US P&C insurer Westfield Specialty acquires of Lloyd’s Syndicate 1200
US P&C insurer Westfield Specialty has announced the completion of its acquisition of Lloyd’s of London Syndicate 1200 from Argo Group International Holdings.
US P&C insurer Westfield Specialty has announced the completion of its acquisition of Lloyd’s of London Syndicate 1200 from Argo Group International Holdings.
The most difficult conditions during the recent 1 January 2023 renewals were experienced in the property segment, driven by an evident mismatch in demand and supply
Stone Ridge Asset Management, the New York based asset manager an alternative risk premia focus, including reinsurance & ILS, has provided $100 million in capital
Lloyd’s global specialty (re)insurer MS Amlin has strengthened its Asian reinsurance business by floating a local special purpose reinsurance vehicle (SPRV) with US$45 million
Munich Re has announced that it has selected Verisk’s global risk analytics business, Verisk Maplecroft, to help it enhance human rights due diligence
International Group of P&I Clubs has seen a benign pool claims environment for its 2022/2023 program, but it notes that reinsurance partners have been impacted
Lloyd’s of London will report a combined ratio of around 95% at the year-end of 2022, anticipating the same for 2023
The war in Ukraine and extreme weather events have driven up the cost of reinsurance by as much as 200 per cent in crucial January renewals
Fitch Ratings has released a report suggesting that reinsurers’ underwriting margins after retrocession will expand by 4 percentage points on average in 2023
Reinsurance market made significant strides to improve profitability at the recent January 1 renewals, particularly in underperforming property natural catastrophe business
The reinsurance value chain will work together with insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund managers to bring new cyber reinsurance capacity to this market in 2023
The renewal reinsurance season ran extremely late this year as both reinsurers and cedents worked to establish a new market equilibrium
Global insurance marketplace Lloyd’s of London’s gross written premium (GWP) is expected to reach £48.9 billion by the end of 2022
Atrium, the managing agent for Lloyd’s Syndicate 609, today announced that it has come to the decision, together with the Marine Reinsurance Underwrite
Munich Re has decided to establish an additional Board division. Various primary insurance businesses of the Group that are part of the reinsurance segmen
Global life and health reinsurer RGA, together with their global accelerator RGAX, announced the launch of Plan V Care, a digital cancer-only product designed for women
Tom Haddrill, who has been with Lloyd’s since 2011 and became Asia chief executive this year, will be making a UK comeback to join WTW in early 2023
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has written to local reinsurers asking them to stop including the burning costs rate published by the Insurance Information Bureau (IIB) for fire and engineering risks in their reinsurance treaties.
Fitch Ratings has suggested that the large global reinsurers peer group’s capitalisation remains strong and that earnings have recovered. Insurers in this peer group
AM Best is of the view that the insurance reforms passed in Florida’s most-recent legislative special session will lead to much-needed relief to the state’s homeowners
European B2B2C insurer Wakam, has announced that Wakam’s Syndicate 1347 has received Lloyd’s approval to start underwriting for the 2023 year
Reinsurance pricing continues to be an important topic suggesting 50%+ property cat price increases in the US are a real possibility with the potential that year end renewals
The insurance industry is “perfectly positioned” for “action” to support global carbon dioxide removal and the transition to a net zero economy by following a three-pronged
Munich Re is aiming for a consolidated profit of around €4 billion for the 2023 financial year under the new reporting standard IFRS 17
Reinsurers must increase property cat rates in 2023 to help combat climate change impact, according to EY
Florida’s legislature passed a bill that would create a state-backed reinsurance fund and attempt to ease litigation costs that have pushed a homeowners-insurance market
Lloyd’s has granted in-principle approval to Lime Syndicate Management, in what will be the first managing agency in the market since the Reconstruction and Renewal
Canada Life Re, a provider of reinsurance solutions for life and health, has entered into a structured mortality transaction with Allianz Indonesia, expanding its footprint in Asia
