Reinsurance News

BP Marsh reports NAV increase in latest results

Venture capital provider BP Marsh has reported Net Asset Value (NAV) of £179.8 million for the group’s financial year ended 31 January 2023, compared to £166.6 million from the same period last year. In a statement, BP singled out a number o...

Posted: Feb 14, 2023

Miller appoints Gary Stockley as Account Executive in Bermuda

Specialist re/insurance broker Miller has announced the appointment of Gary Stockley as an Account Executive in its Bermuda office. Stockley has over three and a half decades of experience in the insurance market, primarily as a retail insurance b...

Posted: Feb 14, 2023

BMS Iberia acquires Spanish specialty broker Viafina

BMS Iberia has announced that it has signed a deal to acquire Spanish specialty re/insurance broker, Seguros Viafina. The agreement is set to be completed this month, with BMS acquiring Viafina in full. The deal is subject to regulatory approval b...

Posted: Feb 14, 2023

SCOR expands partnership with insurtech Concirrus

SCOR has announced an expansion of its partnership with Concirrus, which will see the insurtech replace SCOR’s existing data model, enabling the French re/insurer to more accurately price future risks within its marine line of business. The...

Posted: Feb 14, 2023

P&I Clubs underwriting upswing to be offset by investment losses: AM Best

AM Best anticipates that Protection and Indemnity (P&I) clubs will see improved underwriting results in 2023, though the challenging investment environment will likely offset any profits. Best explains that the P&I segment is dominated by...

Posted: Feb 14, 2023

WTW appoints Doshi as Executive Director of Credit & Political Risk, Singapore

Global brokerage firm WTW has announced the appointment of Deesha Doshi as an Executive Director of its Credit & Political Risk practice in Singapore. Doshi holds almost two decades of banking experience, having served at firms such as Westpac...

Posted: Feb 14, 2023

TCIP made claims payments within 24 hours of quake, notified reinsurers: Türk Reasürans CEO

Selva Eren, CEO of Türk Reasürans AŞ, which carries out the technical operations of the Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP), has disclosed that claims payments were made within 24 hours of the devastating earthquake that recently struck the...

Posted: Feb 14, 2023

Sompo Intl. reports positive Q3 underwriting result despite Hurricane Ian’s impact

Sompo International has published its third-quarter of the 2022 financial year results reporting an underwriting income of $256m, a lower figure compared to the same period last year, which was $275m. The firm’s 3Q results felt the impact of Hurri...

Posted: Feb 14, 2023

Just ~5% of $20bn+ in economic losses from Turkey quakes to fall to re/insurers: Verisk

The devastating M7+ earthquakes that occurred in Turkey on February 6th, 2023, are expected to drive economic losses of more than $20 billion, of which insurers and reinsurers will cover more than $1 billion, according to Verisk’s Extreme Ev...

Posted: Feb 14, 2023

Tokio Marine’s international business reports 43% growth in net premiums in Q3

Tokio Marine’s international business has reported profit of JPY187.3 billion for the third quarter of the 2022 fiscal year, representing a slight increase in profit from last year’s JPY186.6 billion. While profit was strong across most of its int...

Posted: Feb 14, 2023

S&P places CCR RE ratings on watch positive on potential acquisition

Following the news of CCR RE potential acquisition by a consortium of French mutuals, S&P Global Ratings has placed its ‘A-‘ issuer credit and financial strength ratings on CCR RE, and its issue ratings on the reinsurer’s deb...

Posted: Feb 14, 2023

MS Amlin falls to net loss as hurricane Ian and war in Ukraine dent underwriting

The impact of investment losses, Hurricane Ian, and the ongoing war in Ukraine has seen MS Amlin post a net loss of £305 million for the period January to end of September 2022, as the firm’s combined ratio weakened to 111.9%. In its financi...

