Reinsurance News

MAPFRE RE secures €125m cat bond targeting European wind risk

MAPFRE RE has returned to the catastrophe bond market by sponsoring a new €125 million, three-year issuance specifically designed to protect its European risk portfolio against extreme wind events, which constitute the firm’s main catastroph...

Posted: Nov 26, 2025

Westfield Specialty International appoints Robert Copp as Head of US Marine Treaty

Westfield Specialty International, a specialty insurance provider, has announced the appointment of Robert Copp as Head of US Marine Treaty. In his new role, Copp will focus on US ocean marine, inland marine and offshore energy reinsurance for Nor...

Posted: Nov 26, 2025

Tokio Marine to enhance specialty offerings in US agricultural sector with CIH acquisition

Global insurance group Tokio Marine has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Commodity & Ingredient Hedging (CIH), a provider of risk management solutions for the agricultural and commodity sectors, from Falfurrias Capital...

Posted: Nov 26, 2025

ICIEC welcomes Republic of Sierra Leone as Member Country

The Republic of Sierra Leone has become the 51st member of the Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC), a Shariah-based multilateral insurer and member of the Islamic Development Bank Group. This move highligh...

Posted: Nov 26, 2025

Robert Gagliardi named CEO of SRS Titanium

Strategic Risk Solutions (SRS), an independent insurance company manager, has appointed Robert Gagliardi as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SRS Titanium, a specialised initiative delivering captive insurance solutions for Fortune 500 and other gl...

Posted: Nov 26, 2025

MGA Clearwater UW secures majority investment from Aquiline

Clearwater UW Limited, an expanding specialty managing general agent (MGA) based in London, has received a majority investment from Aquiline, a private investment firm. Aquiline’s backing is set to significantly accelerate Clearwater UW’s strategi...

Posted: Nov 26, 2025

MSIG USA names Ryan Kratz as Head of Cyber, North America

MSIG USA, a provider of specialty commercial insurance, has appointed Ryan Kratz as Head of Cyber, North America, reporting to Siobhan O’Brien, the firm’s Global Head of Cyber. This addition follows MSIG USA’s continued expansion...

Posted: Nov 26, 2025

Lloyd’s Europe to implement Reinsurance Collateral Deposit from Jan 1

Lloyd’s Europe will implement a Reinsurance Collateral Deposit (RCD) from 1st January 2026 for the 2026 Year of Account (YoA) onwards to meet regulatory expectations, following market engagement with support from the LMA. Lloyd’s, the specialist i...

Posted: Nov 25, 2025

Nadia Zacheo joins SRS Altitude as Senior Actuary and Property Underwriter

SRS Altitude, a Managing General Underwriter (MGU) specialising in Alternative Risk Transfer solutions and part of the Strategic Risk Solutions (SRS) group, has appointed Nadia Zacheo as Senior Actuary and Property Underwriter, effective early Jan...

Posted: Nov 25, 2025

Superian expands into Asia & Middle East with specialty reinsurance MGA Podium

Superian Insurance Group, a London headquartered independent insurance intermediary, has announced the launch of its Asia & Middle East focused specialty reinsurance managing general agent (MGA), Podium Underwriting. Podium will specialise in...

Posted: Nov 25, 2025

Liberty Specialty Markets announces senior appointments as part of DAP restructure

Liberty Specialty Markets, a global insurer and reinsurer, has announced several leadership changes as it progresses with the reorganisation of its Delegated Authority Platforms (DAP) division. The updated structure is intended to strengthen opera...

Posted: Nov 25, 2025

Allianz Commercial to open Miami-based Latin America Hub in February 2026

Allianz Commercial has announced plans to open a Miami-based Latin America Hub in February 2026, aiming to capitalise on the city’s role as a leading centre and talent market for the Latin American and Caribbean re/insurance sector. The new office...

Posted: Nov 25, 2025

Michel White joins Prismic Life Re as CEO, Bermuda

Michael White has joined Prismic Life Reinsurance, a Bermuda-based life and annuity reinsurer and Prismic subsidiary, as CEO, Bermuda. The executive is joining the company from InEvo Re, a life & annuity reinsurer specialising in asset-intensi...

