Reinsurance News

Antares Global names Andy Bridgwood and Chris Early as joint Class Cargo Underwriters

Antares Global, a specialist Lloyd’s syndicate known for providing tailored marine, aviation, and property insurance solutions, has strengthened its leadership team with the promotion of Andy Bridgwood and Chris Early to joint Class Cargo Underwri...

Posted: Nov 14, 2025

Allianz reports highest 9M operating profit ever in 2025

Amid sustained, broad-based momentum across its businesses, Allianz has reported an operating profit of €13.1 billion for the first nine months of 2025, its highest nine-month result on record and equivalent to 82% of the midpoint of its full-year...

Posted: Nov 14, 2025

Aspen reports improved Q3’25 CoR of 86.8% as underwriting result rises to $94.4m

Bermuda-domiciled insurer and reinsurer, Aspen Insurance Holdings, has reported a combined ratio of 86.8% for the third quarter of 2025, an improvement of 8.4 percentage points from the 95.2% achieved in the same period last year. This improved co...

Posted: Nov 14, 2025

Upstream profitability and downstream losses shape 2026 insurance outlook: WTW

Insurance buyers are set to remain in a strong negotiating position for both cost and coverage as the market moves into 2026, according to the Energy Market Review Update published by Willis, a WTW business. Willis reports that the upstream energy...

Posted: Nov 14, 2025

Pen Underwriting enters renewable energy market

Pen Underwriting, a multi-class, multi-territory managing general agent (MGA), has launched a new risk management-led insurance product serving the needs of the waste-to-energy anaerobic digestion (AD) industry, thereby entering into the renewable...

Posted: Nov 14, 2025

Aviva’s General Insurance premiums rise 12% to £10bn in 9M’25

British insurer Aviva reported General Insurance premiums of £10 billion in the first nine months of 2025, up 12% from £9.1 billion in the same period a year earlier. By region, UK & Ireland General Insurance premiums increased 17% to £6.7 bil...

Posted: Nov 14, 2025

Swiss Re’s Group net income rises 85% as P&C reinsurance delivers 77.6% CoR

Swiss Re, one of Europe’s big four reinsurers, recorded net income of more than $4 billion for the first nine months of 2025, an increase of 85% on the prior year’s $2.2 billion, as the property and casualty (P&C) reinsurance resul...

Posted: Nov 14, 2025

SCOR’s Daniel Duesterhaus joins the Ruschlikon ePlacing Steering committee

Ruschlikon, a global community of insurers, brokers and reinsurers powered by ACORD, has announced that Daniel Duesterhaus of SCOR has joined its ePlacing Steering Committee, bringing deep expertise in underwriting innovation and broker partnershi...

Posted: Nov 14, 2025

ShoreOne expands residential homeowners policy with flood coverage to Rhode Island

ShoreOne Insurance Managers, Inc., a provider of specialised insurance solutions for homeowners and agencies, has launched its residential homeowners policy in Rhode Island, now including comprehensive flood insurance coverage. The policy combines...

Posted: Nov 14, 2025

RGA study highlights potential of incretin-based therapies to improve global health outcomes

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated, a provider of life and health reinsurance solutions, has released new research that evaluates the potential effects of incretin-based therapies, including GLP-1 medications, on mortality and morbidity. T...

Posted: Nov 13, 2025

Descartes Underwriting adopts mea Platform to power parametric growth

Descartes Underwriting, a specialist in corporate parametric re/insurance solutions for climate and emerging risks, has adopted mea Platform’s AI products to enhance automation and data orchestration across its underwriting processes. The implemen...

Posted: Nov 13, 2025

JBA launches high-res US flood model to meet reinsurance demand as data reveals major risk gap

UK-based flood science specialist JBA Risk Management has launched a high-resolution US inland flood model, as new data reveals that almost one in three US properties – 38.6 million buildings – are at risk of flood. JBA has launched th...