Posted: Feb 14, 2023

Arch Capital reports net income of $850m in Q4 results

Bermuda-based Arch Capital Group has reported net income available to its common shareholders of $849.5 million in Q4 of 2022, a 29.5% annualised net income return on average common equity, compared to $613.1 million for the same quarter of 2021....

Posted: Feb 14, 2023

AIG partners with Stone Point to launch high net worth MGA

Global insurer and reinsurer AIG and Stone Point Capital, a re/insurance focused private equity firm, have entered into an agreement to establish an independent Managing General Agency (MGA) to serve the high net worth and ultra-high net work mark...

Posted: Feb 14, 2023

Ransomware attacks creating repercussions for the insurance industry: Coineect

A new report from Coineect has highlighted how ransomware attacks are creating repercussions for the insurance sector, as companies are being forced to deal with several issues related to the assessment of their customers’ cyber risks and th...

Posted: Feb 14, 2023

Ransomware attacks creating repercussions for the insurance industry: Coinnect

A new report from Coinnect has highlighted how ransomware attacks are creating repercussions for the insurance sector, as companies are being forced to deal with several issues related to the assessment of their customers’ cyber risks and th...

Posted: Feb 14, 2023

Ryan Specialty launches global transactional risk practice

Ryan Specialty, a service provider of specialty products and solutions for insurance, brokers, agents and carriers, has announced the formation of its global transactional risk practice – Ryan Transactional Risk. The firm is creating this global m...

Posted: Feb 14, 2023

Canopius expands Management and Professional lines with new hires

Canopius Group, a global specialty reinsurer, has announced the expansion of Management and Professional lines business in Bermuda with two new appointments. With almost 25 years of industry experience, Mike Butler joins Canopius as Head of Manage...

Posted: Feb 14, 2023

APAC region continues to present re/insurers with growth opportunities: Aon’s Attard

The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region continues to present insures with diversification and growth opportunities, states George Attard, CEO, Reinsurance Solutions, Asia Pacific, Aon. Attard explains that the 1/1 renewal marks a “turning point” for the gl...

Posted: Feb 13, 2023

Ardonagh Specialty brings fac reinsurance capabilities to Inver Re

Ardonagh Specialty has announced that it has brought facultative reinsurance capabilities together in Inver Re. The facultative team from Besso Re – which Ardonagh acquired in 2021 through its takeover of BGC’s insurance operations – will be...

Posted: Feb 13, 2023

Vincent Rensonnet joins Ageas Re’s property underwriting team

Ageas Group’s reinsurance brand, Ageas Re, has named Vincent Rensonnet Lead Underwriter for Latin America and Iberia within its property underwriting team, headed by Jeremy Walker. As a non-life treaty underwriter, Rensonnet brings to the fi...

Posted: Feb 13, 2023

AM Best places Argo’s credit ratings under review

Credit ratings of Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd. and its subsidiaries have been placed under review with developing implications by AM Best, according to a recent statement by the credit rating agency. These ratings include the firm’s Lon...

Posted: Feb 13, 2023

Insurance and preparedness will protect communities against climate change: Allianz

Climate change is creating risk on an unprecedented scale, but insurers can play a role to significantly reduce the degree of their impact by helping to build resilience, according to an Allianz report. As extreme weather events cannot be prevente...

Posted: Feb 13, 2023

Gallagher Re adds Parametric Solutions Lead to its climate resilience practice

Gian Sandosh Semadeni is joining Gallagher Re’s Public Sector & Climate Resilience Solutions global practice as Parametric Solutions Lead. He will be working alongside Antoine Bavandi, who was appointed in 2022 to lead the new practice, and Do...

Posted: Feb 13, 2023

Hard market to increase volatility for primary insurers: Goldman Sachs

Analysts at Goldman Sachs have warned that hardening reinsurance market conditions are causing more volatility in the primary market, as carriers are forced to retain more risk on their balance sheets. At the same time, however, analysts observed...

Posted: Feb 13, 2023