Reinsurance News

Donegal Group reports Q2 $8.2mn net loss

US primary holding company Donegal Group posted a net loss of $8.2 million, compared to a net income of $16.2 million in the prior year quarter. Net premiums earned increased 6.0% to $204.1 million, compared to $192.4 million from Q2 21. At the sa...

Posted: Jul 28, 2022

California Wildfire Fund’s durability assessed as nearly 100%

The latest draft report to the California Catastrophe Response Council and the Legislature on Wildfire Fund Operations states that the fund seems overwhelmingly able to meet its obligations under three different scenarios laid out by experts. The...

Posted: Jul 28, 2022

AXA XL appoints Waters to the new role of Head of US Middle Market

AXA XL Insurance has appointed Matthew Waters to the new role of Head of US Middle Market. Based in Boston, Waters will report to Joe Tocco – AXA XL’s CEO of the Americas. Within this new role Waters will build out AXA XL’s target midd...

Posted: Jul 28, 2022

Lemonade acquisition of Metromile reaches completion

Insurance firm Lemonade has finished acquiring Metromile. Under the terms of the deal, Metromile shareholders received 7.3m Lemonade shares, while Lemonade received a business with over $155m in cash, over $110m in premiums, an insurance entity li...

Posted: Jul 28, 2022

B3i fails to raise new capital, enters insolvency

The Blockchain Insurance Industry Initiative (B3i) has announced that it has filed for insolvency after failing to raise new capital in recent funding rounds. Formed in late 2016, B3i represented a collaboration between various insurers and reinsu...

Posted: Jul 28, 2022

Universal income shrinks amid challenging Florida claims market

Florida headquartered insurer Universal Insurance Holdings has reported a 66% decrease in net income over the second quarter of 2022, from $21.9 million last year to just $7.4 million. The company primarily attributed the decline to a higher net l...

Posted: Jul 28, 2022

Cincinnati Financial reports Q2 $808mn net loss

Cincinnati Financial Corporation has reported a net loss of $808mn for the second quarter of 2022, down from a net income of $703mn for the same period last year. The loss was mainly due to the recognition of a $928mn after-tax reduction in the fa...

Posted: Jul 28, 2022

MAPFRE posts premium growth but misses CR target

Spanish reinsurer Mapfre has released its H1 2021 results, showing its combined ratio rose by 3.2 points to 98.3 %, compared to 95.1% from the year prior. Speaking in a results webcast today, Fernando Mata, MAPFRE’s CFO, said: “The objective...

Posted: Jul 28, 2022

WTW posts 3% organic growth, maintains full-year targets

Re/insurance broker WTW has posted 3% organic revenue growth for the second quarter of 2022, despite total revenues declining by 3% to $2.03 billion. After posting 2% organic growth in Q1, the broker seems to remain slightly below its target of “m...

Posted: Jul 28, 2022

Intermediary consolidation fuelling European M&As

The volume of insurance M&A deals across Europe rose by 26% from 85 to 110 in the second quarter of 2022 compared to Q2 2021, according to the European Insurance M&A Barometer by FTI Consulting. Despite spiralling inflation and rising inte...

Posted: Jul 28, 2022

Arch reports net income of $394.2m in Q2 2022

Arch is reporting in its Q2 2022 results that it saw net income available to Arch common shareholders of $394.2m, alongside after-tax operating income of $506.5m. In addition, the firm said it had seen gross written premiums of $3,869m in Q2 2022,...

Posted: Jul 28, 2022

Insured losses from natural disasters hit $34bn in H1 2022, says Munich Re

Once again, the U.S. led the way in the first half of 2022 with the highest level of weather-related losses, which, globally, reached $65 billion in the period, of which slightly more than 50% were covered by re/insurance, according to Munich Re....

