Reinsurance News

Kingstone secures 30% quota share, adds layer to existing XoL reinsurance at renewals

13th January 2022

Kingstone Insurance Company (KICO), a wholly owned subsidiary of P&C insurance holding company, Kingstone Companies, Inc., has finalised a new 30% personal lines quota share reinsurance treaty for 2021-2022, and added another layer of protection to its existing excess of loss (XoL) programme. This time last year, Kingstone terminated its 25% ... Read the full article

Xenia acquires trade credit & surety business from Tysers

13th January 2022

Credit insurance and surety specialist Xenia Broking Group has acquired the UK trade credit and surety business of Tysers Insurance Brokers (Tysers). The transaction was completed on 11th January and marks Xenia’s eighth acquisition to date and fifth in the last nine months, having acquired Peter Hill Credit & Financial ... Read the full article

Obsidian adds David Lockton to Board

13th January 2022

Obsidian Insurance Holdings, Inc. has announced the appointment of insurance industry leader David Lockton to its parent company's Board of Directors. For nearly four decades, Lockton has served as President, CEO, and then Chairman of Lockton Companies, and is currently Lead Director of Lockton, Inc. "Dave Lockton is a tremendous addition to ... Read the full article

Hampden recruits Parhelion CUO as Verto Active Underwriter

13th January 2022

Financial services and Lloyd’s capital adviser Hampden Group has announced the appointment of Chris Sharp as Active Underwriter of its Lloyd’s syndicate, Verto 2689, managed by Asta Managing Agency. Sharp was formerly Chief Underwriting Officer at Parhelion Capital, and Director of Underwriting and Head of Property Reinsurance at Dale Underwriting Partners ... Read the full article

Everest Re promotes Artur Klinger to Head of Intl. Reinsurance

13th January 2022

Bermuda domiciled reinsurer, Everest Re Group, Ltd., has named Artur Klinger, its Managing Director (MD) of Continental Europe, as the new Head of International Reinsurance, reporting to Everest Group Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Head of Reinsurance, Jim Williamson. In his new role, Klinger takes on oversight of the firm's reinsurance ... Read the full article

Enstar raises $500m in subordinated debt issuance

13th January 2022

A subsidiary of legacy specialist, Enstar Group Limited, has raised $500 million through the offering of Fixed-Rate Reset Junior Subordinated Notes. Enstar Finance LLC priced $500 million aggregate principal amount of 5.500% Fixed-Rate Reset Junior Subordinated Notes due 2042, fully and unconditionally guaranteed, on a junior subordinated basis, by its parent. The ... Read the full article

R&Q Accredited and First Underwriting enter £1bn capacity deal

13th January 2022

Bermudian specialist non-life re/insurance investor Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings (R&Q) has announced that its Accredited subsidiary has signed a five-year program management agreement with First Underwriting, a fast-growing UK-based MGA. The agreement includes a targeted capacity of £1bn in gross written premium over the period and will be supported by ... Read the full article

Aviva CFO Jason Windsor to step down

13th January 2022

London-headquartered insurer Aviva has announced that Jason Windsor has resigned from his position as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and as a Director of the Company. Windsor will leave with effect from July 2022 to take up the position of CFO at Persimmon, a British housebuilding company, headquartered in York. Over the next ... Read the full article

Matt Finch takes Finance Director role at Carbon Underwriting

13th January 2022

Carbon Underwriting Limited, the specialist, independent managing general underwriter (MGU) and Lloyd’s syndicate, has announced the appointment of Matt Finch as Finance Director. Finch has almost 25 years of financial services experience and had been undertaking the Finance Director role at Carbon on a contract basis for the last 10 months ... Read the full article

Man Group’s new CAS initiative looks to deliver flexible re/insurance solutions

13th January 2022

Man Group, a technology-empowered active investment management firm, has launched Capital Asset Solutions (CAS) within Man Solutions Limited, a new initiative designed to provide insurers with bespoke and flexible re/insurance solutions with a focus on liabilities and asset management. Predominantly, CAS will focus on the global retirement services and savings market ... Read the full article

WTW forms new Crisis Management unit

13th January 2022

WTW has formed a new Crisis Management unit with the merger of SCR and its Terror and Political Violence teams which will sit within its Financial Solutions Global Line of Business. The new unit will be led Jo Holliday, Managing Director of SCR, and deliver crisis management and contingency risk management ... Read the full article

PRA says more work on climate risks required from many re/insurers

13th January 2022

UK regulator the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has set out its priorities for 2022, which include a renewed focus on the financial risks arising from climate change. The PRA acknowledged that some insurers and reinsurers have made “good progress” in embedding supervisory expectations on climate risk. However, it added that progress has ... Read the full article

Gallagher names Head of Financial Lines for Middle East

13th January 2022

Global re/insurance broker Gallagher has appointed Daniel Miller to lead its financial lines operations for clients in the Middle East. Miller will join Gallagher in April from Aon, where he has worked for the last eight years as Regional Head of Financial and Professional Liability (finpro) for the Middle East. He has ... Read the full article

Duhart to lead AXA XL Specialty Niche business in Americas

13th January 2022

AXA XL Insurance has promoted Maria Duhart to lead its Specialty Niche insurance business in the Americas. She steps into the role of Chief Underwriting Officer for Specialty Niche from her previous role as head of AXA XL's Commercial Bonds business. In her new role, Duhart reports to Donna Nadeau, Chief Underwriting ... Read the full article

HCI shelves proposed TypTap IPO in light of recent market conditions

13th January 2022

HCI Group has shelved the planned U.S. initial public offering (IPO) of its Florida insurtech subsidiary, TypTap Insurance Company, in light of current market conditions. It was announced in August last year that HCI Group had confidentially submitted a draft registration statement for a proposed IPO with the Securities and Exchange ... Read the full article