Posted: Nov 13, 2025

AM Best upgrades credit ratings of Greenlight Capital Re and subsidiaries

AM Best has upgraded the Financial Strength Ratings of Greenlight Reinsurance, Ltd. (Cayman Islands) and Greenlight Reinsurance Ireland, DAC (Ireland) to A (Excellent) from A– (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings to “a” (Excellent)...

Posted: Nov 13, 2025

ICA urges stronger national resilience to secure the future of the Cyclone Reinsurance Pool

The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA), the representative body for the general insurance industry, has called for greater national investment in disaster resilience and risk reduction to ensure the long-term success of the Cyclone Reinsurance P...

Posted: Nov 13, 2025

Neptune’s revenue rises 31.2% to $44.4m in Q3’25

Neptune Insurance Holdings Inc., the parent company of Neptune Flood Incorporated, reported revenue of $44.4 million for the third quarter of 2025, up 31.2% from $33.8 million in the same period a year earlier. In the quarter, written premiums inc...

Posted: Nov 13, 2025

Deterministic models key for reinsurers to secure better-informed terror strategies: Lockton Re & Bl...

The stability and predictability that have defined terrorism insurance for decades is challenged by a rapidly changing threat landscape, calling into question the validity of long-standing assumptions around terrorism events that underpin scenario...

Posted: Nov 13, 2025

Accelerant’s total revenues climb 74% to $267.4m in Q3’25

Accelerant Holdings, a services and data platform for the specialty insurance market, reported total revenues of $267.4 million for the third quarter of 2025, up 74% from $153.7 million in the same period a year earlier. Among total revenues, the...

Posted: Nov 13, 2025

IDF releases roadmap to expand global insurability and reduce protection gaps

The Insurance Development Forum (IDF), a public-private partnership that brings together the insurance industry, international organisations, and development institutions, has released a new paper titled Increasing Insurability to Close Protection...

Posted: Nov 13, 2025

Talanx posts record €1.96bn net income in 9M’25, raises FY forecast

Talanx Group, the parent of Hannover Re, has reported a record €1.964 billion in group net income for the first nine months of 2025 and is now raising its full-year forecast to over €2.4 billion. Primary Insurance (51%) and Reinsurance (49%) contr...

Posted: Nov 13, 2025

AI is transformative for the reinsurance industry: Swiss Re’s Nikhil da Victoria Lobo

Around the 25th Baden-Baden Reinsurance Meeting, as the market prepares for the key January 1st renewals, Nikhil da Victoria Lobo, Head of P&C Reinsurance for Western & Southern Europe and Middle East & Africa at reinsurer Swiss Re, hi...

Posted: Nov 13, 2025

Markel International names Rohan Davies as MD of new London Market business

Markel Insurance, the insurance division of Markel Group Inc., has announced the appointment of Rohan Davies as Managing Director (MD) of its newly created London Market business. In October 2025, Markel International announced that it will move f...

Posted: Nov 13, 2025

GIC Re reports improved CoR for HY’25 as underwriting loss narrows

General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC Re), the Indian public sector reinsurer, has reported that its combined ratio improved by 3.93% to 107.71% for the half year ending on September 30th, 2025 (HY’25), compared to 111.64% for HY&#8217...

Posted: Nov 13, 2025

Willis appoints new cyber leaders in Asia

Willis, a WTW business, has announced the appointments of Conor Keating as Head of Cyber, Asia, and Carlos Grijalva as Head of Cyber Sales, Asia, effective immediately. Based in Singapore, Keating transitions into his new role from his previous po...

Posted: Nov 13, 2025

European captive insurers show strength and resilience amid global market shifts

Credit rating agency AM Best reports that Europe’s captive insurance sector continues to demonstrate stability and resilience, even as global economic and geopolitical uncertainties persist. The development of new regulatory frameworks across seve...

Posted: Nov 13, 2025

Fidelis posts 30% rise in net income for Q3’25 as underwriting result strengthens

Insurer and reinsurer Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limited generated net income of $130.5 million for the third quarter of 2025, an increase of 30% on the prior year, with an improved underwriting result in both its insurance and reinsurance segment...

Posted: Nov 13, 2025