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Renewal rate increases imply dramatically better returns: KBW
6th January 2022
Analysts at KBW have said that rate increases for property and casualty business at the January 1 reinsurance renewals imply “dramatically improved expected returns” for reinsurers. Although individual cedents' rate changes varied widely, property catastrophe reinsurance rate increases were measured at around 9% globally and 6.5% in the US, according to ... Read the full article
Berkshire Hathaway GUARD selects new commercial fleet telematics program
11th December 2020
Berkshire Hathaway GUARD, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett’s global re/insurer, has selected IMS to provide a new commercial fleet insurance program. TrackMRI (Monitor, React, Improve) is a commercial fleet insurance telematics solution that includes device logistics support, data collection, scoring, fleet behaviour assessment and program analytics. As part of the program, IMS ... Read the full article
McGill & Partners highlights “dramatic” early growth, names key hires
18th December 2019
Specialty risk solutions business McGill & Partners, founded this year by insurance broking veteran Steve McGill, has grown its employee headcount from five to 134 and is set to oversee $250 million of premium flow going into 2020. The build-out and growth of the business was financed through an initial ... Read the full article
Duck Creek partnership targets telematic solutions for P&C insurers
15th November 2019
Duck Creek Technologies, a global provider of P&C industry insurance software, is partnering with mobile telematics and analytics firm Cambridge Mobile Telematics. The partnership is aimed at allowing Duck Creek’s customers to rapidly deploy mobile telematics-based business strategies into their business. Insurers will be able to create connected insurance business models such ... Read the full article
Swiss Re and Pioneer co-develop innovative telematics solution
17th October 2019
Global reinsurance giant Swiss Re has collaborated with car electronics company Pioneer to develop a first-of-its-kind telematics solution designed to provide insurers with more and improved personalised risk assessment. The innovative, co-developed solution is to be included in Swiss Re's telematics suite and as a result of the new partnership, the ... Read the full article
Berkshire Hathaway’s GEICO launches first telematics program
31st July 2019
GEICO, the auto insurance arm of reinsurance and investments giant Berkshire Hathaway, has launched and is trialling its first telematics product, named DriveEasy. The push into telematics based solutions to provide analytics and intelligence on driver performance has likely been driven by a desire to reign in claims costs, while charging ... Read the full article
Tremor places programmatic swap deal for parametric cat risk
21st May 2019
Tremor Technologies, the programmatic risk transfer platform, has priced and placed the first ever programmatic parametric swap transaction in insurance form. The insurtech start-up has already priced and placed a number of catastrophe reinsurance programs beginning at the end of 2018, but has moved into new territory with this latest deal. Tremor ... Read the full article
Munich Re enters global telematics partnership with The Floow
20th May 2019
Munich Re has entered into a new global partnership with The Floow, a provider of telematics solutions and a data refinery for re/insurers and manufacturers in the motor industry. Under the arrangement, The Floow’s portfolio of solutions and capabilities can be provided to insurance clients around the world, while also strengthening ... Read the full article
USAA joins Roost’s smart-home telematics program
21st March 2019
USAA, a provider of insurance for U.S military personnel, has joined the Home Telematics Program (HTP) of Roost, a California-based company that specialises in smart-home technology. Operating in partnership with broker Willis Towers Watson, the HTP applies advanced analytics to produce insights regarding the effect of home telematics on loss mitigation ... Read the full article
AIG dramatically shifts reinsurance use to better realise strategic benefits
15th February 2019
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of global insurer AIG's General Insurance unit, Peter Zaffino, has said that the company is "extremely pleased" with the support it received from the reinsurance market as it continues to dramatically shift its utilisation of reinsurance protection. AIG's reinsurance use has, in recent times, been a ... Read the full article
Tremor completes reinsurance auction using programmatic marketplace
19th December 2018
Tremor Technologies, a venture-backed programmatic risk transfer platform, has announced the successful pricing and placement of a large panel property catastrophe program to what it describes as a top 20 U.S property and casualty insurance company. The Connecticut based start-up says nearly 50 reinsurers from the traditional U.S, Bermuda, Lloyd’s, European ... Read the full article
Willis Towers Watson extends pricing software to telematics start-up Ticker
12th November 2018
Global insurance and reinsurance broker Willis Towers Watson (WTW) is supplying the latest version of its Radar pricing software to Ticker, a new telematics insurer due to launch in early 2019. WTW said that its Radar Live and Radar Base solutions will enable Ticker to deliver more accurate decisions in pricing ... Read the full article
U.S. commercial auto remains problematic: Fitch
17th September 2018
In a report by Fitch Ratings that examined recent commercial auto performance and market share movement for the largest U.S. commercial auto writers, only four of the top 15 companies reported overall underwriting profitability in the last five years. However, most of the largest underwriters displayed moderate improvement in results, with 10 ... Read the full article
Tremor Technologies launches programmatic reinsurance marketplace
14th August 2018
Tremor Technologies, Inc., a venture-backed start-up based in Greenwich, Connecticut, has announced that its programmatic risk placement marketplace is now fully operational, with significant buyers and sellers of reinsurance in place. The reinsurance trading platform is designed to establish fair and efficient market prices for reinsurance risks and programs, powered by ... Read the full article
Dramatic shift in reinsurance M&A trends, says Willis Re CEO Kent
5th April 2018
In the company’s latest reinsurance renewals report, Willis Re’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), James Kent, observed a dynamic change in reinsurance mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity as large primary carriers re-enter the reinsurance market. He suggested that new distribution models are causing the greatest disruption to major non-life primary companies with ... Read the full article