Posted: Jul 28, 2022

SCOR announces key changes to its Board of Directors

Global insurer and reinsurer SCOR has announced several key changes to its Board of Directors. With effect from July 28, 2022, Bruno Pfister, independent director and currently Chairman of the Risk Committee, will take up the chairmanship of the A...

Posted: Jul 28, 2022

Swiss Re GBS India and T-Hub partner to boost insurtech innovations

Swiss Re Global Business Solutions (GBS) India, an analytics and innovation hub of Swiss Re, and T-Hub an innovation hub and ecosystem enabler, have announced a partnership aimed to improve innovation in the insurtech sector. Based in Hyderabad, T...

Posted: Jul 28, 2022

Everest Re reports £386m net operating income in Q2 2022

Everest Re is reporting $386m in net operating income for Q2 2022, alongside 15.3% annualised operating ROE, and net income of $123m. The firm also revealed in a statement that it had over $3.4bn in gross written premiums over the same period, wit...

Posted: Jul 28, 2022

Impacts from Russia’s war against Ukraine keenly felt, says Lloyd’s and Aon report

A new report from Lloyd’s and Aon says that the sector most affected by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will be the energy sector. The report, Ukraine: A Conflict that Changed the World, lays out five plausible scenarios to the industries and geograp...

Posted: Jul 28, 2022

Corvus opens new office in Germany

Corvus Insurance, a provider of smart commercial insurance products, has opened a new continental European office in Frankfurt, Germany. The new office will look to underwrite cyber insurance business for both small- and medium-sized businesses (S...

Posted: Jul 28, 2022

SCOR posts H1 2022 net loss as nat cats, war in Ukraine & COVID-19 hit profitability

French reinsurer SCOR has reported a net loss of €239 million for the first half of 2022, driven by claims related to the drought in Brazil, flooding in Australia and other weather events, the war in Ukraine, and further losses related to the COVI...

Posted: Jul 28, 2022

Fitch revises ARC Limited’s outlook to Positive

Fitch has revised African Risk Capacity (ARC) Limited’s outlook to Positive from Stable and has also affirmed its IFS rating at BBB+. The credit rating agency says that this outlook revision reflects ARC Limited’s “strong progress in meeting its d...

Posted: Jul 28, 2022

Revisions to capital measurement are credit neutral for Chinese insurers – Moody’s

Moody’s Investors Service has realigned the solvency ratio rating triggers for 22 rated Chinese insurers, following revision to capital measurement under the China Risk-Oriented Solvency System (C-ROSS) second phase. The ratings agency says the ch...

Posted: Jul 28, 2022

Newfront appoints Courtney Leimkuhler to Board of Directors

San Francisco-headquartered Tech-enabled broker, Newfront has announced the appointment of Courtney Leimkuhler to the Newfront Board of Directors Brining 20 years in the financial services industry, on both the capital formation and risk managemen...

Posted: Jul 28, 2022

Evolve Capital Partners names Kevin McMurchy to new role

Evolve Capital Partners as named Kevin W. McMurchy as its new managing director of insurance financial institutions investment banking. The firm said in a statement that McMurchy will focus on middle-market transactions within the financial servic...

Posted: Jul 28, 2022

Florida enacts temporary reinsurance plan amid Demotech downgrades

The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has made plans to establish a temporary reinsurance arrangement through Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (Citizens) in the event of what it considers to be “disruptive” financial...

Posted: Jul 27, 2022

Seguros Bolivar partners with digital health platform dacadoo

Colombian insurer Seguros Bolivar has partnered with Swiss insurtech dacadoo to launch Bolivar Conmigo, a free-of-charge wellbeing app that will be available to Colombian residents during the month of July. According to the announcement, Bolivar C...

Posted: Jul 27, 2022

HDI Global appoints John Button as Head of Global Distribution

HDI Global Specialty SE, the specialty lines insurer, has appointed John Button as Head of Global Distribution and Business Development for its Global operations. John will report to Richard Taylor, Member of the Executive Board and Chief Marketin...

Posted: Jul 27, 2022