Reinsurance News
LIIBA, the London and International Insurance Brokers’ Association, appointed seven new Directors in 2025, broadening member representation, a move that reflects new Articles of Association adopted in March. The changes were aimed at broadening th...
Posted: Jan 26, 2026
Brit Group Holdings Limited, a specialty insurer and reinsurer operating across Lloyd’s, the London market and internationally, has announced FI Cyber Max, a new integrated Cyber and Financial Institutions (FI) consortium. Developed to support lar...
Posted: Jan 26, 2026
Marsh Risk, an insurance broker, risk advisor, and a business of Marsh, has added significant capacity to Nimbus, its large-scale data centre construction insurance facility, which now offers limits of up to $2.7 billion, including delay in start-...
Posted: Jan 26, 2026
Global insurer AXA Hong Kong and Macau has successfully completed the re-domiciliation of AXA China Region Insurance Company (Bermuda) Limited from Bermuda to Hong Kong. This was done to comply with the re-domiciliation regime introduced by the Ho...
Posted: Jan 26, 2026
PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organisation that provides industry-wide catastrophe insurance data, has published its fourth and final industry loss estimate for Windstorm Éowyn, which affected the British Isles on 24 and 25 January 2025, wi...
Posted: Jan 26, 2026
Specialist insurance provider CFC has appointed Christyn Yoast as Global Head of Commercial to drive the group’s commercial strategy across its growing international footprint. Yoast is expected to start in January 2026 and will be based in New Yo...
Posted: Jan 26, 2026
Concirrus, provider of AI-centric insurance solutions, has strategically partnered with Diesta, the dedicated payment operations platform built for intermediated insurance, to deliver a unified, quote-to-cash solution. This collaboration merges Co...
Posted: Jan 26, 2026
Swiss Re, a global provider of reinsurance, insurance, and risk solutions, has appointed Alexander White as Senior Casualty Treaty Underwriter for Australia. White joins the reinsurer with nearly 14 years of industry experience. Most recently, he...
Posted: Jan 26, 2026
The US property & casualty (P&C) insurance industry is forecast to have its lowest net combined ratio (NCR) in over a decade for the full year 2025, despite the devastating California wildfires in Q1’25, supported by an Atlantic hurricane...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Hamilton Insurance Group, Ltd., an international specialty insurance and reinsurance group, has announced the appointment of Michelle Li as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Hamilton Global Specialty, its underwriting platform headquartered in Lond...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Skyward Group has expanded Skyward Specialty’s Life Sciences insurance solution by leveraging Apollo’s Lloyd’s Syndicate 1969, to offer enhanced multinational placements for US-domiciled life sciences companies with international operations. Skywa...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Argenta, a Lloyd’s insurer, has appointed Alexandra Hayes as Head of Group Strategy & Execution/Chief of Staff and Sweta Tzimopoulos as Chief Distribution Officer. The two appointments aim to strengthen the insurer’s leadership team and reflec...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
AXA XL, the property and casualty division of global insurer AXA Group, has announced the appointment of Samantha Hazlewood as Head of AXA Group Partnerships and Strategic Client Management for AXA XL, effective 1st February 2026. In her new role,...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
With the re/insurance market facing compounding pressures in 2026, Capgemini’s Luca Russignan has suggested the gap is widening between those who execute and those who merely experiment, as AI’s double-edged nature rewards true trailblazers who ar...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Trawick International Limited, a member of Trawick Holdings, a privately owned specialty insurance group offering travel and niche insurance products worldwide, has confirmed the launch of a Lloyd’s registered brokerage within the group. The broke...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Water risk intelligence firm Fathom has launched FathomDEM+, a global terrain dataset designed to provide a single, uniform, and independently benchmarked view of terrain worldwide, enhancing risk analysis. The programme aims to underpin the next...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Rachel Turk, Chief of Market Performance at Lloyd’s of London, classifies the current reinsurance market as one that is softening, but not soft, noting that it is on a knife edge and could reverse following a major loss event. Speaking at Fitch Ra...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
RLI Insurance Company reduced its catastrophe reinsurance limit by $150 million for 2026 at the January renewals, citing lower exposure and continued soft conditions, which it described as a “buyer’s market” for property. Jen Klobnak, Chief Operat...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Edward Sheppard is set to lead the CP&I portfolio and accelerate the global Specialty growth strategy of AI12, a global specialist insurance and reinsurance brokerage, as Chief Broking Officer. The appointment follows AI12’s authorisation by t...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Price Forbes Re, an independent reinsurance broker, has announced the appointments of Alexander Ehrlich as Senior Vice President, Life & Health reinsurance, and Younkyung Cho as Vice President, Business Development Actuary. Both Ehrlich and Ch...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
MS Transverse, a hybrid fronting carrier that works with MGAs and programme administrators across the United States, has recently announced that Tom McGrath has joined the company as Senior Vice President, Head of Program Underwriting. McGrath wil...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Renaud Guidée, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of property and casualty reinsurer AXA XL Reinsurance, has said that in the current reinsurance market environment, which he describes as a “fair and healthy balance” between supply and dema...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
According to new data from the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA), extreme weather events have resulted in almost $3.5 billion in insured losses from 264,000 claims in 2025. Of these losses, the costliest was Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred, which ac...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Fidelis Insurance Bermuda Limited (FIBL), part of Fidelis Insurance Group, has successfully placed a new catastrophe bond, providing its parent with annual aggregate, industry-loss triggered protection against losses from earthquakes affecting the...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026
Hannover Re, a global reinsurer operating across property and casualty, life, and health lines, has announced the appointment of Prateek Maheshwari as Chief Financial Officer of its India Branch. Maheshwari has been part of Hannover Re since 2017,...
Posted: Jan 23, 2026