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#1 Liability Reinsurance Crisis Could Be Looming, TransRe CEO Says

Jun 7 2024 // “There could be a liability crisis in reinsurance in a couple of years,” a reinsurance executive predicted this week.Ken Brandt, chair, president and chief executive officer of TransRe, offered the assessment...

#2 Experts Predict Impacts of $25B+ Milton Hit to Insurers, Reinsurers

Oct 9 2024 // A wide cone of uncertainty surrounds insurance experts’ pre-landfall predictions about the state of the industry that will prevail in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, with most viewing it as a $20 billion-plus loss...

#3 What Happened to Reinsurance ‘Class of 2023’? Hard Market Defies Age-Old Patterns.

Jul 12 2024 // Catastrophic events, such as major hurricanes and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, traditionally have led to hard markets that in turn drove the formation of startup reinsurers to fill capacity needs. Reinsurers launched in...

#4 Russia Reinsurer Backs Domestic Carriers to Get Indian Marine Insurance Permits

Apr 26 2024 // Russia’s state-owned reinsurer has given financial backing to three Russian insurance firms, allowing them to get Indian approval to provide marine insurance cover to tankers, two sources said, as Moscow seeks to...

#5 Predictive Model Delivers Insights as Insurers, Reinsurers Brace for More Civil Unrest

Oct 9 2024 // Executive Summary: Insurers and reinsurers are responding to heightened risks of civil unrest with better calculations of their probable maximum losses, careful risk pricing, clear contractual wordings, and by using new...

#6 Federal Reinsurance Backstop for Catastrophes: APCIA Says No Thanks

Jan 16 2024 // Federal lawmakers introduced a bill to create a federal natural catastrophe backstop recently, reacting to insurers’ issues with growing private reinsurance costs. But a trade group for carriers suggested that a...

#7 Castle Key Defends 53.5% Condo Rate Hike, Blames Reinsurance, Ian, Rapid Growth

Feb 22 2024 // When Allstate’s Florida unit, Castle Key Indemnity Co., entered the surging condominium insurance market in 2020, it looked like it had made a smart bet: Within two years, the carrier had added no fewer than 123,000...

#8 ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ on Florida: Defense Costs Down, but Reinsurance Still a Drag

May 31 2024 // Analysts with the AM Best financial rating firm and other stakeholders are cautiously optimistic about the resurrection of the Florida property insurance market, 18 months after state lawmakers approved monumental...

#9 Casualty Reinsurance Renewals See Modest Price Hikes Despite Social Inflation: AM Best

Feb 15 2024 // Reinsurers in general maintained adequate capacity for casualty programs, despite concerns about social inflation and some recent reserve strengthening actions, according to a report from AM Best.For reinsurers, a...

#10 Casualty Reinsurance Renewals See Modest Price Hikes Despite Social Inflation: AM Best

Mar 4 2024 // Reinsurers in general maintained adequate capacity for casualty programs, despite concerns about social inflation and some recent reserve strengthening actions, according to a report from AM Best.For reinsurers, a...

#11 Update: Milton’s 152,000 Claims So Far Mean New Pressure on Reinsurance, Rate Hikes

Oct 15 2024 // Property Insurance claims from Hurricane Milton had topped more than 152,180 by Tuesday, with some $1.9 billion in estimated insured losses. That’s already more than the claims and losses reported for Helene, which...

#12 Hard Reinsurance Prices Likely to Last Longer Than in Previous Market Cycles: Report

Aug 15 2024 // Hard reinsurance pricing conditions are likely to last longer than in previous market cycles mainly due to persistently high claims activity from the accumulation of medium-sized disaster losses and secondary perils,...

#13 Reinsurers’ Appetite for Natural Catastrophe Risks Grows – But Discipline Remains

Sep 4 2024 // Top reinsurers are showing increasing – but disciplined – appetite for natural catastrophe risks as a result of rising demand, better pricing, more favorable terms and conditions, and sound investment income, according...

#14 TWIA Anticipates Higher Reinsurance Spending in 2025

Dec 17 2024 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association expects to spend more on reinsurance in 2025 to account for projected policy count and exposure growth and losses to the association’s catastrophe reserve trust fund (CRTF)...

#15 AIG CEO Zaffino on Approach to Catastrophe Losses in Today’s Reinsurance Market

Nov 6 2024 // American International Group CEO Peter Zaffino said he expects the reinsurance market’s attachment points to remain on top of losses generated by the frequency and severity of natural catastrophes.Losses will instead...

#16 Reinsurance Buyers With Good Portfolio Stories See Better Renewal Outcomes: Brokers

Jan 7 2025 // Reinsurance buyers generally found ample capacity during the January renewals as well as increased reinsurer appetite, which led to risk-adjusted rate reductions and improved terms and conditions for clients that could...

#17 Reinsurers’ Appetite Grows During Mid-Year Renewals but Discipline Remains: Brokers

Jul 8 2024 // Reinsurance buyers generally saw positive outcomes during the mid-year renewals, finding adequate capacity to meet cedents’ increasing demand for protection — in both property and casualty, according to three...

#18 Viewpoint: Reinsurers Reach Peak Performance as Market Stabilizes; M&A on Hold

Sep 9 2024 // The reinsurance market has reached an equilibrium, with increased capital supply from accumulated earnings meeting higher demand for reinsurance protection from cedents. As such, margins will peak in 2024, although...

#19 California Commissioner Issues Regulation to Allow Reinsurance in Ratemaking

Dec 30 2024 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Monday announced what he is calling the final step in his efforts to help the state’s ailing homeowners insurance market with the Net Cost of Reinsurance in...

#20 Universal Says it Completed Reinsurance Program With Only a Slight Bump in Cost

Jun 3 2024 // Universal Insurance Holdings, the publicly traded parent of one of Florida’s largest property insurers, said it has completed its reinsurance program for its two subsidiaries ahead of the June 1 renewal.“For...