Reinsurance News
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, 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
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
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
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
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, 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 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
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 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, 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 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
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, 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
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
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, 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
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, 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, 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 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
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
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, 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
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