services, has announced that Terry Dyson, the Managing Director, has decided to retire at the end of March 2026. Dyson has an insurance industry career spanning four decade...

Posted: Dec 12, 2025

Oaktree and Lane42-backed Avocet Partners launches, to acquire EMC Life

Avocet Partners, a new insurance-focused investment and operating platform, has launched backed by $500 million of committed equity capital from funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. and Lane42 Investment Partners, LLC. Led by an exper...

Posted: Dec 12, 2025

Geopolitical alignment essential in new era of tariff deals: Willis

Geopolitical alignment has now become essential for internationally exposed firms’ risk management strategies amid a new trade paradigm, Willis, a WTW business, argues in its latest Political Risk Index. The global trade landscape has been fundame...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

IQUW Bermuda appoints Tristram Prior to lead latest product expansion

Specialty insurer and reinsurer IQUW Bermuda has announced the appointment of Tristram Prior as Head of Professional Lines & Cyber Insurance, where he will lead the launch of its Directors’ & Officers’ (D&O), Financial Institutions (FI...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

Aon provides enhanced access to Latin America catastrophe models via Oasis LMF

Aon plc, a professional services firm, has announced that its Impact Forecasting team is now providing ERN’s Latin America catastrophe models to clients through the Oasis Loss Modelling Framework (Oasis LMF). Latin America is emerging as a key reg...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

Younes to lead Tysers Marine team in Dubai as Divisional Director

Tysers, an independent Lloyd’s insurance broker, part of the Australian AUB Group, has announced the appointment of Younes Younes as a Divisional Director within its Marine team in Dubai. In his new role, Younes will help to drive the development...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

Younes to lead Tysers Non-Marine team in Dubai as Divisional Director

Tysers, an independent Lloyd’s insurance broker, part of the Australian AUB Group, has announced the appointment of Younes Younes as a Divisional Director within its Non-Marine team in Dubai. In his new role, Younes will help to drive the developm...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

Younes to join Tysers Non-Marine team in Dubai as Divisional Director

Tysers, an independent Lloyd’s insurance broker, part of the Australian AUB Group, has announced the appointment of Younes Younes as a Divisional Director within its Non-Marine team in Dubai. In his new role, Younes will help to drive the developm...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

Serenova Re appoints Stelian Dragan as Chief Business Development Officer

Serenova Re, a Bermuda-based reinsurance company backed by Bain Capital and part of the Federal Life Group, has announced the appointment of Stelian Dragan as Chief Business Development Officer. In his new role, Dragan will lead business developme...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

ACCC opposes IAG’s acquisition of RAC WA’s insurance arm

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced its opposition to Insurance Australia Group Limited’s (IAG) proposed acquisition of RAC Insurance Pty Limited (RACI) from the Royal Automobile Club of Western Australia Inc, c...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

Citizens proposes rate reductions for many policyholders

Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, Florida’s state-backed insurer created to provide coverage when private options are unavailable, announced Wednesday that its Board of Governors has approved proposed 2026 rates that would lower average pre...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

RGA welcomes Ryan Krueger as Senior VP, Investor Relations

Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), Incorporated, a global life and health reinsurer, has announced the appointment of Ryan Krueger as Senior Vice President, Investor Relations, effective January 5, 2026. Reporting to Executive Vice President and...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025

LGRA estimates $9bn total premium for US PRT market in Q3’25

Legal & General Retirement America (LGRA), a business unit of Legal & General America, has estimated that total premium of the US Pension Risk Transfer (PRT) market for the third quarter of 2025 will be around $9 billion, a decrease compar...

Posted: Dec 11, 2025