Posted: Nov 25, 2025

AM Best warns of prolonged headwinds for US health insurers through 2027

AM Best, the credit rating agency, is continuing its negative outlook for the US health insurance industry as 2026 approaches, pointing to persistent medical cost escalation in Medicare Advantage and a misalignment between rates and member acuity...

Posted: Nov 25, 2025

VIG’s profit increases by 31% to €872.8m at the end of Q3’25

Vienna Insurance Group (VIG) has reported increases across all key figures in results for the first three quarters of 2025, with profit before taxes increasing by 31% to €872.8 million, driven by Special Markets, Poland, the Czech Republic and Aus...

Posted: Nov 25, 2025

TFP’s Pine Walk launches Alternative Risk Transfer MGA Carnovis

Pine Walk, the specialist MGA platform and wholly owned subsidiary of The Fidelis Partnership (TFP), has announced the launch of a new Alternative Risk Transfer managing general agent (MGA), Carnovis Specialty Limited. Based in London, the MGA wil...

Posted: Nov 25, 2025

Beazley expects new Bermuda platform to deliver ~$400m premium by 2030

Beazley, the London headquartered specialist insurer and reinsurer, has confirmed that it foresees “strong growth trajectory” for its new Bermuda platform, with around $400 million in premium expected by 2030. This morning, Beazley ann...

Posted: Nov 25, 2025

Clean data key to a successful AI-driven reinsurance industry: Ben Rose, Supercede

Ben Rose, Co-Founder and President of Supercede, the independent reinsurance platform, said he does not reasonably foresee a successful AI-driven reinsurance industry as things stand, but if the industry reaches a point where it has “clean data fl...

Posted: Nov 25, 2025

QBE Re expands into structured reinsurance with Robert Turner hire

QBE Re, the reinsurance arm of QBE Insurance Group, has announced the appointment of Robert Turner as Global Head of Structured Reinsurance. The hire is part of the company’s strategy to expand into structured reinsurance. In his new role, Turner...

Posted: Nov 25, 2025

Rokstone adds Lucy Barker-Hahlo to its newly launched Cyber unit

Rokstone, an international specialty re/insurance managing general agent (MGA), has announced the appointment of Lucy Barker-Hahlo as Deputy Head of Cyber within its newly launched Cyber division. This follows Rokstone’s announcement last week of...

Posted: Nov 25, 2025

W. R. Berkley appoints Hale Johnston President of Berkley Net

W. R. Berkley Corporation, a commercial lines property and casualty insurance provider, has recently announced that Hale Johnston has been appointed president of Berkley Net, one of its subsidiary companies, effective immediately. Johnston succeed...

Posted: Nov 25, 2025

ICA declares Queensland hailstorms an Insurance Catastrophe as claims surge

The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has declared an Insurance Catastrophe for the strong winds and damaging hail that impacted South East Queensland between Sunday, 23 November and Monday, 24 November, noting that insurers have already receiv...

Posted: Nov 25, 2025

Lack of discipline in unprofitable US cyber market is somewhat surprising: Beazley CEO

Adrian Cox, Chief Executive Officer of specialist insurer Beazley, said this morning that the US cyber insurance market is now unprofitable and continues to soften given the active claims environment. London headquartered Beazley reported today th...

Posted: Nov 25, 2025

HBC Group expands into Nordics with Danish agency DUAN acquisition

HBC Group, one of the leading insurance intermediary groups in the German-speaking region, has expanded its international marine expertise and Nordic market footprint with the acquisition of DUPI Underwriting Agencies Nordics A/S (DUAN). DUAN, a D...

Posted: Nov 25, 2025

Beazley reveals new Bermuda platform as 9M’25 premiums rise

As specialist insurer Beazley announces a solid set of results for the first nine months of 2025, albeit with muted 1% year-on-year growth in insurance written premiums, the London headquartered firm has also unveiled a new Bermuda platform to sup...

Posted: Nov 25, 2025