Reinsurance News
According to a new report from the credit rating agency AM Best, the ongoing US government shutdown has halted the ability of a key federal agency to renew existing flood insurance policies or issue new ones under the National Flood Insurance Prog...
Posted: Oct 14, 2025
Legal & General Group plc (L&G), a financial services group providing insurance, investment management, and retirement solutions, has announced the appointment of Gareth Mee as Chief Executive Officer of Institutional Retirement, effective...
Posted: Oct 14, 2025
Kalepa, a company specialising in AI-powered underwriting solutions, has entered into a partnership with AmRisc, a catastrophe-focused Managing General Agent (MGA) in the US, to scale AmRisc’s underwriting operations. This collaboration follows an...
Posted: Oct 14, 2025
The Texel Group, an independent credit and political risk insurance broker, has announced the appointments of Jamie Stork and Brandon Woo to its Singapore office. Jamie Stork joined the company as an Associate Director on 22nd September. He comes...
Posted: Oct 14, 2025
KRM Reinsurance Brokers Philippines, a re/insurance broker, has appointed Ramon “Mon” Zandueta as its new Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective September 1st, 2025. Zandueta is an industry veteran with four decades of...
Posted: Oct 14, 2025
Africa Specialty Risks (ASR), the pan-African and Middle East-focused re/insurance group, has appointed Elaine Mason as Head of Claims, based in London. In her new role, Mason will lead ASR’s claims function, including furthering claims operations...
Posted: Oct 13, 2025
S&P Global Ratings, a provider of credit ratings, research, and analytics, reports that private credit is increasingly becoming a significant part of North American insurance companies’ investment portfolios. According to S&P, this shift r...
Posted: Oct 13, 2025
AXIS Capital Holdings Limited, a global specialty underwriter and provider of insurance and reinsurance solutions, has announced the appointment of Erik Rasmussen as Head of US Healthcare Reinsurance. Based in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rasmussen will r...
Posted: Oct 13, 2025
Nexus Underwriting, a Brown & Brown subsidiary, has announced the expansion of its Trade Credit operations into Italy, a strategic move that further strengthens the company’s global footprint. The managing general agent (MGA) has a long-standi...
Posted: Oct 13, 2025
Markel Insurance, the insurance division of Markel Group Inc., has announced the appointment of Tom Hillier as Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO), alongside a new structure for its international operations. In his new role, Hillier will be responsib...
Posted: Oct 13, 2025
AM Best, the credit rating agency, states that Brazil’s sweeping reforms to its insurance regulatory framework represent a major institutional shift, steering the country’s insurance market toward greater professionalism, stronger consumer safegua...
Posted: Oct 13, 2025
At the 67th edition of RVS in September, Reinsurance News held its third Monte Carlo Executive Roundtable, during which eight leaders from across the re/insurance industry discussed market trends ahead of the key January 1st, 2026, renewal season....
Posted: Oct 13, 2025
Howden, a global insurance broking group, has named Manuel Perez Head of Europe for Howden Cyber, a role he will take on in addition to his ongoing position as Head of Cyber for Latin America. A cyber risks specialist, Perez brings over ten years...
Posted: Oct 13, 2025
Howden, a global insurance broking group, has named Manuel Perez Head of Europe for Howden Cyber, a role he will take on in addition to his ongoing position as Head of Cyber for Latin America. A cyber risks specialist, Perez brings over ten years...
Posted: Oct 13, 2025
Saoirse Jones of Zurich Insurance and Mathieu Verougstraete of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), both Co-Chairs of the Insurance Development Forum’s Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group, are calling on governments, in...
Posted: Oct 13, 2025
Global reinsurer Ariel Re has announced the appointment of Kelsey Mulder as Head of Research. Mulder joins Ariel Re from Liberty Specialty Markets, where she most recently served as Exposure Management Catastrophe Research Manager. Prior to that,...
Posted: Oct 13, 2025
As the sense of global fragmentation and vulnerability increases, the insurance sector has become a key player in managing emerging risks and to mitigate the impact of a future crisis, according to a recent AXA and Ipsos report. The 12th edition o...
Posted: Oct 13, 2025
Flood Re has urged government, insurers, lenders, and homeowners to join forces to make Property Flood Resilience (PFR) mainstream, warning that simple, affordable measures could protect millions of homes and save the UK economy as much as £740 mi...
Posted: Oct 13, 2025
Global broking business, Brokerslink, has announced the appointment of four new regional managers for Africa, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe, marking a new phase of regional consolidation and growth. For Africa, Enitan Solarin has been appo...
Posted: Oct 13, 2025
Aon, a global insurance and reinsurance broking group, has appointed Michelle Beverely as Chief Broking Officer (CBO) for Commercial Risk and Lucy Gleeson as Head of Products and Facilities, effective immediately. The pair will be based in London,...
Posted: Oct 13, 2025
The Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) has appointed Laurent Nihoul as Chief Executive Officer, effective December 1st, 2025. FERMA stated that his appointment marks the first time a senior figure from the insurance and ri...
Posted: Oct 13, 2025
Andrea Scascighini has been named Chief Underwriting Officer of Swiss Re’s P&C Re Casualty business. Scascighini, who brings extensive experience across analytical, underwriting, and leadership roles, most recently served as Head of Casu...
Posted: Oct 13, 2025
Arch Insurance International, part of Arch Capital Group and a provider of specialty insurance solutions across multiple lines, has announced the appointment of Miriam Reid as Head of Business Solutions. In her new role, Reid will lead strategic o...
Posted: Oct 13, 2025
The US casualty market continues to give mixed perspectives influenced by a number of shifts in the market’s landscape, according to insights gathered by Citizens Bank’s analysts at this year’s RVS ahead of the January 1 reinsurance renewals...
Posted: Oct 13, 2025
HDI Global Insurance Company (HGIC), the US subsidiary of international Corporate & Specialty insurer HDI Global (HDI), has named Ralph Christy as its new Engineering Lines & Construction Lead. Bringing more than 20 years of insurance expe...
Posted: Oct 13, 2025