Latest Reinsurance Headlines

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Rhode Island’s ProTucket Launches First Cell with $35M Surplus Funding

Sep 10 2018 // Pro US Holdings, the sole shareholder and immediate parent of ProTucket Insurance Company – the insurance carrier established in Rhode Island to provide run-off transfer solutions in the U.S. – has contributed...

Why Reinsurance Industry Consolidation Will Continue: Fitch

Sep 10 2018 // As global reinsurance executives gathered in Monte Carlo for their annual Reinsurance Rendezvous, Fitch Ratings said it expects consolidation of the industry will continue.The firm said intense market competition and...

Aon Creates $350M of Cyber Capacity, Launches New Solution for Silent Cyber

Sep 7 2018 // Aon plc is continuing its investment in cyber by creating US$350 million of new reinsurance capacity and launching its silent cyber* solution.Aon’s silent cyber solution is designed to partner with carriers in their...

Bermuda Market to Stay Key Reinsurance Hub Despite U.S. Tax Reform: A.M. Best

Sep 7 2018 // Bermuda will continue to be a key international hub for reinsurance despite being challenged in recent years, most recently by tax reform in the United States, which fundamentally changed how multinational entities are...

Nexus Buys Malaysia-Based Structured Solutions Specialist Huntington Underwriting

Sep 6 2018 // Independent specialty managing general agent Nexus Group has acquired Huntington Underwriting Ltd. (HUL), a structured solutions underwriting manager operating out of Labuan International Business and Financial Centre,...

Sompo International Launches ‘SomPro,’ a Financial & Professional Lines Platform

Sep 6 2018 // Sompo International Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property and casualty re/insurance, announced that the company is launching SomPro, a global financial and professional lines platform encompassing...

Enstar to Acquire Maiden Reinsurance North America

Sep 4 2018 // An Enstar Group subsidiary has agreed to acquire Maiden Reinsurance North America from a subsidiary of Maiden Holdings.The net consideration payable in the transactions is $307.5 million, subject to certain closing...

Aon Promotes Mulligan to Head of Cyber, Foord-Kelcey to Head of Cyber Innovation

Sep 4 2018 // Aon plc has promoted Catherine Mulligan and Luke Foord-Kelcey within its Reinsurance Solutions business to strengthen its suite of cyber products for insurers.As global head of Cyber for Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions...

French Reinsurer SCOR Spurns $9.6B Acquisition Offer from Insurer Covea

Sep 4 2018 // French reinsurer SCOR SE spurned an 8.3-billion-euro ($9.6 billion) unsolicited takeover offer from its biggest shareholder, Covea, which said it’s still interested in pursuing a deal. SCOR shares climbed the most in...

A Tale of Two Floridas: Hurricane Irma’s Belated Impact on Reinsurers

Sep 3 2018 // Reinsurers expressed different views of loss developments related to Hurricane Irma, when executives reviewed the impact of the Florida event on second-quarter earnings reports last month.Everest Re was among those...

ILS Issuance in H1 Tops $7B, Reflecting Capital Markets’ Re/Insurance Appetite: Swiss Re

Aug 31 2018 // The first half of 2018 aptly demonstrated that the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market has an undiminished appetite to provide re/insurance protection – despite last year’s expensive insured natural...

TransRe Buys Certain Renewal Rights from Maiden Re; Talks to Sell Maiden Re Advance

Aug 30 2018 // TransRe has acquired the exclusive renewal quotation rights to all of Maiden Reinsurance North America’s U.S. treaty customers from their diversified business. TransRe has also hired the U.S. treaty team from Maiden...

Insurers Increasingly Seek Legacy Transfers to Shed Long-Tail Liabilities

Aug 29 2018 // Several recent reserve cover deals—including the single-largest reinsurance transaction on record—demonstrate a growing interest on the part of insurers to shed their long-tail liabilities.A sharp uptick in reserve...

P/C Insurance Industry Delivered Improved Results in First Half

Aug 29 2018 // Mid-year results for U.S. property/casualty insurers and reinsurers show they are on the mend following a trying 2017, according to Fitch Ratings.Operating performance moderately improved for P/C (re)insurers during the...

Swiss Re Names Higginbotham as CEO Reinsurance EMEA, Succeeding Henchoz

Aug 24 2018 // Swiss Re announced that Russell Higginbotham has been appointed CEO Reinsurance EMEA and regional president EMEA and member of the group executive committee, effective Sept. 1, 2018.Higginbotham succeeds Jean-Jacques...

Guy Carpenter Partners with RPC Consulting to Offer Re/Insurance Analytic Platform

Aug 22 2018 // Guy Carpenter & Co., the global risk and reinsurance specialist and wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Cos., announced a multi-year, global strategic partnership with Reynolds Porter Chamberlain Consulting...

A Tale of Two Floridas: Hurricane Irma’s Belated Impact on Reinsurers

Aug 21 2018 // Everest Re was among those negatively impacted, with a preannounced net reserve charge of $250 million after taxes pushing net income down to $69.9 million, a figure more than 70 percent lower than last year’s...

ACORD Launches Data Toolkit for London Market Reinsurance, Big Commercial Risks

Aug 17 2018 // ACORD, the global standards body for the insurance industry, has launched an Adoption Toolkit to support the application of data standards for global reinsurance and large commercial risks in the London market.“The...

Capsicum Re’s Cyber Team Taps Paragon’s Goring as Broker, BMS’ Naidu as Wordings Director

Aug 15 2018 // Capsicum Re, the London-based specialist reinsurance broker, announced two new hires to its cyber division. Jasper Goring joins as a cyber broker and Prab Naidu was appointed as wordings director, both with immediate...

Extraordinary Re’s Extraordinary Idea for Trading Insurance Risks Like Stocks

Aug 15 2018 // Imagine there’s a way for institutional investors to trade insurance risks much like they trade stocks. Well, imagine no more. A new and unique reinsurer, Extraordinary Re, has hit upon the novel idea of creating a...