Reinsurance News

Renewals an opportunity for global aerospace insurance market to re-set: Gallagher

The 2022/2023 aerospace reinsurance renewals season is a chance to re-set retention levels, policy conditions and pricing levels to enable the global aerospace (GA) insurance market to continue to serve its end-user client base, according to Galla...

Posted: Jan 16, 2023

Skyward Speciality announces pricing of upsized IPO

Skyward Specialty, a P&C insurance holding company part of Westaim Corporation, has priced its upsized initial public offering (IPO) of 8,952,383 shares of its common stock at a price of $15.00 per share, generating proceeds of around $134 mil...

Posted: Jan 16, 2023

Unity critical to solving challenges like climate change: Mumenthaler

Christian Mumenthaler, Group Chief Executive Officer at Swiss Re, has suggested that despite COP27 negotiations leaving plenty of unfinished business, he remains “optimistic” that societies will be willing to set aside differences to a...

Posted: Jan 13, 2023

AXA XL adds Hull and Inland Marine hires in Americas

AXA XL has added three new colleagues to its Americas Marine Insurance business, namely Jonathan Lacorazza as Head of Hull, Carol Warfel as Senior Underwriter, Inland Marine and Cy Villarosa as Associate Underwriter, Inland Marine. Lacorazza has m...

Posted: Jan 13, 2023

Sompo Intl. announces two new appointments for AgriSompo

Sompo International, a global provider of commercial and consumer P&C re/insurance, has announced two new leadership appointments for the firm’s multinational crop insurance platform, AgriSompo. Brad Leighton has been named President of AgriSo...

Posted: Jan 13, 2023

US embedded insurance distribution may exeed $70bn in premium by 2030: Conning

A new report by investment management firm Conning has suggested that embedded insurance could make significant inroads into both personal lines and small commercial insurance business, exceeding $70 billion in premium by 2030. In its report, Conn...

Posted: Jan 13, 2023

Cowbell advises SMEs on cyber catastrophe preparation

Cowbell, a cyber insurance provider for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has released a whitepaper in which it lays out a path to model catastrophic cyber events in the SME market. According to the announcement, the firm’s goal is to to...

Posted: Jan 13, 2023

Falvey ups underwriting capacity with changes to program

Specialist MGA Falvey Insurance Group has announced that it has increased its underwriting capacity from January 1st, via expanded partnerships with its key supporting carriers. In total, Falvey partners with 35 different carriers or syndicates on...

Posted: Jan 13, 2023

Venerable appoints John Herlihy to new roles within its risk organisation

Venerable Holdings, Inc., a provider of risk transfer solutions to variable annuity issuers, has announced the appointment of John Herlihy as Senior Vice President, Head of Trading and Co-Head of Hedging. In the new role, Herlihy will have respons...

Posted: Jan 13, 2023

Aeolus hires MD of Business Development from Elementum

Bermuda domiciled reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) focused investment fund manager, Aeolus Capital Management., has appointed Benjamin Somers as Managing Director of Business Development at Aeolus Services Corp., the US subsidiary...

Posted: Jan 13, 2023

Intact Financial estimates Q4 cat losses at $143m

Intact Financial Corporation, a Toronto-based property and casualty (P&C) insurer, has announced estimated catastrophe losses for Q4 2022 of approximately $143 million, pre-tax. Cat losses in the Canadian segment were: Personal Lines $13 milli...

Posted: Jan 13, 2023

Allianz Australia joins ARPC Cyclone Reinsurance Pool

Allianz Australia Insurance Ltd has joined the Cyclone Reinsurance Pool as an insurer customer, the Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation (ARPC) has announced. According to the announcement, the insurer has joined the cyclone pool for their Home...

Posted: Jan 13, 2023

Reinsurers must seek new opportunities & reprice amid climate pressure: Moody’s

While reinsurers have thus far managed to defend against a rising tide of natural catastrophe losses, more de-risking efforts, new opportunities and further re-pricing measures will all be required for the market to withstand the challenges of cli...

Posted: Jan 13, 2023

WBN appoints Woods as Director of Data, Tech & Security

The Worldwide Broker Network (WBN) has announced the appointment of Steven Woods as Global Director of Data, Technology and Security. At the same time, the WBN also announced the promotion of Liz Yovich to Director of Global Engagement and Employe...

Posted: Jan 13, 2023

Clyde & Co hires Leonardo Giani to launch Milan office

Clyde & Co is to enter the Italian market as it is opening a new office in the country in the coming months. The global law firm has hired leading Leonardo Giani, a partner from Simmons & Simmons’ litigation and insurance team, to head the...

Posted: Jan 13, 2023

AXA renews mandate of research fund for 5 years

AXA has announced that it has renewed the mandate of the AXA Research Fund for a further five years, appointing Professor Debra Roberts President of the Scientific Board of the AXA Research Fund. Since its launch in 2007, the AXA Research Fund, on...

Posted: Jan 13, 2023

Howden Italy welcomes Federico Casini as new CEO

International insurance broker Howden, has announced the appointment of Federico Casini as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Howden Italy. In his new role, Casini will lead a business that is now the third largest broker in the country, and that,...

Posted: Jan 13, 2023

Mosaic opens office in Dubai

Mosaic Insurance has opened an office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, as a strategic regional platform to access risks from across the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia (MEASA) market. The new address is located within the Dubai International Fi...

Posted: Jan 13, 2023

ICIEC signs facultative reinsurance agreement with Uzbekinvest

The Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC), the insurance arm of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group, and the Uzbekinvest Export-Import Insurance Company have signed a Master Reinsurance Agreement to su...

Posted: Jan 13, 2023

Host of economic headwinds continue to constrain US ILS capital: Gallagher

Analysts at Gallagher Securities have suggested the combination of Hurricane Ian losses, lacklustre returns results, the strong US dollar, and a large number of issuances since 2020 are leaving USD insurance-linked securities (ILS) capital constra...

Posted: Jan 12, 2023

Convex promotes Brian Bissett to Group CFO

Specialty insurer and reinsurer Convex has announced the promotion of Brian Bissett to Group Chief Finance Officer (CFO) with immediate effect. Bissett joined Convex at its inception in 2019 as Group Chief Actuary and has more than 30 years of exp...

Posted: Jan 12, 2023

Kuvare announces formation of new Bermuda-based reinsurer Kindley Re

Technology-enabled financial services platform, Kuvare Holdings, has announced the formation of Bermuda-domiciled reinsurer, Kindley Re Ltd, which will co-invest at least $400 million with Kuvare in qualifying life insurance and annuity transactio...

Posted: Jan 12, 2023

Aviva completes £400m buy-in with Interserve

London-headquartered insurer, Aviva has completed a £400 million buy-in of the Interserve Pension Scheme, securing the benefits of more than 7,000 members. This buy-in follows a £300 million pensioner-only buy-in back in 2014 and means that Aviva...

Posted: Jan 12, 2023

Spring Insure is ready for growth after a transformational year: CEO Tristan Sargeaunt

After a transformational 2022, expect to see more of MGA Spring Insure in the months ahead as the company targets greater broker engagement and more distribution activity to support growth, according to its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Tristan S...

Posted: Jan 12, 2023

GRS adds Richard Booker to US Complex Claims team

Global Risk Solutions, a provider of P&C claims adjusting, complex/large loss, and environmental risk management solutions, has added Richard Booker to its Complex Claims Solutions USA division as Senior Executive General Adjuster. Booker’s 38...

Posted: Jan 12, 2023