Bermuda reinsurers estimate that they will incur gross claim losses of more than $13 billion in payments to policyholders and cedants in the United States (US)
Historically, jurisdictional insurance laws in the United States governing credit for reinsurance have required non-US reinsurers to post 100% collateral in the US for risks
Munich Re and JiuGe Technology, subsidiary of mobile data and services company FingerMotion, are ready to launch new behavioural rating services platform
There will be a one to two quarter delay in the delivery of some solutions within Lloyd’s of London’s digital transformation project Blueprint Two
The Lloyd’s market’s ability to absorb losses from Hurricane Ian demonstrates just how far the market has come over the last five years in getting to grip with cat exposures
Long term, if the Global Reinsurance Market does not develop more innovative solutions, its role and its relevance to the broader economy may be dramatically diminished
Reinsurance market is expected to present Hull insurers with a new set of difficulties at the forthcoming January renewals
The structure of reinsurance programs could play as important of a role as pricing at the upcoming renewal periods
The movement of interest rates this year has reduced the carrying value of fixed income securities held by insurance companies
Analysts at international insurance broker Howden are forecasting that reinsurance sector returns will rise significantly in the next few years
Goldman Sachs said that reinsurers have historically been a low-beta and defensive sector that outperformed in terms of uncertainty
Munich Re said that the new centre will ‘foster new innovative initiatives’ through facilitating networks with technology providers and industry leaders
This next renewals period is a time for reinsurers to move towards risk and not away from it in order to showcase what the industry does best
Apollo Underwriting is the latest Lloyd’s carrier to enter the cyber market following a partnership with SoftBank-backed MGA and modeling firm Envelop Risk Analytics
Lloyd’s announced that claims to the Lloyd’s market arising from Hurricane Ian are estimated to be in the range of US$2.3bn – US$3bn
Swiss Re Institute has warned of the risk posed to insurance and reinsurance companies by the prospect of inflationary recessions and financial instability
Europe’s insurers and reinsurers wish to reiterate their willingness to continue playing their important role in climate change mitigation and adaptation in support of the goals
German reinsurer Munich Re anticipates a quarterly profit of about EUR 500 mn, despite in Q3 2022 the company registered higher-than-average major-loss expenditure
E+S expects significant improvements in risk-adjusted prices and conditions in property and casualty reinsurance on the back
Global natural disaster events of Q3 2022 caused total economic losses estimated at minimally USD 227 billion – of which USD 99 billion were covered by insurers
Lloyd’s and Aon highlights a number of areas and risks that require further action from the industry to help improve resilience as the war in Ukraine continues
Tremor Technologies, Inc., the leading online reinsurance pricing and placing platform, is pleased to announce that the company has launched its Reinsurer Product Council
JP Morgan have forecast that Swiss Re will incur a net loss of $399 million for the third quarter of 2022, largely due to the impact of Hurricane Ian
Reinsurance market has materially shifted and requires close attention ahead of the January 1st, 2023, renewals
A potential capacity crunch in the reinsurance sector could be one of the key catalysts for further property catastrophe rate rises at the January 2023 renewals
UK regulator the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) is “paying close attention” to the potential for concentration risk due to insurers’ reliance on reinsurance
Against the backdrop of a trend towards more expensive large losses, German reinsurer Hannover Re expects further price increases and improved conditions in property
Global insurance-linked securities (ILS) market remains bogged with prior catastrophe losses as the overall performance of funds deteriorates
Reinsurers are showing a diverging appetite for Florida property catastrophe risk ahead of further anticipated price increases and coverage constraints going into 2023
Fitch Ratings has maintained its global reinsurance market outlook at neutral and expects underlying profitability to remain broadly stable in 2022 and 2023
The German Insurance Association (GDV) has said that natural catastrophe events caused damages of around €3bn in the first half of 2022
Asta, a third-party managing agent at Lloyd’s, announced that the management of Parsyl syndicate-in-a-box 1796 transferred to Asta Managing Agency