Latest Reinsurance Headlines

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PaCRe Exit Eased Tax Scrutiny on Offshore Reinsurers: Third Point Re CEO

Jun 16 2016 // Dan Loeb’s Third Point Reinsurance Ltd. said scrutiny of the industry’s offshore tax advantage has lessened after hedge fund manager John Paulson closed a venture that stood out as an ” outlier” for...

Pro Global Files Company Application Under R.I.’s New Run-Off Reg

Jun 15 2016 // Pro Global Insurance Solutions plc announced that it has become the first company to file an application for a new domestic insurer in Rhode Island to facilitate insurance business transfers (IBT) under the August 2015...

Persistent Soft Market Begins to Hit Reinsurer Stock Prices: A.M. Best

Jun 15 2016 // While global reinsurers are continuing to withstand challenging market conditions, their stock prices, on average, are starting to take a hit as a result of the persistent soft market and its negative effect on top line...

Ongoing Soft Market Tops Reinsurers’ Concerns: Xuber Survey

Jun 14 2016 // Soft market conditions continue to be the biggest concern for the industry, followed by regulation, competition from third party capital, low investment returns, cyber crime and maintaining underwriting discipline,...

Run-Off Specialist Compre to Buy Allianz IARD’s Pool Legacy Business

Jun 14 2016 // Compre, the independent insurance and reinsurance legacy specialist, has agreed to acquire Allianz IARD’s Ridgwell Fox & Partners (RFP) pool legacy reinsurance business for an undisclosed sum.RFP is a reinsurance...

CFOs Must View Their Companies ‘Holistically’: Hamilton’s CFO Reiss

Jun 13 2016 // A successful chief financial officer needs to be collegial, cooperative, highly visible and a strategic thinker who has the ability to view corporate risks holistically, according to Jonathan Reiss, CFO of Bermuda-based...

Bigger Is Better for Lloyd’s Syndicates with Active Cycle Mgmt: S&P

Jun 10 2016 // Benign catastrophe losses, combined with lower and less frequent casualty lines claims, helped Lloyd’s syndicates deliver another strong set of results in 2015, reporting an average combined ratio of 90 percent,...

Pandemics and Climate Change Present Opportunity for Insurers

Jun 9 2016 // The shoe may eventually be placed on the other foot for the U.S.This nation has a long-standing tradition of innovating products and ideas – particularly insurance products – and then exporting them to other countries....

Blanch Appointed President of Florida Flood Insurer TypTap

Jun 7 2016 // HCI Group, Inc. (HCI) has appointed Ted Blanch as president of TypTap Insurance Company, HCI’s new online insurance company.Blanch brings years of industry experience to TypTap, which offers an online platform to...

Solvency II Will Increase Reinsurance Buying Demand: Fitch

Jun 6 2016 // Solvency II will increase insurers’ demand for reinsurance products as they seek to strengthen their capital positions via risk transfer, according to a report published by Fitch Ratings.Reinsurance can help reduce...

People Are Key to a CFO’s Success: QBE’s Group CFO Regan

Jun 6 2016 // When discussing his career as a chief financial officer, Patrick Regan, group chief financial officer for QBE, emphasizes the importance of people and the team the CFO builds.“You’re only as successful as the...

TWIA Expects $4.9B in Funds for 2016 Hurricane Season

Jun 6 2016 // While reinsurance for the 2016 hurricane season hasn’t yet been nailed down, Texas’ insurer of last resort for wind and hail along the Texas coast expects to have around $4.9 billion in funds available for...

Texas Coast Wind Insurer: Position for Hurricane Season Is ‘Strongest-Ever’

Jun 3 2016 // With its reinsurance program now in place, the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) says it is in its strongest-ever position for this year’s hurricane season with $4.9 billion in total funding available to...

Insurer Fossil Fuel Divestment Focus of Washington Climate Change Summit

Jun 2 2016 // Getting insurers to rid themselves of investments in fossil fuels, creating products to deal with climate change and helping the world better understand risk, were among the topics on Wednesday at a summit on the insurance...

Greenberg Facing Trial in New York AG’s Case Tied to AIG Reinsurance Deal

Jun 2 2016 // Former American International Group CEO Maurice “Hank” Greenberg must stand trial over alleged sham transactions, New York’s top court ruled on Thursday, as the long-time financial industry titan failed...

Insurance Rates Unlikely to Rise a Lot Even If Hurricane Season is Above Normal: Fitch

Jun 2 2016 // Hurricane forecasters may be split on whether the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season will be above average or normal, but even a higher level of storms might not boost property insurance prices to levels seen in prior market...

Fitch: Florida Specialist Insurers Largely Untested By Hurricanes

Jun 2 2016 // The majority of Florida’s homeowner specialist insurers have brief histories, and their ability to manage a large catastrophic hurricane is uncertain despite recent strong performance, according to a new report from...

Munich Re America Taps Stuhl for Broker Relations Senior VP Post

Jun 1 2016 // Joe Stuhl has been named senior vice president and broker executive for Munich Reinsurance America’s (US) reinsurance division. Previously Stuhl was a client manager in the reinsurance division and oversaw some of...

Reinsurance Rates Continued Stabilization Trend at June Renewal; Florida Down Just 3.1%: JLT

Jun 1 2016 // Reinsurance rate declines continued to slow at the June 1 renewal, reaffirming a trend of gradual price stabilization that first emerged during last year’s June renewal season, according to reinsurance brokerage JLT...

U.S.-EU Continue Talks on Insurance Regulation Covered Agreement

May 31 2016 // Trade representatives for the United States and the European Union, who met May 24 and 25 to negotiate a bilateral covered agreement on regulations for insurers and reinsurers, on Friday issued a joint statement indicating...